Klein, S. “A Sealed Rectilinear Planet”: The Skyscraper as Vertical Heterotopia in J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Ben Wheatley’s Screen Adaptation (2019) Space and Culture, Article in Press. DOI: 10.1177/1206331218822950 Abstract This article addresses the role of vertical detachment in J. G. Ballard’s novel High-Rise (1975/2006) and its recent screen adaptation by Ben Wheatley (2015) …
Papastephanou, M. Of(f) Course: Michel Foucault, the Mobile Philosopher and his Dreamworlds (2019) Critical Horizons, Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2019.1563994 Abstract Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: “I can already hear the French laughing, but I know that they …
Jenkins, B. A guaranteed basic income and the aesthetics of existence (2019) Journal of Cultural Economy, 12 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1504227 Abstract The recent implementation of various guaranteed basic income (GBI) trials presents an opportunity to consider how such policies should be evaluated. If past experience is any guide, they will be judged primarily …
Dale, E. Anopticism: Invisible Populations and the Power of Not Seeing (2019) International Journal of Historical Archaeology, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-018-0493-y Abstract Utilizing Foucault’s theory of panopticism, social scientists have consistently studied the ways past populations were made visible and how this served as a form of power. Understudied, however, are the ways …
Kantola, A., Seeck, H., Mannevuo, M. Affect in governmentality: Top executives managing the affective milieu of market liberalisation (2019) Organization, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1177/1350508418821002 Abstract This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. …
Huang, G., Xue, D., Wang, Y., Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China (2019) International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12730 Abstract A new policy approach that seeks to formalize street vendors by immobilizing them in designated places has been taken as an alternative …
T shirt: 4 Garçons dans le vent post-moderne de Orata. Deleuze, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida
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The wonderful IMEC – the reading room and library is in the Abbey building itself Since the last update I have been continuing to work on several different aspects of the work for both The Early Foucault and a planned book on the 1960s. Initially I finished up the work comparing…
Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …
Stuart Elden, Canguilhem, Polity Press, 2019 Georges Canguilhem (1904-95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis in philosophy on the concept …
