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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – ‘Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4‘ – Shahidha Bari with Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, and Stephen Shapiro, 25 February 2021, 10pm (and new available online) On the day the final volume of The History of Sexuality is published in English, over 36 years…
Lee, H. The Empiricist Origin of Biopolitics: Freedom and Potentiality in John Locke (2021) Philosophia (United States). DOI: 10.1007/s11406-020-00306-2 Abstract This article examines John Locke’s theory of subjectivity to challenge the recent critical tendency to associate biopolitics and empiricism. Michel Foucault, most notably among modern theorists of biopolitics, proposes that the Lockean man, or an …
Baker, B., & O’Farrell, C. (2021, February 23). Curriculum influences: William James and Michel Foucault. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1093 Editor: I’m really pleased to see this out after a long wait! Email me if you would like a copy and can’t get through the paywall Summary William James …
David Fryer, Charles Marley, Rose Stambe, The Reproduction of Compliant Labour Power Through (Re)Constitution of the Child and Adult Subject: Critical Knowledge-Work, Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, Vol 1 No 1 (2020) Open access Abstract As Althusser made clear: “the reproduction of labour power requires not only a reproduction of its skills, but also, at …
Annie Jacobsen, First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance, Penguin Random House, 2021 Editor: The first chapter titled ‘The Panopticon’ includes a reflection on Foucault’s discussion of the plague in the Abnormal lectures and in Discipline and Punish. ABOUT FIRST PLATOON A powerful story of war in our time, …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, La natura umana come dispositivo, Edizioni Efesto, Ristampa – 2021. Questo è il testo che inaugura la nostra nuova collana “archeologia filosofica”. E’ una mappa delle più importanti problematiche filosofiche che l’idea di natura umana delimita. Questa idea infatti persiste al fondo delle trasformazioni storiche dell’occidente. Se si percorre questo territorio che …
Glasdam, S., Loodin, H., Wrigstad, J. Articulations of antimicrobial resistance in trade union financed journals for nurses in Scandinavia – A Foucauldian perspective (2021) Nursing Inquiry. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12396 Abstract Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial infections is a growing threat to humanity and a challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Healthcare professionals have an important role in …
Marios Emmanouilidis, The Parasitic Folding. Humans-as-Animals, States and Machines that Come from the Outside: Homologies between a Virus and Finance, Translated from the Greek by Barbara Santos, Transversal (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna) , December 2020 Open access The text approaches the Covid-19 epidemic from two points of view: (a) as a war …
Palma Carvajal, J.F. Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice (2021) Journal of Education Policy. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.1875266 Abstract In the previous decades there has been an unprecedented proliferation of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in different policy fields. In hand with this process of ‘NGOisation’, there has been a growing academic debate regarding …
Håkanson, L. The death of the Uppsala school: Towards a discourse-based paradigm? (2021) Journal of International Business Studies DOI: 10.1057/s41267-020-00392-0 Abstract The key elements of the Uppsala school paradigm of the internationalization process of the firm are the historical context to which it applies and the micro-foundations that shape firm internationalization. Technological, institutional, and political …
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