A.C. Lee, Postmodern Velázquez and a ‘Hip-Hop Nutcracker’, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s essay on Velázquez’s baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,” he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that would bloom into postmodernism. That blossom continues to flower. “Las Meninas Renacen de Noche …
Jason Maxwell, Killing Yourself to Live: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Autoimmunity Paradigm, Cultural Critique, Number 88, Fall 2014, pp. 160-186 10.1353/cul.2014.0038 Further info In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Since the English translation first appeared in 2008, Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics has become an object of …
Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014, pages 433-442 Further info Link to full paper on academia.edu Abstract This lecture evaluates the claim made by one of …
Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are revisable once the book referenced in the Zamora interview is published). Daniel Zamora’s original interview…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve been away, but several people have been sending me links to a recent string of articles on Foucault’s supposed sympathies to neoliberalism. The start of the debate – in English at least – was the translation of an interview with Daniel Zamora at Jacobin. The interview relates to a…
Ahmad Mohammed Bani Salameh, Foucault’s Descending Individuation: The Unprivileged Under Panoptic Gaze in Shakespeare and Godwin, Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, Vol 41, No 3 (2014) Update October 2025: Journal site not connecting. Link above is to the listing of the article on ResearchGate Abstract This paper presents new critical insights into two selected literary …
The recent interview with Daniel Zamora on neoliberalism is causing quite a stir in the English language world at least. Brian Doherty, Concerned Leftists Rediscover Michel Foucault Might Not Have Been As Anti-Market as They’d Like on the reason.com site Daniel W. Drezner, Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend, on the Washington Post …
Élisabeth Roudinesco: The Living Thought of Michel Foucault , Verso Books site, 13 November 2014 Élisabeth Roudinesco, author of Lacan: In Spite of Everything, Jacques Lacan & Co. and Madness and Revolution, among many others, on the writing of Michel Foucault, written for Le Monde in May: Thirty years after his death, Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is famed the world …
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Politics. A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Nov 2014 Further info A clear and critical account of Foucault’s political thought: what he said, how it’s been used and its influence today This book surveys Michel Foucault’s thought in the context of his life and times, utilising the latest primary …
Thomas J. Catlaw, Recovering Ethical-Political Action in Government: An Introduction to the Symposium — Foucault’s Last Lectures and Their Implications for Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 36(2), 2014, 157-174 Further info Abstract: An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including democratic political theory of political theorist …
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