Welcome to Cefos
Center for Foucauldian Studies, Gender and History of Subjectivities
Our objective is to foster research by bringing together researchers and scholars of Michel Foucault’s work, in different areas of knowledge, providing a space for academic discussion and intellectual collaboration.
Academic Publications
Learn about the research conducted at the center affiliated with IFCH-Unicamp
We foster critical examination of topics such as gender, race, sexuality, subjectivity, art, power, biopolitics, governmentality, and counter-conducts, among others, which point toward a critique of the present.
Critique of the present
Publications
Living time otherwise: Foucault and the politics of subjectivity
In such frightening times of neoliberal governmentality, the commitment to libertarian, antiracist, playful, and phyllogenous ways of life, to be (re)invented, brings us hope and becomes a necessity, for, as repeating what is already known: the struggle continues!
Publications
Neoliberalism, feminisms, and counter-conducts: Foucauldian perspectives
In what manner has the rapid expansion of neoliberalism worldwide affected the lives of all of us, and especially of women, who are generally more exploited than men? This book presents Michel Foucault’s distinctive reading of neoliberalism.
Publications
Landscapes and threads: gender between history and art
The book discusses the possibilities opened up by the writing and art produced by women, covering topics that range from the works of Artemisia Gentileschi in the seventeenth century to those of Louise Bourgeois and the Brazilian artists Ana Miguel, Rosana Paulino, and Cristina Salgado.
