Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
While work on The Early Foucault is just about complete, though stuck until I can get back to Paris, I’m today beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, the fourth and final book in this sequence. It fills in the missing years of 1962-1969, providing an intellectual history of Foucault’s…
Daniel Nemser, Infrastructures of Race. Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2017. See also radio interview with Daniel Nemser Description Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city …
Journal Interlitterara Call for papers Pandemics in European Literature (20th – 21st ce.): Theory and Practice Guest Editors: Nikoleta Zampaki, PhD Candidate of Modern Greek Philology, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, e-mail: nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr, nikoletazampaki@hotmail.com Peggy Karpouzou, Assistant Professor of Theory of Literature, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of …
Michel Foucault: Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 Review by Michael Maidan, Phenomenological Reviews, Sunday June 7th, 2020 Open access Penal Theories and Institutions contains the lectures delivered by Foucault in his second-year tenure at the College de France (1971-2). It is also the last volume of this series, concluding …
Diacritics founder David Grossvogel dies at 94, Cornell Chronicle, By Daniel Aloi | June 22, 2020 Influential scholar, writer and editor David I. Grossvogel, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies Emeritus and member of the Cornell faculty since 1960, died June 14 in Chicago. He was 94. […] Grossvogel founded Diacritics, …
Pierre Hadot, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot. Philosophy as Practice. Translated by Matthew Sharpe, Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, Published: 25-06-2020 This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from one of the world’s most prominent classical philosophers and historians of thought. As …
PsyPolitics Opposites playing the same game ? by Federico Soldani What is the very last thing a patient forced to be admitted to hospital for mental health cannot legally be forced into? According to different legal contexts, with significant national and state variations, as a last resort, a patient can be forced to hospitalization itself, …
Laurence Barry (2019) The rationality of the digital governmentality, Journal for Cultural Research, 23:4, 365-380. Published online: 13 Jan 2020 https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2020.1714878 Abstract While it is often claimed that the emerging digital governmentality functions as a new apparatus of surveillance, the aim of this paper is to characterise this regime in relation to Foucault’s disciplinary, liberal …
Scheider, Marshall (2020) “Economies of Security: Foucault and the Genealogy of Neoliberal Reason,” Gettysburg Social Sciences Review: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Open access Abstract Michel Foucault is well-known for his theorizations of institutional power, normativity, and biopolitics. Less well-known is the fact that Foucault developed his analysis of biopolitics in and …
Originally posted on affecognitive:
The first part of this edited collection reflected on Foucault as a reader of Marx. In the book’s second part, five essays respond to the various Marxisms of the 19th-20th centuries and how Foucault situated his own research in relation to them. The first essay maps Foucault’s writings alongside developments in…
