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, …
Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar Call for Proposals (2022) We invite papers for the inaugural year of our seminar on Foucault and the Study of Religion. Following our exploratory session at the 2021 AAR on Michel Foucault’s posthumously published Confessions of the Flesh (2018), we seek to gather scholars engaging the work of …
Schultz, D.J. (2022), Revolutionary Spectatorship and Subalternity: Foucault In Iran. History & Theory. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12249 ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a novel reading of Michel Foucault’s Iranian writings and probe their unexplored linkages with longstanding historiographical debates. I argue that these writings run headlong into the conceptual aporias of political modernity by contesting the assumed …
Carlos Palacios, Skeptically Self-governed Citizens: The ‘Volunteer!’ Injunction as a Predicament of Neoliberal Life (2022) Citizenship Studies DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2022.2053837 Abstract The idea that anyone, with the right critical knowledge and a certain amount of spare time and resources, could become a globally responsible citizen has been skeptically questioned at least since the time of Rousseau. …
