From the House of the Dead review – formidable performances humanise Janáček’s vision of hell | Music | The Guardian Tim Ashley Fri 9 Mar 2018 From the House of the Dead is at the Royal Opera House, London, until 24 March. Box office: 020-7304 4000. Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s From the …
Josh Jones, The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972-2018) | Open Culture, 9 March 2018 Extract Radical Philosophy has published essays and interviews with nearly all of the big names in academic philosophy on the left—from Marxists, to post-structuralists, to post-colonialists, to phenomenologists, …
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Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German by Rainer Nicolaysen looks at this period in detail, via Foucault…
Ana Sofia Elias and Rosalind Gill, Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism (2018) European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (1), pp. 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705604 Abstract This article argues that ‘beauty apps’ are transforming the arena of appearance politics and foregrounds a theoretical architecture for critically understanding them. Informed by a feminist-Foucaultian framework, it argues …
woh, this foucault biopic looks off the chain pic.twitter.com/ljiU39KjJk — Jeremy Poxon (@JeremyPoxon) January 22, 2018 Editor’s comment: In reality Mark Strong in The Kingsman
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ABSTRACT This article theorizes the biopolitical production of embodiment through a consideration of biopolitical metaphor. It is argued that much recent theoretical work on biopower fails to provide an adequate account of embodiment, and particularly on the question of the habitualization of bodily experience. However, read through the lens of…
Kélina Gotman (2018) Foucault, Aufklärung, and the Historical ‘Scene’, Parallax, 24:1, 45-61, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2017.1415257 Beginning of article No philosopher can go without examining his own participation in this us precisely because it is this us which is becoming the object of the philosopher’s own reflection. Michel Foucault, ‘What Is Revolution?’ What does it take to imagine another …
Confluence Concourse: Call for Publication: Special Issue on “Political Genealogy after Foucault” Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range …
‘An incredible transformation’: how rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convert | US news | The Guardian Abdullahi Yusuf was having an identity crisis. Culturally marooned between home life with his traditional Somali parents and immersion in his everyday American school life in Minnesota, the Muslim teen gradually found his way to terrorist …
Stuffed corpse of philosopher Jeremy Bantham to fly to USA | Daily Mail Online By Lara Keay, 25 February 2018 Leading 19th century thinker wanted his remains to be preserved after he died His will instructed friends to strip out his flesh and stuff and dress his corpse He has been on display at University …
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