How ruling class controls the public Gao Lei addresses power, violence By Kwon Mee-yoo. Korea Times, Dec 2017 Exhibition ran until January 7 2018 Editor’s note: old news Chinese artist Gao Lei explores the power, control and violence of the ruling class in contemporary society through witty and allegorical art. “I was inspired by French …
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Foucault, Les aveux de la chair is reviewed in Spanish by Agustín Colombo (open access) A roundup of news stories and other pieces – mostly in French and some in English is here. My review essay is on the Theory, Culture and Society blog (open access), and is forthcoming in the journal.
Lindh, K. The construction of lay rescuers in bystander CPR classes (2018) Library Trends, 66 (3), pp. 315-328. DOI: 10.1353/lib.2018.0005 Abstract There are many situations in society and life in which the body is expected to play an important role for the acquisition of particular skills. This article reports on a study of such a …
Ashe, Leah M. (2018). “He, she, we, they, and it: The subjects of food and torture.” Presentation at the International Conference on Food History and Cultures, Institut Européen D’Histoire et des Cultures de L’Alimentation (IEHCA), Tours, France, 7-8 June 2018. Text available at academia.edu video
Patrick Gamez, Did Foucault do Ethics? The “Ethical Turn,” Neoliberalism, and the Problem of Truth, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy – Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XXVI, No 1 (2018) pp 107-133 DOI 10.5195/jffp.2018.818 Open access Abstract This paper argues against a common misunderstanding of Foucault’s work. Even after …
Gormley, K. Neoliberalism and the discursive construction of ‘creativity’ (2018) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2018.1459762 Abstract This paper resists normative definitions of ‘creativity’ to argue that the concept is constructed by neoliberal discourses in education policy. The analysis is firstly centred on the Australian context, and this is further …
McGlashan, H., Fitzpatrick, K. ‘I use any pronouns, and I’m questioning everything else’: transgender youth and the issue of gender pronouns (2018) Sex Education, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2017.1419949 Abstract The nature of sex/ualities, genders and schooling has changed considerably over the last 20 years, with global political, social and cultural shifts bringing …
The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | Into The Voids: Traversing The Work Of Raymond Depardon, December 2017 Editor’s note: old news Extract At the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris, Adam Scovell explores one of the most important European post-war photographers still working today. […] Depardon captures institutes with a rare eye; the faces …
BBC – Culture – Magritte and the subversive power of his pipe By Cath Pound, 5 December 2017 Editor’s note: old news René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) is one of the most famous yet persistently enigmatic works in the history of art. One of the word-image series of paintings …
Journée d’étude internationale : Michel Foucault et la force des mots PDF Programme: Centre Prospero, Bruxelles
