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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Pariseau-Legault, P., Holmes, D., Murray, S.J. Understanding human enhancement technologies through critical phenomenology (2019) Nursing Philosophy, 20 (1), art. no. e12229 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12229 Abstract Human enhancement technologies raise serious ethical questions about health practices no longer content simply to treat disease, but which now also propose to “optimize” human beings’ physical, cognitive and psychological abilities. …
Michel Agier, Camps, Encampments, and Occupations: From the Heterotopia to the Urban Subject (2019) Ethnos, 84 (1), pp. 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1549578 Abstract This article aims to understand the main principles that design a worldwide landscape of precarious spaces. I argue that the increasing and more constraining policies of exclusion provoke the repeated creation of limits and …
Gunawan, M. Navigating human and non-human animal relations: Okja, foucault and animal welfare laws (2018) Alternative Law Journal, 43 (4), pp. 263-268. DOI: 10.1177/1037969X18802459 Abstract This article draws upon a Foucauldian analysis of power to conceptualise the human and non-human animal relations throughout the Netflix film Okja. The article examines how ‘super-pig’ Okja’s experiences (and …
Bennett, C. Drugs, moral panics and the dispositive (2018) Journal of Sociology, 54 (4), pp. 538-556. DOI: 10.1177/1440783317727877 Abstract The concept of ‘moral panics’ continues to be used as a framework for analysing the causes, structures and functions of social and political crises. Nonetheless, as an analytical tool, such a framework is limited in its …
Hutta, J.S. From sovereignty to technologies of dependency: Rethinking the power relations supporting violence in Brazil (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 65-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.008 Abstract Discussions in geography and cognate disciplines have considered how contemporary formations of power and politics support and give rise to violence in a range of contexts. Often, these discussions have …
Sforzini, A. (2019). Michel Foucault va au cinéma / Foucault at the Movies. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 1. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.56 Abstract This article reviews the book Foucault at the Movies, published in French in 2011 and translated into English by Clare O’Farrell in 2018. The author first discusses the general structure and aims of the volume. The article then …
