Simoncini, A. Reading capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx. [Leer El capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx] (2021) Arete, 33 (2), pp. 367-388. DOI: 10.18800/arete.202102.008 Open access Abstract Foucault and Benjamin exploited different themes and categories from Marx’s Capital, in accordance with their topics of interest and theoretical and political options. Foucault concentrated on the analysis of the relations …
Postcolonial Governmentalities. Rationalities, Violences and Contestations Edited by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 This edited volume asks how governmentality and postcolonial approaches can be brought together to help us better understand specific sites and practices of contemporary postcolonial governance. The framework/approach was inspired by the recent use of governmentality approaches that …
Hao, A.X. Make this tango viral: Touching toward the untouchable in tele-synaesthesia performance (2021) Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8 (2-3), pp. 237-266. DOI: 10.1386/JCCA_00046_1 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncanny rift between tact and touch as it expands the virtual towards its potential. Layer upon layer of new information has been repeatedly …
CFP: Session – Geographies of Parrhesia: Resistance, Critique, and the Formation of Self and Other Link Federico Ferretti, University of Bologna Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham Session in Royal Geographical Society with IBG Conference, August 2022, Newcastle University. The influence of Michel Foucault on geographical research is long-standing, widespread, and much critiqued. While his philosophy …
Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology: Arts and Sciences, Historicizing Boundaries Venice, 9-10 June 2022 Confirmed keynote speakers: Peter Galison (Harvard) Caroline Jones MIT Abstract [for full abstract see here] The 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the …
Jusmet, L.R. Constructing oneself as an ethical subject for a true life: The proposals of Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and François Jullien [Construirse como sujeto ético para una vida verdadera. Las propuestas de Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y François Jullien] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1372 Abstract This work analyses the line of thought …
Sapsford, R. Contradictory regimes of practice: Constructs and discourses in an open prison (2021) Theory and Psychology DOI: 10.1177/09593543211061507 Abstract Using concepts from Kelly and Foucault, analysis of interviews in the mid-1990s with staff in an English open prison explores how contrasting discourses are reconciled. Two superficially antagonistic discursive formations within prison practice are described: …
Kate Wagner, Remembering Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Otherworldly Social Housing, Curbed, 28 Jnuary 2022 His buildings fill dystopic films, but function more like colorful utopias. […] For many people, their introduction to the work of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill comes from the image of his grand social housing project, the monumental and colonnaded Espaces d’Abraxas, standing …
Jarryd Bartle, In defence of Michel Foucault, Unherd, January 27, 2022 Blaming French theory for the extremes of the American Left has been a popular line for that last few years. Public intellectual Jordan Peterson has blamed “postmodern neo-Marxism” for the rise of a hypersensitive yet coercive activism, connecting the term to everything from safe …
Jelena Radonjic, Office, What Office? How Our Concept Of Work Is Changing Forbes, Dec 7, 2021, Most of us have become well-versed in the ways of new work with Zoom routines in our neat home offices. While we are far from post-pandemic times, we are gradually stepping back into office spaces and the question is …
