Alasdair J.H. Jones, On South Bank: The Production of Public Space, Routledge, 2014 Description Tensions over the production of urban public space came to the fore in summer 2013 with mass protests in Turkey sparked by a plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul. In London, concomitant proposals to refurbish an area of the ’South …
“What Do You Want Me to Regret?”: An Interview with François Ewald Johannes Boehme interviews François Ewald, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3 November 2017 NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED, in 1968, that François Ewald would one day receive the French state’s highest order for civil merit. At the time he was a young, ambitious, and …
Séminaire “Penser l’identité et le sujet avec Foucault” à Curitiba (UFPR et PUCPR) 22 et 23 novembre 2017 Ce séminaire constitue le premier volet du programme TaFac (Travailler avec Foucault: approches contemporaines). Ce séminaire sera suivi, les 19 et 20 mars 2018, d’un colloque à Lille sur le thème “Discours et politiques de l’identité – …
Edward Mendelson, Book reviews: In the depths of the digital age, Financial Review, Nov 17 2016 Extract The most socially alarming effect of the digital revolution is the state of continuous surveillance endured, with varying levels of complaisance, by everyone who uses a smartphone. Bernard Harcourt’s intellectually energetic book Exposed surveys the damage inflicted on …
Elaine Blair, Chris Kraus, Female Antihero, The New Yorker, November 21, 2016 She turned her failures as a filmmaker and in her romantic relationships into the boundary-breaking autobiographical novel “I Love Dick.” […] “I Love Dick,” Kraus’s first book, was published in 1997 by the independent press Semiotext(e) and received little notice. Semiotext(e), founded in …
Birman, J. & Hoffmann, C. (2016). Lacan et Foucault, une nouvelle lecture. La clinique lacanienne, 28,(2), 155-166. doi:10.3917/cla.028.0155. Premières lignes Les rapports entre Jacques Lacan et Michel Foucault sont plus riches qu’on le pense habituellement en rencontres entre les deux hommes et leurs œuvres. Une grande partie des malentendus provient de la différence de conceptions …
Zembylas, M. Affect and counter-conduct: cultivating action for social change in human rights education (2017) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1300573 Abstract This paper explores the entanglement between two partially connected concerns that offer the potential to animate current discussions on human rights teaching and learning: ‘affect’ and ‘counter-conduct’. Both terms are at …
Kevin S. Jobe, Foucault and the Telos of Power (2017) Critical Horizons, 18 (3), pp. 191-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2017.1293888 Abstract In this paper, I argue that the unique contributions of Foucault’s late work to critical social theory can be identified in the ways in which power relations are refined as the material condition of “politics” as distinguished …
Catherine Manathunga, Mark Selkrig, Kirsten Sadler, and (Ron) Kim Keamy, Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university (2017) Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (3), pp. 526-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1289157 Abstract Measurement of academic work has become more significant than the intellectual, pedagogical, cultural, …
Fludernik, M. Panopticisms: From fantasy to metaphor to reality (2017) Textual Practice, 31 (1), pp. 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1256675 Abstract Since Foucault’s popularisation of Bentham’s panopticon in Discipline and Punish, panopticism has become a master trope in literary criticism and inspired novelists to adopt panoptic scenarios in their work. This article follows the trajectory of the …
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