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40 years after his death Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories as “incoherent”, find themselves in a world wallpapered with Foucauldian terms like “discourse”, “power-knowledge”, “biopower”, and “governmentality”.

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Left is Not Woke: a philosopher's plea for universalism and 'progress' is a frustrating polemic

Some years ago I was surprised to come across a person whose politics I knew to be conservative at a Greens fundraiser. When I asked him why he was there, he said he supported any gay candidate, irrespective of party.

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The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk review – ‘PC gone mad’ revisited

A befuddled takedown of progressive thought

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The ‘dole-bludger’ myth can die now — the real cheats were highly paid public servants

The royal commission made clear what we already knew: the only dangers to the welfare system are public servants and policy makers.

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Friday essay: Stan Grant on how tyrants use the language of germ warfare – and COVID has enabled them

It is 2019. There is a virus lurking in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is warning that if it is not contained, it could infect the entire country. It could turn the country upside down. Tear at the social fabric. The CCP’s dream of harmony cannot withstand this. So…

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The Best Minds review – rich examination of madness and the way the west deals with it

Jonathan Rosen’s heart-rending, thoughtful memoir sheds light on his childhood friend’s schizophrenia and attributes his shocking decline to America’s politicised mental health system

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Surveillance in India: Gujarat backs it, Punjab hates it, some don’t even know there’s a right to privacy

What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘surveillance’? CCTV cameras? For beginners, that’s one way to say: “You are being watched.” Always.

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On the Adamant review – Berlin winner offers art and soul aboard a floating Parisian day-care centre

Nicolas Philibert’s warm and sympathetic documentary about a boat for mental-health patients on the Seine is a worthy winner of the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear

The Guardian - UK

Writing is a 'questionable business', but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?

In June of last year, the Guardian revealed that John Hughes’ Miles Franklin-longlisted novel The Dogs contained material lifted from The Unwomanly Face of War, a book by Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. When approached about this, Hughes apologised for the transgression, describing the plagiarism as unintentional.

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Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

Why I believe the truth to be like an onion

Since the dawn of philosophical knowledge, the existence of truth has been debated. We all talk about the truth. We all ask for the truth. We demand it, even if we sometimes deny its existence. This article will attempt to give another view of what, for now, I believe to…

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The book that changed me: how Pierre Hadot's Philosophy as a Way of Life taught me to 'love a few old truths'

The most life-changing books can seem like they have always been there. What they say may seem obvious, once we’ve read them. But that’s only because they’ve reshaped how we look at things.

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The Anglican split: why has sexuality become so important to conservative Christians?

The newly formed “Diocese of the Southern Cross” has broken away from the Anglican Church of Australia to form a denomination committed to a highly conservative position on sexuality and marriage equality.

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Thailand's Big Brother is upping the ante

In the late 18th century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham visited his younger brother, Samuel, in Russia, who arranged unskilled factory workers in a circle so that he could supervise them. Inspired by this principle, Bentham developed "the panopticon", an inspection tower surrounded by cells. Its uniqueness was that it enabled…

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Sex, lies and Hegel: did the intimate lives of philosophers shape their ideas?

How did the intimate lives of major philosophers shape their ideas? Did their closest relationships with families, spouses, life partners and secret lovers influence their philosophies?

Reason

It's the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don't Know What Neoliberalism Is

Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.

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How Saffron Supremacists are using religion to polarise India

Interrogating the mechanics of power in security, territory and population, French philosopher Michel Foucault coined the term “governmentality” to explain how governments try to produce citizens who obediently follow policies and practices through which subjects are governed. In the modern day, it translates to the state legitimising its power through…

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