Hay, J. The automated states, automated government, and self-automation of the ‘smart’ appliance: three questions about refrigerators (2018) Media International Australia, 166 (1), pp. 57-69. DOI: 10.1177/1329878X17739014 Abstract This essay considers the automation of the everyday through ‘smart’ domestic appliance, specifically the current regime of smart refrigerators. The essay revisits and rethinks perspectives about media …
Jeihouni, M., Hooti, N. “Because it is my name!”: Miller, Proctor, and Parrhesia in The Crucible (2018) Orbis Litterarum, 73 (2), pp. 103-126. DOI: 10.1111/oli.12158 Abstract This article offers a Foucauldian reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Employing Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, we argue that John Proctor holds truth-telling as a moral virtue and accordingly …
THINKING THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE Instructor: Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte Editor: Update 12 February 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine. The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Monday, Tuesday 19:00-22:00 14,15 October – 11,12 November – 9,10 December, 2019 18 hours (3 weeks) The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore 9, rue de Médicis …
Bourse de recherche. Centre Michel Foucault Dossier et fiche de candidature L’IMEC et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à chercheur pour l’attribution de la deuxième Bourse IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) préserve et met en valeur une collection exceptionnelle d’archives dédiée à l’histoire de la pensée et de la …
Bjelić, D.I. Toward a Genealogy of the Balkan Discourses on Race (2018) Interventions, 20 (6), pp. 906-929. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2018.1492955 Abstract The ongoing racist reception of immigrants by post-communist states previously known to be class conscious, internationalist, and egalitarian naturally raises the question: how is racism possible in societies with no colonial or interracial experience? It …
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Thankfully, this book manuscript has been the main focus again of work over the past month. I’ve been continuing to work on Foucault’s relation to Dumézil, on Foucault’s time in Warsaw and Hamburg, and other things in the later 1950s. I had a couple of days in Paris where I…
Marianna Papastephanou, Michel Foucault’s limit-experience limited (2018) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (4), pp. 390-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1367661 Abstract Educational philosophy has not discussed Foucault’s publications on the Iranian Revolution and the related controversy. Foucauldian concepts are applied to education, though his only writings which ‘sidetracked’ him from exploring power within the state, namely, his journalistic accounts …
A look at just some of the work displayed at the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto Life, Jean Grant | Photography By Gabby Frank | September 25, 2019 Editor: Update 12 February 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine. The Toronto Biennial of Art is a brand-new, totally free …
Jocelyn Silver, Watch A$AP Rocky Getting His Life at Gucci, Paper Magazine, 22 Sept 2019 Today, Sunday, in Milan, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele delivered a sanitarium-inspired show, and a statement on capitalism and sanity and whether or not the two can actually co-exist. The show notes (written by Michele’s partner Giovanni Attili, an urban planning professor) …
Sandro Chignola, Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy, Power, Law, and Subjectivity. Routledge, 2018 Review Description Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted …
