Tuomo Tiisala, Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality. Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2021, Volume 48 Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1086/715986 Abstract This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that the relationship is significantly more complicated than either Foucault’s critics or defenders have appreciated in the recent controversy. On the …
XII Colóquio Internacional Michel Foucault: Devir do Pensamento e Multiplicação de Práticas 19/10/2021 – 22/10/2021 Sobre o evento Pensamentos que compõem reflexões construídas no passado fazem-se pensamento vivo quando se prestam a reflexões no presente. É assim que as filosofias historicamente elaboradas, pertencentes que são ao próprio tempo no qual se circunscreveram, permanecem válidas para …
Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, Columbia University Press, 2020 Interview with author Review in Foucault Studies What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority …
Rajendran, P. Parrhesia and clinical practice: A case study of Dr. Esdaile’s mesmeric hospital in Hooghly (2021) Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13 (2), pp. 1-13. DOI: 10.21659/RUPKATHA.V13N2.05 Abstract This paper seeks to explore the complex negotiation between mesmerism (as unauthorised medical practice) and the State by analyzing the singular example of Dr. …
Perry Zurn and I are pleased to announce that Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press at the end of this month. Perry and I are co-editors of the volume and Perry and Erik Beranek are the principal translators. Intolerable UM …
Gravesen, J.D., Birkelund, R. The discursive transformation of grief throughout history (2021) Nursing Philosophy DOI: 10.1111/nup.12351 Abstract In recent decades, the phenomenon of grief, when you lose a loved one, has been the subject of exploration and discussion among researchers. Because of this, prolonged grief is now recognized as a possible mental disorder as the …
Larocque, C., Foth, T. Which lives are worth saving? Biolegitimacy and harm reduction during COVID-19 (2021) Nursing Inquiry DOI: 10.1111/nin.12417 Open access Abstract Despite the promise to save every life, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and racial inequalities, precarious living conditions, and engendered an exponential increase in overdose deaths. Although some lives are considered …
Wagner, A., Matulewska, A., & Marusek, S. “Pandemica Panoptica: Biopolitical Management of Viral Spread in the Age of Covid-19.” International journal for the semiotics of law = Revue internationale de semiotique juridique, 1-37. 4 Feb. 2021, doi:10.1007/s11196-021-09821-1 Abstract The current pandemic period has triggered a series of changes in society, at both individual and collective …
Riemann, M. “As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary (2021) Journal of Global Security Studies, 6 (1). DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz069 Abstract IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and …
Häberlen, J.C. Spiritual Politics: New Age and New Left in West Germany around 1980 (2021) European History Quarterly, 51 (2), pp. 239-261. DOI: 10.1177/02656914211004441 Open access Abstract In the late 1970s, an increasing number of West German ‘alternative’ leftist authors and activists turned to spiritual ideas. A milieu that had once been characterized by what …
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