Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, The Skripal Case Through the Lens of Critical Legal Theory, Academia.edu, 2018 How would Michel Foucault interpret the Skripal affair unfolding before our eyes into a major crisis between Russia and the West? This article seeks to draw on the methodology and insights of critical legal theory to analyze and deconstruct the …
Benno Premsela Lecture 2017 by Paul B. Preciado Philosopher, curator and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado gave the 2017 Benno Premsela Lecture during Thursday Night Live! at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Preciado is one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexual politics, in this lecture he addressed architecture as a technology of …
Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past Editor’s note: old news A group show at Paris’s Galerie Charlot uses bygone tools and techniques to explore modern media. PARIS — Curator Valentina Peri has made smart, cross-generational, idea-based choices when formulating her excellent group show Archéonauts, the best of the Paris season. Citing Michel Foucault’s Archeology of Knowledge, the …
Žitko, M. Governmentality verus moral economy: notes on the debt crisis (2018) Innovation, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2018.1429897 Abstract In this paper we revisit the concepts of governmentality and moral economy in the context of subordinate or dependent financialization. Michel Foucault and E.P. Thompson have introducted these concepts in order to capture the …
Keshet, Y., Popper-Giveon, A. The undisciplined patient in neoliberal society: conscious, informed and intuitive health behaviours (2018) Health, Risk and Society, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2018.1432757 Abstract Applying Foucault’s theoretical concept of discipline, the present article uses the term undisciplined patients to describe those who resist medical authority, defy conventional medical interpretations concerning …
Editor’s note: John Sturrock was an early commentator French theory and Foucault, cf his 1980 edited book Structuralism and Since. See this article in The Times – but needs a subscription. John Sturrock, 1930–2017 ADRIAN TAHOURDIN, Times Literary Supplement, September 5 2017 Anyone who met John Sturrock could not but be struck by how English …
Source: The Biscuit Collection of Michel Foucault | The Dots, Artist William Dalton A concept that used the format of a limited edition set of prints to communicate Michel Foucault’s philosophies of heterotopias and utopias. Inside the box are 30 photographs of biscuits unusually customised to describe either a heterotopia or a utopia. Foucault’s concepts …
Foth T, Lange J, Smith K. Nursing history as philosophy—towards a critical history of nursing. Nursing Philosophy. 2018 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12210 Abstract Mainstream nursing history often positions itself in opposition to philosophy and many nursing historians are reticent of theorizing. In the quest to illuminate the lives of nurses and women current historical approaches are driven …
Brendon Murphy & Jay Sanderson (2018) Soft law, responsibility and the biopolitics of front-of-pack food labels, Griffith Law Review, 26:3, 355-377. DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2017.1436371 ABSTRACT Front-of-pack (FOP) food labels are increasingly used by government and industry to provide nutrition information to consumers for the promotion of healthier eating habits. However, quantitative and qualitative research into the …
Alister Wedderburn, Tragedy, genealogy and theories of International Relations (2018) European Journal of International Relations, 24 (1), pp. 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116689131 Abstract This article interrogates the role of tragedy within the work of International Relations theorists including Michael Dillon, Mervyn Frost, Richard Ned Lebow and Hans Morgenthau. It argues that a tragic sensibility is a constituent …
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