Amo-Agyemang, C. Unmasking resilience as governmentality: towards an Afrocentric epistemology (2021) International Politics DOI: 10.1057/s41311-021-00282-8 Abstract This paper is a discussion of how indigenous Afrocentric epistemologies proffer critiques and alternative to neoliberal discourses of resilience and what differences it makes for the study of International Politics. There has been an epistemological shift in recent times …
David Langwallner: Human Rights In A Coronavirus Panopticon, Broadsheet, 10 March 2021 Now of course we live in perilous times worldwide for the justice system and one can have far too much faith in legal processes to protect us as the rule of law and the cause of human rights diminishes and the gatekeepers have …
Zaidi, Z., Bush, A.A., Partman, I.M. et al. From the “top-down” and the “bottom-up”: Centering Foucault’s notion of biopower and individual accountability within systemic racism. Perspectives on Medical Education (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-021-00655-y Open access First paragraph In the wake of worldwide events coalescing in 2020, the presence of anti-Black racism in the United States was made …
Ponzo, J., Marino, G. Modelizing epistemologies: Organizing Catholic sanctity from calendar-based martyrologies to today’s mobile apps (2021) Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0089 Abstract The Catholic concept of “sanctity” can be thought of as a “cultural unit”(Eco) composed of a wide variety of “grounds”(Peirce) or distinctive features. The figures of individual saints, i.e., tokens of sanctity, are characterized …
Alison Bedford, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, In Frankenstein’s Wake. Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction, McFarland, 2021 Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For …
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The French Programme: How Theory Came to London – Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought. March 1973: two months after Britain joins the European Economic Community, the French historian of ideas Michel Foucault is scheduled to give a lecture in…
Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society. A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism, Translated by Andrew Brown, Polity 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships …
Anthropology News website. 2019. “How to Spark Joy by Tidying Up Your Thesis.” May 20, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1174 Open access Before we can begin revising your thesis, you must make the decision that you want to revise it. Once you make that step, this process will only need to happen one time, because then you …
The new issue of Philosophical Inquiries (IX, 1-2021) features a Focus section discussing Ian Hacking’s philosophy, his arguments on the combination between history and philosophy of science, on experimental realism, on scientific stability and on the disunity of the sciences. The Focus section is edited by Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro. The issue also presents …
Anders Fogh Jensen, Brave New Normal, Filosoffen, 2021 (See also earlier post) The book is an introduction to the history of Epidemics through the analytical lens of Foucault. Throughout history, epidemics have repeatedly posed a single, provocative question: ‘Organise or die – what will you do?’ This book explores how different societies have answered. In …
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