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Yesterday I finished year 1969 in Dits et Écrits v. 1, the chronological collection of Foucault’s writings. The year’s set of writings almost literally ends with an analogy between the method of Foucault and that of his former teacher, Merleau-Ponty. Recall that 1969 is the year Archaeology of Knowledge is published. It…
Jane O’Grady, Sir Roger Scruton obituary, The Guardian, 15 January 2020 Philosopher, writer and political thinker with controversial views on education, hunting and architecture Roger Scruton, who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both …
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marie-Claire Brisbois, Elite power in low-carbon transitions: A critical and interdisciplinary review (2019) Energy Research and Social Science, 57, art. no. 101242, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101242 Abstract Modern energy systems have tended towards centralized control by states, and national and multinational energy companies. This implicates the power of elites in realizing low-carbon transitions. In particular, …
Taylor C. (2013) The Discourses of Climate Change. In: Cadman T. (eds) Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006127_2 Abstract Climate change has been represented in a variety of ways. These representations have enacted their own discursive formations, which people discuss and act upon at local, national and …
Yusoff, Kathryn. “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change.” Theory, Culture & Society 27, no. 2–3 (March 2010): 73–99. doi:10.1177/0263276410362090. Abstract As environments and their inhabitants undergo a multitude of abrupt changes due to climate, in the aesthetic field there has been a hardening of a few representational figures that stand in for …
Catherine Malabou’s lecture “Philosophy and the Outside” – 2019-08-21 Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. August 3rd, 2018. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought.
INTERVIEW, Bernard Harcourt: «La société numérique repose sur la folle divulgation de nous-mêmes», Libération Par Sonya Faure, Recueilli par — 10 janvier 2020 ABONNÉS Scrutés par les algorithmes, bombardés par les «recommandations», nous sommes pistés, ciblés, exposés. A notre corps défendant, vraiment ? Professeur de droit à Columbia University et directeur d’études à l’Ehess, Bernard …
Matt McManus, Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power, Areo, August 29, 2019 Update September 2025: Areo Magazine appears to no longer be available. The link above is to the archived article on the Wayback Machine Karl Marx and Michel Foucault are two of the most cited critical theorists in the world today, simultaneously …
Davide Panagia, “On the Political Ontology of the Dispositif,” Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (Spring 2019): 714-746. DOI: 10.1086/702613 At an otherwise unnoteworthy moment during his 18 January 1978 lecture at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault stumbles just when he is about to resume his discussion of the “apparatuses of security” (dispositifs de sécurité). …
Daniele Lorenzini (2020) On possibilising genealogy, Inquiry, Published online: 09 Jan 2020 DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712227 ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the vindicatory/unmasking distinction has so far prevented scholars from grasping a third dimension of genealogical inquiry, one I call possibilising. This dimension has passed unnoticed even though it constitutes a crucial aspect of Foucault’s …
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