Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society. A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism, Translated by Andrew Brown, Polity 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships …
Anthropology News website. 2019. “How to Spark Joy by Tidying Up Your Thesis.” May 20, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1174 Open access Before we can begin revising your thesis, you must make the decision that you want to revise it. Once you make that step, this process will only need to happen one time, because then you …
The new issue of Philosophical Inquiries (IX, 1-2021) features a Focus section discussing Ian Hacking’s philosophy, his arguments on the combination between history and philosophy of science, on experimental realism, on scientific stability and on the disunity of the sciences. The Focus section is edited by Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro. The issue also presents …
Anders Fogh Jensen, Brave New Normal, Filosoffen, 2021 (See also earlier post) The book is an introduction to the history of Epidemics through the analytical lens of Foucault. Throughout history, epidemics have repeatedly posed a single, provocative question: ‘Organise or die – what will you do?’ This book explores how different societies have answered. In …
Guillaume Lachenal, Ranger façon Marie Kondo ou Michel Foucault ? Liberation, 11 décembre 2019 J’ai arrêté de lire la Magie du rangement, le best-seller de la coach japonaise en économie domestique, au moment où il faut jeter ses feuilles de paye – il faut vraiment venir d’un pays qui ne croit plus à la retraite …
Fraser, G. Foucault, governmentality theory and ‘Neoliberal Community Development’ (2020) Community Development Journal, 55 (3), pp. 437-451. DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsy049 Abstract It is widely accepted that Michel Foucault’s ‘governmentality lectures’ constituted a seminal moment in the history of neoliberal studies. In an analysis which was original and prescient, Foucault framed neoliberalism, not only in terms of …
Isaev, I., Kornev, A., Lipen, S., Zenin, S. The “machine of power” and aspects of political balance (2020) Quaestio Rossica, 8 (3), pp. 979-992. DOI: 10.15826/qr.2020.3.507 Abstract This article explores the historical pattern of the evolution of power technologies. The methodological basis relies on the philosophical movements of the twentieth century (phenomenology, structuralism, etc.) and …
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Foucault and Christianity – a really interesting online resource from Niki Kasumi Clements, as part of the research for her book Foucault the Confessor. As part of my research on Michel Foucault’s engagement with early Christian texts, I have been tracing his citational practices from 1974-1984 through his published works;…
Ogáyar, S.R. De cuerpos subjetivados e imágenes artistizadas: La lógica biopolítica de la historia del arte (2020) Boletin de Arte, (41), pp. 219-226. DOI: 10.24310/BoLArte.2020.v41i.8007 Resumen En su escrito Sobre las ruinas del museo, Douglas Crimp planteó la necesidad de abrir un capítulo olvidado por parte de la crítica hacia las entrañas de la modernidad. …
Claire Colebrook What Is This Thing Called Education? Qualitative Inquiry. 2017;23(9):649-655. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417725357 Abstract Education exposes a conundrum that extends well beyond government policy and beyond those working in education as a designated discipline. If education is nothing more than a human science or the achievement of satisfactory outcomes by way of testing, then education has …
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