Editor: A very useful – and growing – list of references put together by Stuart Elden on the Progressive Geographies blog. I have now added a new “Pandemic” category to Foucault News. Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 Several A few pieces by geographers, sociologists and philosophers – presented without commentary. First posted 24 March …
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La mort sa mérite – Nicolas Drolc’s film of Serge Livrozet, is now freely available. Livrozet was involved in the Group d’information sur les prisons with Foucault, and then co-founded the Comité d’Action des Prisonniers. Nicolas previously directed the excellent Sur les toits. LA MORT SE MÉRITE from LES FILMS…
A. Chong, Governance for global pandemics, East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, 26 March 2020 Much of the public alarm triggered by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is greatly bound up with the management of cross-border security threats. COVID-19 resembles a 21st century medieval plague …
Van der Heiden, G.-J. Exile, Use, and Form-of-Life: On the Conclusion of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series (2020) Theory, Culture and Society, 37 (2), pp. 61-78. DOI: 10.1177/0263276419867749 Abstract The last two volumes of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer series are concerned with developing a theory of use. This article offers a critical assessment of the two …
Gane, N. Competition: A Critical History of a Concept (2020) Theory, Culture and Society, 37 (2), pp. 31-59. DOI: 10.1177/0263276419878247 Abstract This article expands Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberalism and neoliberalism by analysing the concept of competition. It addresses four key liberal conceptions of competition in turn: the idea of competition as a destructive but …
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As an earlier post said, I’ve had to cancel two talks – in New York and Bologna – and some archival work because of the current medical situation. There is a bit more on that below, but as much as possible I’m trying to continue work on The Early Foucault…
Elliot Grover, What Can Daniel Defoe’s “Plague Year” Teach Us About Coronavirus?, InsideHook, 17 March 2020 A novel written in 1722 offers a surprisingly relevant blueprint to navigating a 2020 pandemic The panic began the moment the earliest cases were confirmed. Those with means hurriedly packed their belongings and fled the city. Those who stayed …
Felipe Demetri, Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault, Naked Punch, 21 March 2020 […] What the coronavirus epidemic shows us is more the strength of Michel Foucault’s explanatory scheme than the current necro-thanatopolitical strain of interpretations. We all know that Foucault saw biopower as a series of events, from theoretical ones to concrete practices, …
Emanuele Iula, Periferie. Dall’eterotopia alla rigenerazione, Queriniana, Brescia, (2020) In breve Che cos’è una periferia? Come nasce? Come funziona? E come fare per rigenerare chi vive quotidianamente in quei luoghi di esclusione? Una riformulazione sostanziale del nostro modo d’intendere le periferie, oggetto di una specifica attenzione pastorale nel magistero di papa Francesco, per aprire nuovi …
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Foucault And The Politics Of Coronavirus Pandemic – OpEd, Eurasia Review, News and Analysis, March 12, 2020 As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, relentlessly continues it mayhem around the world, on the intellectual side it has also provoked fresh conversations on the (geo) politics and the related ramifications in terms of …
