COVID-19: Narrative economics, public policy and mental health, Annie Tubadji, Don Webber, Frederic Boy VOX CEPR Policy Portal, 10 June 2020 The general public’s mental health can be affected by different public policy responses to a pandemic threat. Italy, the UK and Sweden implemented distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lockdown, delayed lockdown, and …
Maev Conneely, Paul Higgs & Joanna Moncrieff, Medicalising the moral: the case of depression as revealed in internet blogs. Social Theory & Health (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00141-1 Abstract Depression is regularly declared to be equivalent to a bodily illness, yet critics have long contested this ‘medical’ view of mental disorders. Following the ideas of Szasz and Foucault, …
Rakesh Sengupta, “Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi.” Theory, Culture & Society, (July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420930276 Abstract Much has been written about how Foucault’s archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe, was curiously divorced from its context of colonialism. Media archaeology, as Foucault’s legacy, …
Alexander Kauffman. Manet, museum, modernism: Michel Foucault and modernist art history. Journal of Art Historiography Number 22 June 2020. Open access Extract Michel Foucault’s writing transformed the field of museum studies. 1 As Kevin Hetherington reflected in a recent state-of-the-field volume, ‘Foucault can be seen as one of the two leading theoretical inspirations for critical …
Existential comics: Foucault builds a school (2020) First two panels. See link for more
MARK D. JORDAN, Gender and Sexuality: Our Identities, Ourselves? Boston Review, May 27, 2020 Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique. So why has identity become the default for talking about who we are and what we desire? […] In the years since Sedgwick …
Mounir Fatmi: Experimental Archives, TLmag 30 Extended: Archæology Now!, May 25, 2020 Text by Blaire Dessent Mounir Fatmi has always been curious about the transformation of objects and how, with a slight change of context or position, they can take on entirely new meanings. Now, he regularly goes back into the archive, transforming materials into …
Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence, online event, Whitechapel Gallery Thursday 23 July, 5pm Judith Butler presents a lecture and live Q&A chaired by Amia Srinivasan that draws on her new book, which shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. The Force of Nonviolence argues …
Foucault quotes which you can use as wallpapers. I can’t find an attribution here but 94 quotes from Foucault with different backgrounds are available for download on the Quotesfancy site.
Notice nécrologique sur Gilbert Humbert Patrick Négrier Gilbert Humbert, né en 1928, et compagnon de Michel Foucault en 1951, est décédé le 14 mai 2020. Ancien élève d’Olivier Messiaën, il eut une vie composite et composante. Composite d’abord en raison du fait qu’il fut successivement ou à la fois un pasteur protestant (1962-67), un militant …
