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Elisabetta Basso,?Young Foucault:?The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955?- Columbia University Press, September 2022, translated by Marie Satya McDonough, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt In the 1950s, long before his ascent to international renown, Michel Foucault published a scant few works. His early writings on psychology, psychopathology, and…
Flavin, M. Wikipedia = Heterotopia (2022) New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2022.2047800 Abstract This paper analyses the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia using Michel Foucault’s (1926–1984) concept of heterotopia. In Foucault’s writings, heterotopias are both similar to and distinct from the conditions that give rise to them. The paper undertakes a case study of one …
Foucault Lives. A Day Seminar on the Work and Legacy of Michel Foucault Event: Foucault Lives 2022 Date: 25 June 2022 Venue: Valletta Campus As he often said, Foucault never wanted his work to become dead theory or inspire a cult following. From metaphors that compare his ideas to ‘a box of tools’ to characterisations …
Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story. What Reality TV Says About Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) 2022 A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality What do we see when we watch reality television? In True …
Brara, Rita. “Introduction: What Might We Mean by the Anthropocene?” Contributions to Indian Sociology 55, no. 3 (October 2021): 307–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211073723. Abstract ‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’ (Michel Foucault 1977: 27) …
van Wijk, Berend. “Beyond the Entrepreneur Society: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Critical Attitude.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, June 2021, doi:10.1177/01914537211017589. Abstract Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics is generally acknowledged as a pioneering study of neoliberalism, presenting it not merely as an economic theory but also as a mode of government. There is much debate, …
Editor: Machiel Karskens has updated his major Chronological Bibliography of the written and spoken texts of Michel Foucault. This bibliography is held on the Foucault info site and also linked to on the Bibliographies page of this site, Foucault News. Chronological Bibliography of the written and spoken texts of MICHEL FOUCAULT Bibliography established by Machiel …
20th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle Emory University Atlanta, GA May 13-15, 2022 Foucault Circle 2022 Program PDF All sessions will be held in the Jones Room, Robert W. Woodruff Library Friday, May 13th 3-5pm Session 1: Affect and Materialism Moderator: Samantha Wrisley, Emory University Selin Islekel, Fordham University “’Fables that Stir the Mind’: …
Jessica Whyte, Neoliberal Freedom as Stoic Resignation, LSE Events, podcast, 10 Feb 2022 In this talk, Jessica Whyte will trace the development of neoliberal attitudes to the subjective comportment required for a functioning competitive market. Her focus is on the irony by which a neoliberal movement that emerged as a critique of the stoic resignation …
Jeanne Morefield, Unsettling the World. Edward Said and Political Theory, Forthcoming 2022 Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, …
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