Kendall R. Phillips The Event of Dissension: Reconsidering the Possibilities of Dissent (2015) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101 (1), pp. 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2015.994899 Abstract Dissent emerges out of unique prior conditions in which the coherence of dominant discourses is momentarily opened for contest. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, these conditions are conceptualized through the …
Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 April 2015 Editor’s note: My excuse for posting this excellent analysis of the parlous state of the contemporary university, which readers of this blog who are employed by universities will no doubt recognise only too well, is that Eagleton does in …
van Drenth, A. Sensorial experiences and childhood: nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy (2015) Paedagogica Historica, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2015.1019711 Abstract Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this …
SÉMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein et Daniele Lorenzini Samedi 18 avril 2015, 10h30 – 12h30 Judith REVEL (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre) “Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty : une ontologie politique” Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande
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“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the strategic programming of individuals’ activity” (Foucault, M. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège…
Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 Political Science | Philosophy $29.95 | £20.05 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6 296 pp. | 6 x 8 Available January 2015 Zone books Also available from MIT Press Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and …
Booked #3: What Exactly is Neoliberalism? Timothy Shenk ▪ Dissent, April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing …
La gauche face au djihadisme: les yeux grands fermés LE MONDE | 03.03.2015 | Par Jean Birnbaum The complete article can be found on the Comité Laicité République site. (Thanks to Mauricio for this link) En 1978, le philosophe Michel Foucault arrive en Iran pour y effectuer un reportage sur la révolution islamique. Envoyé par …
Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a form of political pastorate, did not exist in ancient Greece, he did take the view, following Hegel, that the ancient …
The Islamic State’s Atrocities—and Ours John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus on March 5, 2015 This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. The description of the death of Robert-Francois Damiens, the man who attempted to kill Louis XV, is not for the faint-hearted. On March 2, 1757, in …
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