Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, Today, the self is the battlefield of politics. Blame Michel Foucault, The Guardian, 15 June 2021 The rise of confessional politics has its origins in the left’s post-60s turn away from structures and towards the individual “We are perhaps living at the end of politics,” Michel Foucault wrote in the …
Davis, D.S., Buffa, D., Rasolondrainy, T., Creswell, E., Anyanwu, C., Ibirogba, A., Randolph, C., Ouarghidi, A., Phelps, L.N., Lahiniriko, F., Chrisostome, Z.M., Manahira, G., Douglass, K. The aerial panopticon and the ethics of archaeological remote sensing in sacred cultural spaces (2021) Archaeological Prospection DOI: 10.1002/arp.1819 Abstract Remote sensing technology has become a standard tool for …
Innico, S. Enacting Statehood in Places of Exception: The Structural Effect of Statehood on Greek Migration Management (2021) Ethnopolitics DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2021.1907932 Abstract The aim of this paper is to outline an analytic perspective on the notion of statehood, state authorities’ performance in situations of exceptionality, and to present some insights from ethnographic research in the …
Roberts, J., Sanderson, P., Seidl, D., Krivokapic, A. The UK Corporate Governance Code Principle of ‘Comply or Explain’: Understanding Code Compliance as ‘Subjection’ (2020) Abacus DOI: 10.1111/abac.12208 Abstract The focus of this paper is on UK Code compliance and the contests and confusions that have surrounded its principle of ‘comply or explain’. In contrast to …
Crispin Sartwell, Michel Foucault Switches Sides, Splice Today, 7 June 2021 Neither the left nor the right can deal with an anti-authoritarian. The French philosophe Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is currently up for re-assessment. In The New York Times, Ross Douthat writes that Foucault, usually thought of as a notorious postmodern neo-Marxist leftist relativist, has lately been associated with the Trumpian right. And an essay in The Point surveys the …
There are games of truth in which truth is a construction and others in which it is not. One can have, for example, a game of truth that consists of describing things in such and such a way: a person giving an anthropological description of a society supplies not a construction but a description, which …
Jeremy Weissman, The Crowdsourced Panopticon. Conformity and Control on Social Media, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Review at LSE Review of Books Behind the omnipresent screens of our laptops and smartphones, a digitally networked public has quickly grown larger than the population of any nation on Earth. On the flipside, in front of the ubiquitous recording …
The Early Foucault | 10-Minute Talks | The British Academy In this talk Stuart Elden discusses his new book, ‘The Early Foucault’ and the research he did on the first period of Michel Foucault’s career. In particular, he highlights what Foucault did before the History of Madness in 1961 and how he came to write …
Geoff Shullenberger,The Violence of Institutions, or Girard avec Foucault, Outsider Theory, June 2, 2021 René Girard and Michel Foucault, two of the most ambitious interdisciplinary thinkers of the twentieth century, shared an abiding interest in the violence embedded in institutions, but their names are rarely mentioned together. My modest goal here is to outline a …
Società Filosofica Italiana Società Filosofica Italiana – sezione di Lucca SEMINARIO TELEMATICO SU “Eccezione pandemica e tanatopolitica affermativa” Relatore Francescomaria Tedesco (Università di Camerino) Presenta Giovanna Miglio (Società Filosofica Italiana, Lucca) MERCOLEDÌ 9 GIUGNO 2021 H. 17:00-19:30 LINK: (PIATTAFORMA MEET) HTTPS://MEET.GOOGLE.COM/XJN-SECH-PUI
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