Sonya E. Pritzker & Whitney L. Duncan, Technologies of the Social: Family Constellation Therapy and the Remodeling of Relational Selfhood in China and Mexico (2019) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 43 (3), pp. 468-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09632-x Abstract In this article, we investigate how an increasingly popular therapeutic modality, family constellation therapy (FCT), functions simultaneously as a technology …
Rasker, Maya. “A Letter to Foucault.” In Artistic Research and Literature, edited by Caduff Corina and Wälchli Tan, 35-46. Boston: Brill, 2019. Open access Abstract: Investigating in what way some aspects of Foucault’s work can be fruitful to ‘think’ writing-as-research, a letter to Foucault as academic fiction unravels and valuates the paradoxes that emerge from connecting …
Griffin, R. J. (2019). The Profession of Authorship. In A Companion to the History of the Book (eds S. Eliot and J. Rose), Wiley doi:10.1002/9781119018193.ch51 This chapter is an overview of methodologies and scholarship on authorship that discusses the influence of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in the context of the history of the book, …
Andrew Scull, Psychiatry and Its Discontents. University of California Press, July 2019 Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of …
David Langwallner, Public Intellectual Series: Michel Foucault, Cassandra Voices, December 7 2019 […] Alone among Post-Modernists, Foucault’s methodology was empiricist and historicist. Rather than relying on incomprehensible prose and bizarre generalisations he adopted inductive reasoning. As an historian of ideas, we don’t simply find him inventing absurd abstractions, but analysing real existing data. […] For …
materiali foucaultiani volume VII, number 13-14 (January-December 2018) TABLE OF CONTENTS Il cantiere archeologico e la questione della critica (pp. 4-8) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli The final Foucault and Education Introduction. The final Foucault and Education (pp. 9-27) Roberto Serpieri, Emiliano Grimaldi, Stephen J. Ball Foucault and Neoliberalism. A response to …
Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life. A Genealogy of Political Erasure, Columbia University Press, 2019 In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen’s existence be removed …
A Time for Critique, Edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt Columbia University Press, 2019 In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking—its assumptions, …
VValérie Larroche, The Dispositif: A Concept for Information and Communication Sciences, Wiley, 2019 DESCRIPTION The notion of the dispositif (dispositive) is particularly relevant for understanding phenomena where one can observe the reproducibility of distributed technical activities, operational or discursive, between human and non-human actors. This book reviews the concept of the dispositive through various disciplinary …
Barry, Laurence & Fisher, Eran. Digital audiences and the deconstruction of the collective, Subjectivity (2019) 12: 210. DOI: 10.1057/s41286-019-00073-w Abstract This paper aims at characterizing the change that occurred in audience conception with the advent of big data technologies. We argue that a good place to analyze this change is in the marketing techniques geared …
