Cory Wimberly, How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public (Routledge: New York, 2020). How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly …
Razvan Amironesei and Caleb Scoville, Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (5), pp. 133-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419850277 Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call …
Gislason, M.K. (2013), West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness, 35: 188-199. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01535.x open access Abstract The West Nile virus (WNV), as it was presented in the texts and discourses on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) website during its initial emergence, was an effect of …
Aaron Schuster, The Debt Drive: Philosophical Anthropology and Political Economy “Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference. Abstract: The philosophical conception of the human being as a being whose existence precedes its essence, defined by its radical openness and fundamentally historical character was, for the twentieth century, part and parcel of …
Thacker, Eugene. “The Shadows of Atheology: Epidemics, Power and Life after Foucault.” Theory, Culture & Society 26, no. 6 (November 2009): 134–52. doi:10.1177/0263276409347698. Abstract This essay examines a hidden link in biopolitical thinking after Foucault — the relation between biology and theology. The result is a turn away from the dichotomy of life/death and towards …
Daniel Zamora et Jean-Yves Pranchère, Foucault et le néolibéralisme : (1/2), Ballast, 24 janvier 2020 Entretien inédit pour le site de Ballast En 2014, le sociologue Daniel Zamora était déjà venu nous parler de Michel Foucault suite à la parution son livre collectif Critiquer Foucault. Aux côtés de Mitchell Dean, professeur de sociologie et de …
Daniel Zamora et Mitchel Dean, Le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution. Foucault après Mai 68, Lux, 2019. Will be published in English by Verso in 2020 La dernière décennie de Michel Foucault a coïncidé avec l’agonie des espoirs de transformation sociale qui avaient marqué l’après-guerre. Face à cette «fin de la révolution», …
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Michel Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, forthcoming April 2020. Nothing on the publisher sites yet, but it is listed in online bookstores. More details when available. This is a substantial text by Foucault which seems to have begun as a course at Lille, but…
Toby Svoboda, Foucault on Correspondence as a Technique of the Self, Le foucaldien 6, no. 1 (2020): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.69 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Open access Abstract This paper begins with a discussion of Foucault’s examination of Seneca’s epistles in his late essay, “Self Writing.” I argue that Foucault offers an accurate …
Stephen L. Roberts (2019). Big Data, Algorithmic Governmentality and the Regulation of Pandemic Risk. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 10(1), 94-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2019.6 Abstract This article investigates the rise of algorithmic disease surveillance systems as novel technologies of risk analysis utilised to regulate pandemic outbreaks in an era of big data. Critically, the article demonstrates how …
