Covid-19 no Brasil e diagnóstico do presente: análise do discurso e biopolítica, Revista Ética e Filosofia Política, v. 2 n. 23 (2020): Episteme e Práxis DOI: 10.34019/2448-2137.2020.33287 Open access Resumo A partir do pano de fundo da gestão política da pandemia de COVID-19, este artigo visa apresentar e discutir a noção foucaultiana de biopolítica articulando …
Federico Jose Lagdameo, Normalizing the Population: The Biopolitics of the “New Normal”, Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture XXIV.1 (2020): 67–97. Open access Abstract While the whole world is trying to get its bearings in the face of the radical changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, two prevailing attitudes or approaches have emerged: …
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Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 Three really generous endorsements for the book, from people whose own work I really admire. ‘Elden’s compendious coverage of Foucault’s intellectual career constitutes the contemporary apogee of scholarship on Foucault.’Mark G. E. Kelly, Western Sydney University ‘This is a work of…
Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education. Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research Editors: Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa, Rille Raaper, Bloomsbury Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers …
Webinar: All Eyes on Latin America: Anti-Gender Politics Through Transnational Lenses, on January 29, 2021 at 9 am EST Press Release Abstracts
Iain Mackenzie, Critique in a World of Control Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Our tenth interview is with Iain Mackenzie, philosophy scholar (Canterbury, UK) by Evrim Emir-Sayers (Paris, France) Thursday, May 7, 2020 PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to …
Hull, Gordon, Infrastructure, Modulation, Portal: Thinking with Foucault about how Internet Architecture Shapes Subjects, SSRN (January 22, 2021). Open access Abstract Following Foucault’s remarks on the importance of architecture to disciplinary power, this paper offers a typology of power relations expressed in different models of Internet governance. Infrastructure governance understands the Internet as a common …
Linda Steele, Disability, criminal justice and law: Reconsidering court diversion. Routledge, 2020. Book Description Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law’s complicity in the debilitation of disabled people. In a post-deinstitutionalisation era, diverting disabled people from criminal justice systems and into mental health and disability services is …
Mathieu Arminjon & Régis Marion-Veyron, Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage (2021) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (1), art. no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 Open access Abstract In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect …
George Kokkinidis and Marco Checchi, Power matters: Posthuman entanglements in a social solidarity clinic (2021) Organization, Vol 30, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420973304 Abstract This paper develops a materialist and performative conception of power, proposing a theoretical framework that bridges Barad’s intra-active agential ontology and Foucault’s microphysics of power. The article uses empirical data collected from a …
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