Crying for Repression: Populist and Democratic Biopolitics in Times of COVID-19. by Karsten Schubert • Critical Legal Thinking— Law and the Political —1, April 2020 We live in very Foucauldian times, as the many think-pieces published on biopolitics and COVID-19 show. Yet what is remarkable—biopolitically—about the current situation has gone largely unnoticed: We are witnessing …
Kyungmee Lee (2020) Openness and innovation in online higher education: a historical review of the two discourses, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, Published online: 14 Jan 2020 DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2020.1713737 ABSTRACT This article tackles a critical question:‘to what extent can online higher education (HE) be open and innovative at the same time?’ …
The Deleuze Seminars We are delighted to announce the virtual launch of a new archive site, The Deleuze Seminars (deleuze.cla.purdue.edu), devoted to the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). The site has several goals: — To provide English translations and French transcriptions, many newly developed for the site, of the seminar lectures Deleuze …
Matthew Hannah with Jan Simon Hutta and Christoph Schemann, Thinking Corona measures with Foucault, University of Bayreuth, 2020 The thoughts to follow have been formulated as a spur to discussion about some of the power relations manifested in state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic up to early April, 2020. While it touches themes covered by …
Foucault on the Coronavirus, Biopolitics, and the “Apparatus of Security”, Apr 5, 2020
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Daniele Lorenzini ? In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.” It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still…
COVID-19 Essays TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, March 23, 2020 Editorial Introduction: Writing in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Vulnerability to Solidarity This is a rapid response collection of essays. In the evening on Sunday, March 15 we began contacting Canadian-based scholars working in the field of biopolitics to write a short, …
Editor: I will be back to posting regularly soon. Like most of the world, Australia is in its own version of national lock down. Conditions in Australia, and in particular in sub-tropical Queensland where I am located, are very easy in comparison to many other places around the globe. The government has acted fast in …
Davies, H.M. Living with asthma in 19th-century France: The doctor, Armand Trousseau, and the patient, Emile Pereire (2020) Journal of Medical Biography, 28 (1), pp. 15-23. DOI: 10.1177/0967772017741763 Abstract Major advances in the French medical system following the French Revolution have stimulated a rich historiography of which Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie …
