Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …
Stuart Elden, Canguilhem, Polity Press, 2019 Georges Canguilhem (1904-95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis in philosophy on the concept …
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19th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle Stonehill College North Easton, MA, USA April 5-7, 2019 Friday, April 5th 3:00pm-5:00pm Session 1: Confessions of the Flesh & A Preface to Transgression Wencheng Zhu, Southeast University Confession or Sign of Subjectivation?: Libido in Foucault’s Les Aveux de la Chair Daniel Schultz, Oberlin College Sex as the …
Philosophy is that which calls into question domination at every level and in every form in which it exists, whether political, economic, sexual, institutional, or what have you. To a certain extent, this critical function of philosophy derives from the Socratic injunction “Take care of yourself,” in other words, “Make freedom your foundation, through the …
Editor: I will be running a reading group in Brisbane, Australia. All details can be found on the reading group website. Dates 1, 15, 29 March; 12, 26 April; 10, 24 May Time: 1 – 2.30pm fortnightly on Fridays Venue: E block Room E351, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. Map …
Keck, C.S. Radical educations in subjectivity: the convergence of psychotherapy, mysticism and Foucault’s ‘politics of ourselves’ (2019) Ethics and Education, 14 (1), pp. 102-115. DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2018.1554789 Abstract Foucault’s invitation to the subject is to become free of themselves by learning to think differently. Such a project has as its goal the mastery of the self, …
Leman-Langlois, S. State Mass Spying as Illegalism (2018) Critical Criminology, 26 (4), pp. 545-561. DOI: 10.1007/s10612-018-9421-z Abstract Periodic revelations about the workings of data interception, analysis and collection in Canada have each time prompted successive administrations to amend laws and regulations in order to calm public opinion. This has been referred to as “accountability through …
Anton Lee (2018) Review: The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, History of Photography, 42:3, 306-308. DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2018.1531600 Review of the exhibition catalog The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, edited by Brian Wallis (Göttingen: Steidl, 2015) [,,,] The paucity of serious attention to The Order of Things is curious, given …
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