Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with Foucault in a cowboy hat, which was a gift from…
Châteauvert-Gagnon, B. ‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security (2022) Security Dialogue DOI: 10.1177/09670106221090830 Abstract Malalai Joya, Greta Thunberg, Idle No More leaders – what do these figures have in common? They each decided to act/speak out against the failures, lacks, exclusions, violence and injustices in the words and …
Dyakov, A.V. Michel Foucault and Antiquity: Between the philosophical historicism and the history of thought (2022) Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Filosofiia i Konfliktologiia, 38 (1), pp. 19-29. DOI: 10.21638/spbu17.2022.102 Article in Russian Abstract Michel Foucault was well known as an epistemologist, historicist, and historian of thought. His analyses of ancient culture are a crucial moment for …
Kikabhai, N. How educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion and social justice: Disability, power, discipline, territoriality and deterritorialization (2022) British Journal of Sociology DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12969 Abstract This paper presents a critical examination of a vexed issue relating to how educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Whilst there are unique factors specific to …
Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt, Acid Horizon, Aug. 13, 2022 ABOUT THIS EPISODE Acid Horizon hosts Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and prolific writer and editor. Bernard joins the cast to discuss the legacy of Foucault’s work, its emergence within its historical milieu, and the practical …
Christopher Blackwell, Reading While Incarcerated Saved Me. So Why Are Prisons Banning Books?, The New York Times, 17 August 2022 SHELTON, Wash. — During my first decade in prison, I busied myself with exercising and hanging out in the big yard. I hardly grew as a person, aside from developing muscles that I really used …
Schliehe, A., Philo, C., Carlin, B., Fallon, C., Penna, G. Lockdown under lockdown? Pandemic, the carceral and COVID-19 in British prisons (2022) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers DOI: 10.1111/tran.12557 Abstract The relationship between pandemic, or chronic infectious diseases, and the carceral, meaning set-apart spaces of enforced confinement for “wrong-doers,” has a long, tangled …
Tsiakiri, L. Euthanasia: Promoter of Autonomy or Supporter of Biopower? (2022) Conatus – Journal of Philosophy, 7 (1), pp. 123-133. DOI: 10.12681/cjp.25088 Abstract The medical developments and their subsequent influence on the duration of human life have brought in the limelight various moral questions. The pathological conditions do not constitute anymore the decisive causes of …
CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom Volume 3, Issue 4, 2022 Foucault’s Method Today Open access “Foucault’s Method: Introduction to Issue”, Cindy Zeiher and Mike Grimshaw “Notes on the Concept of Hyper-subjectivity—Foucault, Lacan, Illouz”, Rey Chow and Austin Sarfan “Foucault v Freud: Unthought, Unconscious, and Kant’s ‘Rhapsody of Perceptions’”, Henry Krips …
Nadarajan, D. (2022), “The Zombification Crisis in a Crisis: Neoliberal Battles and Teacher Survivors in the Pandemic”, Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A013 Abstract In this piece, the author invokes Beck’s (1997) conception of “zombie …
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