Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault has now been republished by Verso, with a new afterword by me. It’s currently available with a 30% discount on the Verso site, with bundled e-book. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
First edition (in a protective wrap), second edition, current edition and translation I’ve been continuing work on The Early Foucault manuscript, which is coming together quite well. After the Christmas and New Year break, I submitted a book review and chapter on quite different topics. I’m now in Paris, where…
Gary Gutting (1942-2019), 3am magazine, First posted: Sunday, January 20th, 2019. Gary Gutting, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Gutting worked on philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, contemporary French philosophy, and contemporary analytic philosophy. He was well-known for his substantial work in public philosophy, authoring several columns …
Haskaj, F. From biopower to necroeconomies: Neoliberalism, biopower and death economies (2018) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 44 (10), pp. 1148-1168. DOI: 10.1177/0191453718772596 Open access Abstract The deaths of millions from war, genocide, poverty and famine are symptomatic of a crisis that extends beyond site-specific failures of governance, culture or economies. Rather than reiterate standard critiques …
Michael A. Peters and Danilo Taglietti, Deleuze’s rhizomatic analysis of Foucault: Resources for a new sociology? (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1551831 Abstract This paper analyses and examines Deleuze’s Foucault as a means of investigating intellectual resources for a new sociology–one that, in Foucault’s name, is neither foundationalist nor representationalist but genuinely other than the …
Koopman, C. Information before information theory: The politics of data beyond the perspective of communication (2019) New Media and Society, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1177/1461444818820300 Abstract Scholarship on the politics of new media widely assumes that communication functions as a sufficient conceptual paradigm for critically assessing new media politics. This article argues that communication-centric …
Karsten Schubert Freiheit als Kritik. Sozialphilosophie nach Foucault, Bielefeld: transcript 2018 Leseprobe (PDF) Wie können Freiheit und Widerstand innerhalb von Foucaults Theorie der Macht und Subjektivierung konzipiert werden? Karsten Schubert liefert die erste systematische Rekonstruktion der sozialphilosophischen Debatte um Freiheit bei Foucault und eine neue Lösung für das Freiheitsproblem: Freiheit als die Fähigkeit zur reflexiven …
Borderlands, Issue 17.2, 2018 Migration and Mobility Politics Open access. The contributions from Richie Wyver, Steven Farry, Fabiane Ramos, Mahmoud Kesharvarz and Eric Snodgrass, and Lewis Rarm, shine light upon the complex production of otherness both within and across the borders of the contemporary nation-state. The authors employ a range of critical tools, from Bhabha’s …
Mingjie Tang, L’usage de la subjectivité : Foucault, une archéologie de la relation, L’Harmattan. Collection: Quelle drôle d’époque ! Philosophie Sciences Humaines Les travaux de Foucault sur l’histoire de la subjectivité analysent la manière dont s’est formé et a fonctionné le concept d’homme : comment il a agrégé des éléments hétérogènes pour imposer son évidence …
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