KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE SATURDAY JUNE 23 2018 FOUCAULT AND SHAKESPEARE 10.00: Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University) Jonathan Dollimore ‘Foucault, Shakespeare and Cultural Materialism’ 11.00: Coffee (Temple Pavilion) 11.30: Chair: Kélina Gotman (King’s College University of London) ‘Foucault, Theatre, Critique’ Thomas Brockelman (Le Moyne College) ‘Foucault and Lacan Interpret Las Meninas: On the …
Stuart Elden, Do We Need a New Biography of Michel Foucault?, American Book Review, Volume 39, Number 2/3, January/April 2018 pp. 12-23 In the 34 years since his death, there has been no lack of interest in Michel Foucault’s work. His ideas continue to be analysed, critiqued, utilised, and cited, across an ever-broadening range of …
Histories of Violence: Nonviolence and the Ghost of Fascism – Los Angeles Review of Books MAY 21, 2018 This conversation is with Todd May, who is a political philosopher and social activist based at Clemson University. Among his many books are, more recently, A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability (2017) and Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical …
Catherine Soussloff, “Foucault on Painting” (U Minnesota Press, 2017) podcast In Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Catherine Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. Throughout his career, he examined painting and the image as he pursued critical elements …
Foucault: The Birth of Poweris reviewed by Nancy Luxon in Perspectives in Politics, and by JM Moore in Justice, Power and Resistance. That book, and Foucault’s Last Decadeare also discussed in a review essay by Mike Gane in Cultural Politics, which also looks at two of Foucault’s courses. The Gane essay is critical, the Moore one is very positive, while the Luxon is positive but opens up some issues about how we might use Foucault too. The Moore one is open access, the others are behind pay-walls.
I’m not going to get into a bigger debate, especially with Gane, where there are clearly fundamental disagreements. But I will point out a few things. If I had wanted to write a book about how to use Foucault, then I would have tried to do that. I’ve been clear all along that I’m trying to write intellectual…
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Foucault and Shakespeare – symposium at Garrick’s Temple, 23 June 2018 David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. He hoped Voltaire would come. Now the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar…
Farrell, F., Lander, V. “We’re not British values teachers are we?”: Muslim teachers’ subjectivity and the governmentality of unease (2018) Educational Review, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2018.1438369 Abstract This paper is a critical investigation of a group of eight Muslim religious education (RE) teachers’ views of fundamental British values in education (FBV). Findings …
Photographing the Shiny, Kitsch Interiors of Italian Ferry Boats | AnOther, 9 May 2018 Allegra Martin is fascinated by the idea that ferries are “places suspended in time and space”, and has been photographing on board for almost a decade 20th-century philosopher Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopia – the idea that spaces exist with various layers …
Bruce Robbins, The Other Foucault (book review) | The Nation, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 At his death in 1984, Michel Foucault left a letter stating that he wanted no posthumous publication of his work. He should have known better: The hunger for further clarification and elaboration of the master’s positions would prove irresistible. So too has …
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Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Matthew Dennis and Sander Werkhoven and published by Routledge (usual comments on pricing apply). The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped…
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