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It’s been steady progress in the last part of summer on the manuscript of The Early Foucault. I had a few days in Paris in mid-September, where I did my usual pattern of working in the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque Nationale when it was open, and then heading to either the…
Laboratorio “archeologia filosofica” (www.archeologiafilosofica.it) is proud to present the new book series directed by Alessandro Baccarin and Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, for Efesto publisher. The aim of the series is to follow the foucauldian direction of The Archaeology of Knowledge, with the philosophical problematizations elaborated by Enzo Melandri and Giorgio Agamben, along the genealogical research that …
Elliott, B. Work, culture, and play in the neoliberal condition (2018) Information Communication and Society, 21 (9), pp. 1279-1292. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476568 Abstract Foucault’s [2008. The birth of biopolitics: Lectures at the collège de France 1978–1979. New York, NY: Picador] lectures on neoliberalism present a powerful challenge to the Marxist critique of capitalist work as alienating …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’m pleased to share the cover design of my forthcoming book Canguilhem (Polity, 2019). It’s part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series and is available to preorder from Wiley in ebook, paperback and hardcover. The book is due for publication in February in the UK, and April in the rest of the…
Gandy, O.H., Jr., Nemorin, S. Toward a political economy of nudge: smart city variations (2018) Information Communication and Society, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477969 Abstract Transformations in strategies of governmentality have been implemented around the globe through behavioral interventions characterized as ‘nudges.’ This article will focus on the implementation of these practices within …
Valentim, I.V.L. Between Academic Pimping and Moral Harassment in Higher Education: an Autoethnography in a Brazilian Public University (2018) Journal of Academic Ethics, 16 (2), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1007/s10805-018-9300-y Abstract It is shocking to notice that universities still research few of what daily happens inside their walls. Even though knowledge amount to just a small …
Voase, R. Holidays under the hegemony of hyper-connectivity: getting away, but unable to escape? (2018) Leisure Studies, pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2018.1475503 Abstract Holidays have been imagined as occasions of escape and liminal leisure. This conceptualisation requires re-evaluation as a consequence of the widespread adoption of portable communication devices (smartphones) and the use …
Guy, S., Muchtar, O., Ronel, N. How Can Governmental Positive Power Decrease Violence in Crime-Oriented Arenas? The Case of English Football (2018) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62 (8), pp. 2488-2504. DOI: 10.1177/0306624X17694375 Abstract This article will survey the dramatic change English football had undergone since the end of the last century. …
Kabgani, S., Zargarian, A., Clarke, M. The morbid dance of ideology on the scaffold: On subjectivity and capital punishment in Iran (2018) Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1057/s41282-018-0083-2 Abstract In this paper we examine the discursive structures adopted by the Iranian state in the context of public execution. Specifically, we …
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