Linda Martín Alcoff, Rape and Resistance, Polity, 2018 DESCRIPTION Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, mainstream public spheres too often echo reports in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on …
Emma Foster, Foucault and Ecology, in Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492864.010 Summary A Foucauldian perspective offers a number of interesting and significant insights into the relationship between the cultural representations of ‘Nature’ and the processes of subjectification that underpin environmentalism and ecologism. …
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Sean Scully, “Landline Yellow Line” I return, finally, to Foucault’s early interest in limit. But as the past 12 weeks (!!) have seeped away, I have realized that to return to this question in the context of his relation to the Tel Quel group, on the one hand, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology,…
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Foucault against Neoliberalism? translated by Matthew Maclellan – Rowman, June 2020 In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to…
Laena Maunula, “The pandemic subject: Canadian pandemic plans and communicating with the public about an influenza pandemic.” Healthcare policy/Politiques de santé vol. 9, Spec Issue (2013): 14-25. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24289936/ Open access Abstract In this paper, I examine the goals for pandemic public communication as outlined in two Canadian plans for pandemic planning and infection control. I …
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In the last update, I mentioned the work I’d been doing in Paris and Tübingen, and said I’d agreed to write a book on Foucault in the 1960s, again for Polity, with the working title of The Archaeology of Foucault immediately after I’ve finished this one on the 1950s. Since…
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In May, 1969, three years after the publication of Les Mots et les Choses, and a year after the upheavals of May 1968, Foucault presided over a colloquium at the University of Paris’s Institute of the History of Sciences and Technologies celebrating the bicentennial of Georges Cuvier’s birth (1769-1832). I…
Call for papers 6th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology Historical Epistemology and Epistemology of History Paris, 4-5-6 June 2020 The workshop is organized by Épistémologie historique. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology With the support of École doctorale de Philosophie – ED 280 (Paris 1) IHPST (UMR 8590, Paris 1/CNRS) …
Appel à Communications 6èmes Journées d’études sur l’Épistémologie Historique Épistémologie historique et épistémologie de l’histoire Paris, 4-5-6 juin 2020 (English in Separate post) Les journées d’études sont organisées par Épistémologie Historique. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology avec le soutien de École doctorale de Philosophie – ED 280 (Paris 1) …
Alan McKinlay (2009) Foucault, plague, Defoe, Culture and Organization, 15:2, 167-184 https://doi.org/10.1080/14759550902925336 Abstract For Foucault, the experience of plague is a vital moment in the development of new techniques of power and ways of thinking about the social world. Plague compels city or state authorities to take extreme measures to control disease. Quarantine, of the …
