Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Humanity, Technology And The Pandemic Crisis, Forbes, Jun 10, 2020. The speed and scale with which Covid-19 has spread over the course of just a few months are reconfiguring the way we think and act alongside technology to tackle grand challenges in times of crisis. Since being forced to move our lives indoors …
Andrew Durbin Hervé Guibert: Living Without a Vaccine, New York Review of Books, June 12, 2020, Adapted from the introduction to a new edition of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, published by Semiotext(e) / Native Agents and MIT Press. In 1988 the French novelist and photographer Hervé Guibert was …
Michel Foucault – Portrait With Flower Crown Mask Philosophy Mask Designed and Sold by isstgeschichte Michel Foucault – Portrait With Flower Crown: This is probably one of my favorite works that I have ever made. It’s one of the most important philosophy figures, decorated with a beautiful flower crown, making it a fantastic philosophy meme. …
Meekes, J.F., Buda, D.M., de Roo, G. Socio-spatial complexity in leisure development (2020) Annals of Tourism Research, 80, art. no. 102814, DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2019.102814 Abstract Connections between socio-spatial complexity in a social domain and Foucauldian discourse analysis gain momentum in the wider social sciences, but have been marginalized in leisure and tourism research. We combine, explore …
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and the Politics of Language Today Telos Summer 2020 vol. 2020 no. 191 47-68 doi: 10.3817/0620191047 From Editorial summary – Special Issue Telos 191 (Summer 2020): Going Viral By David Pan · Monday, June 15, 2020 We face such danger with every viral outbreak that underlines the unpredictability of our …
Problematic statues and ‘race war’ by Blake Smith, Washington Examiner, June 18, 2020 […] What we are in the habit of calling “identity politics,” and particularly political movements based on (somewhat contradictory) appeals to racial solidarity and anti-racism, depend on a “certain way of making historical knowledge work within political struggle.” So argued Foucault in …
Pandemic Conundrum: To Control Or To Trust? – Analysis, Eurasia Review June 27, 2020 By Yasmine Wong The COVID-19 pandemic has blurred the boundaries between private and public life. Government efforts to discourage socially irresponsible behaviour have emboldened individuals to report, shame, and berate individuals who flout rules. This rise in mutual surveillance erodes trust …
Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence. The Ethical in the Political, Verso, February 2020 Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates …
Purdy, N., Hunter, J., Totton, L. Examining the legacy of the Warnock Report in Northern Ireland: A Foucauldian genealogical approach (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 706-723. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3604 Abstract Over 40 years after the publication of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People, …
Wynne, L. Empowerment and the individualisation of resistance: A Foucauldian perspective on Theatre of the Oppressed (2020) Critical Social Policy, 40 (3), pp. 331-349. DOI: 10.1177/0261018319839309 Abstract Waterloo, in Sydney, Australia, is a neighbourhood currently dominated by a large public housing estate. The estate is to be redeveloped to be a ‘socially mixed’ community largely …
