Kristina Vera-Phillips, (2025), I Would Rather Die: Postcolonial Analysis of Rebellion Speeches in Star Wars: Andor. The Journal of Popular Culture, 58: 267-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70003 ABSTRACT In Star Wars: Andor, the choice for prisoners of Narkina 5 was clear: freedom or death. Two critical speeches from the Narkina 5 prison episodes demonstrate how to disrupt the …
Hentyle Yapp, “Not To Be Governed Like This”: Ai Weiwei, Foucault, and Illiberal Representation, Public Culture, 11 February 2026. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12175774 Abstract In expressing critique, the main model for understanding the merits of such expressions is through a liberal democratic tradition with its ideas of free speech. Regardless of whether discontent is expressed through aesthetic or …
David M. Halperin, Foucault’s Queer Critique, In The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies, ed. Melissa E. Sanchez, Routledge 2025. A preliminary version of this chapter can be found online here. First paragraphs (extract) Critique has fallen out of favor lately among exponents of queer theory as well as among participants in the recent debates …
Antoinette Rouvroy, Thomas Berns, Translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht (2013). Algorithmic Governmentality and Prospects of Emancipation Disparateness as a Precondition for Individuation Through Relationships? Réseaux, No 177(1), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3917/res.177.0163. Extract The new opportunities for statistical aggregation, analysis and correlation afforded by big data are taking us away from traditional statistical perspectives focused on the average man …
Antoinette Rouvroy, The end(s) of critique. Data behaviourism versus due process. In Mireille Hildebrandt, Katja de Vries (Eds.). (2013). Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (1st ed.). Routledge. Book https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203427644 See also this post Extract Operations of collection, processing and structuration of data for purposes …
Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car, Literary Hub, 13 February 2026. Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization One day last summer, at my parents’ house on the east coast of Sweden, my dad says he wants to show me something. He pulls out a piece …
Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de FrancePar Michel Foucault, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Paul Veyne, Raisons politiques 2025/4 n° 100, Pages 15 à 52 https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.100.0015 Texte établi à partir d’une discussion d’environ deux heures, enregistrée et conservée par François Ewald, assistant de Michel Foucault entre 1976 et 1984 par Michel …
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