Sacha Golob, (2015) Subjectivity, Reflection and Freedom in Later Foucault, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 23:5, 666-688. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2015.1091029 Abstract This paper proposes a new reading of the interaction between subjectivity, reflection and freedom within Foucault’s later work. I begin by introducing three approaches to subjectivity, locating these in relation both to Foucault’s texts and to …
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“We are condemned to sense,” Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes in his Preface to Phenomenology of Perception (Landes translation, lxxxiv). The statement concludes a paragraph not on our bodily schema or our being toward the world (être à monde) but on history, or the relation of (natural) perception to (social) history. He ends the…
Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders, Sage, 2019 See also a roundtable on this book on 15 January 2020, University of Warwick The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual …
Grégoire Chamayou, La société ingouvernable. Une généalogie du libéralisme autoritaire, La fabrique éditions, 2019 Partout, ça se rebiffait. Les années 1970, a-t-on dit à droite et à gauche, du côté de Samuel Huntington comme de Michel Foucault, ont été ébranlées par une gigantesque « crise de gouvernabilité ». Aux États-Unis, le phénomène inquiétait au plus …
Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism. The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Columbia University Press, 2019 Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts …
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, Duke University Press, 2019 n Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. …
Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972, Translated by Graham Burchell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 “What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the …
Foucault at Warwick, 17 January 2020, 5pm, University of Warwick, UK Alison Downham Moore, Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini and Federico Testa PDF of poster
Internet et libertés publiques : qu’est ce qui a changé depuis Snowden ? France Culture, 20/09/2019 Podcast Les révélations d’Edward Snowden ont-elles provoqué plus qu’une prise de conscience? Que nous disent-elles de l’utopie déchue d’internet? Félix Tréguer, co-fondateur de la Quadrature du net, nous en parle dans L’utopie déchue (Fayard, 2019). Alors qu’internet devait permettre …
L’utopie déchue. Une contre-histoire d’Internet XVe-XXIe siècle, Félix Tréguer | Fayard, 2019 À travers une histoire croisée de l’État et des luttes politiques associées aux moyens de communication, Félix Tréguer montre pourquoi le projet émancipateur associé à l’Internet a été tenu en échec et comment les nouvelles technologies servent à un contrôle social toujours plus …
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