Bernard E. Harcourt, Critique and Praxis, Columbia University Press Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times …
Wade, F. “Judith Butler on the Violence of Neglect Amid a Health Crisis. A conversation with the theorist about her new book, The Force of Nonviolence, and the need for global solidarity in the pandemic World.” The Nation May 13 (2020). Butler—who is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of …
Martin Hardie, Governing the Society of Competition. Cycling, Doping and the Law, Hart Publishing, 2020 This book considers the manner in which the making and implementation of law and governance is changing in the global context. It explores this through a study of the deployment of the global anti-doping apparatus including the World Anti-Doping Code …
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It’s now been the better part of a year since I finished this book. Our pandemic world makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to accomplish the mundane academic task of producing summary statements of what I’ve read. I offer this belated set of notes on the third part of Laval, Paltrinieri…
Chenchen Zhang (2020) Governing (through) trustworthiness: technologies of power and subjectification in China’s social credit system, Critical Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1822194 Open access Abstract:This article examines the technologies of power and subjectification in China’s social credit system through a theoretically informed analysis of policy and legal documents as well as the narratives of social credit practitioners, including local officials and …
As the 6th edition of the Workshop on Historical Epistemology – Historical Epistemology and Epistemology of History – could not take place last spring, we have rescheduled it in a new format. We are thus very glad to invite you to the Month of Historical Epistemology! During November 2020, we will hold weekly meetings on Zoom to discuss …
Beer, David. “A History of the Data Present.” History of the Human Sciences, (October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120959254. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person Colin Koopman, How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 269 pp. ISBN: 9780226626581 Watching TV I start to wonder if …
Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition, Minnesota University Press, 2020 University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | September 2020ISBN 978-1-5179-0964-2 | paper | $27.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0963-5 | cloth | $108.00 Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human-animal relations Antoine Traisnel reveals …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/view-back-from-devils-staircase.jpg The view back from the Devil’s Staircase https://michel-foucault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/valley-to-devils-staircase-2.jpg The valley road to the Devil’s Staircase A lot of the time recently has been spent revising?The Early Foucault, but that is now?done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on?this manuscript. Ordinarily I’d have had…
