Michel Foucault’s Death Valley Trip Heather Dundas 20th March 2015 | 17:30 – 18:15 Conference Paper, audio and podcast on Voice Republic Heather Dundas is a Russell Fellow and a candidate for the Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she is writing her dissertation on the intersection of …
Kordela, A.K. Monsters of biopower: Terror(ism) and horror in the era of affect (2016) Philosophy Today, 60 (1), pp. 193-205. DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2016113104 Abstract This paper argues that today the true source of terror in the economico-bio-politically advanced countries of global capitalism lies in biopower’s own constitution as a normative field (the protection of life) that …
Sokhi-Bulley, B. Re-reading the Riots: Counter-Conduct in London 2011 (2016) Global Society, pp. 1-20. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2016.1143348 Abstract The riots that took place in England in August 2011 have widely been described as destructive, senseless and without purpose. This article, taking inspiration from Michel Foucault’s later work on revolt as counter-conduct, argues for …
While I had made some changes to the manuscript after submission, and again after receiving the reports, on Sunday evening I finished four long days of thoroughly revising the text and resubmitted it to the publisher.
Just as I was beginning the review process for the second book I received a very nice letter from Daniel Defert, Foucault’s long-term partner, saying how much he’d liked Foucault’s Last Decade. This was obviously a wonderful thing to receive, and gave me a great motivation to finish up this second study.
The key changes are to the Introduction, which is restructured and some parts extensively revised. I wrote a bit about the work here and here. I think the Introduction now more clearly sets up the argument, approach and sources of the work. I also made lots of changes through the text, and added some sentences to the Conclusion. While the reports…
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Berthold Molden, Resistant pasts versus mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory (2016) Memory Studies, 9 (2), pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015596014 Abstract The politics of history and memory in any society are determined by the relations of forces between hegemonic master narratives, defiant counter-memories, and silent majorities whose historical experience is rarely articulated in …
Journée d’études internationale MICHEL FOUCAULT ET LA SUBJECTIVATION Organisée par mf / materiali foucaultiani (Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli) avec le soutien de l’EA 4395 « Lettres, Idées, Savoirs » de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil 1er juin 2016, 9h – 18h30 Université Paris-Est Créteil, Salle des Thèses Argumentaire Cette journée d’études internationale se …
Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie ED 280 Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne Institut des sciences Juridique & Philosophique de la Sorbonne UMR 8103 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Programme 2èmes Journées d’études Epistémologie Historique: une histoire du présent Historical Epistemology: a history of the present 19-20-21 mai 2016 Inscriptions sur https://episthist.hypotheses.org/ Jeudi 19 mai Salle …
Yngfalk, C. Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2016) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19 (3), pp. 275-295. DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State …
Moore, F. ‘A band of public-spirited women’: Middle-class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918 (2016) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41 (2), pp. 149-162. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12114 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal …
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