Heike Delitz, Architectural Modes of Collective Existence: Architectural Sociology as a Comparative Social Theory (2018) Cultural Sociology, 12 (1), pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517718435 Abstract This article proposes a cross-cultural, comparative architectural sociology as a means of sociological analysis. It also emphasizes the social positivity of architecture. After a short overview of architectural sociology and its history, …
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Although the Shakespeare Territories book is coming out in a few months, I’ve been back working on Shakespeare. Initially this was for a summary article of the book’s argument for a short article for Territory, Politics, Governance, which should be published fairly soon. Then it has been for the third…
SCA graduate students create immersive VR project | Daily Trojan By KARLIE TERUYA, November 8, 2017 With the growth of virtual reality technology, many students are exploring innovative ways to incorporate the technology into artistic and media-related projects. Two students from the School of Cinematic Arts’ media arts and practice program have integrated a virtual …
Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: celebrating 30 years of genius | British GQ BY GEORGE CHESTERTON, 07 Aug 2017 Thirty years ago, Prince released his ninth album, a collection of extraordinary songs that became the greatest record of its generation. The pop prodigy’s postmodern magnum opus obsessed with sex, death and faith remains a milestone …
Alderton, J., Gifford, S. Teaching mathematics to lower attainers: dilemmas and discourses (2018) Research in Mathematics Education, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2017.1422010 Abstract This article draws on Foucault’s concepts of power and discourse to explore the issues of teaching mathematics to low attainers in primary schools in England. We analyse a data set …
SchumpeterMichel Foucault’s lessons for business, The Economist, Jun 21st 2018 Editor: Hidden behind Paywall Forget McKinsey. A Gallic intellectual is the key to controlling how companies are perceived NOT many businesspeople study post-war French philosophy, but they could certainly learn from it. Michel Foucault, who died in 1984, argued that how you structure information is …
Koyuncu, Emre, Animals as criminals: Towards a foucauldian analysis of animal trials Parergon, Vol. 35, No. 1, June 2018: [79]-96 Abstract: Scholarship on the early modern practice of animal trials in Europe has grown substantially in the last few decades. After a critical literature review pointing at the shortcomings of positivist approaches and of the …
Nieuwenhuis, M. Atmospheric governance: Gassing as law for the protection and killing of life (2018) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (1), pp. 78-95. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817729378 Abstract Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. …
Call for Papers Third Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop website Philevents PDF of call for papers Venue: University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, United States, United States Date: May 9–11, 2019 The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations of the contemporary. The purpose …
Opinion: Foucault fever in contemporary China – CGTN By Zhao Hong. CGTN, 2017-02-24 Guest commentary by Zheng Yiran On September 11, 2016, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Museum, a thousand people squeezed into an auditorium that can accommodate only four hundred audience. It was the Beijing Premiere of Wang Min’an’s documentary, …
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