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 …
Šlesingerová, E. Biopower imagined: Biotechnological art and life engineering (2018) Social Science Information, 57 (1), pp. 59-76. DOI: 10.1177/0539018417745164 Abstract We are witnessing profound changes in our societies via biosciences, biotechnologization, and digitalization. The influence and application of specific engineering rationality and cybernetic perspectives to the complex systems of living structures and to the language …
Richard Lynch, Foucault’s Critical Ethics, Fordham University Press, 2016 DESCRIPTION The central thesis of Foucault’s Critical Ethics is that Foucault’s account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations of …
Heterotopic space opera | Vue Weekly, September 7, 2017 by Stephan Boissonneault Editor’s note: old news Travis McEwen’s exhibit tackles themes in an inventive sci-fi world Working in the medium of vibrant painting, Travis McEwen explores the themes of gender identity, queerness, science fiction, and the abstract in his exhibit, The Arch: Plans for a Heterotopic …
Christian Laval : Foucault, Bourdieu et la question néolibérale, La Découverte – Mars 2018 Foucault et Bourdieu ont tous deux désigné leur époque comme celle du néolibéralisme. Un terme qui caractérise toujours parfaitement la nôtre. En prenant soin de suivre le contexte propre à chacun, Christian Laval relève, parmi les analyses des deux intellectuels, ce …
Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? | Books | The Guardian Blake Morrison Sat 10 Mar Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies And then there’s Foucault, the fourth volume of whose major …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My review essay of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair is now available in Theory, Culture and Society. The essay will appear in the annual review of the journal later this year, but this version is open access. Almost thirty-four years after his death, the book…
L’œuvre de jeunesse de Michel Foucault : psychopathologie, phénoménologie et anthropologie Appel à participation à un atelier doctoral sur l’œuvre de Michel Foucault Université de Lübeck, 12-14.07.2018 PDF of call for Papers. French and German Cet atelier doctoral sera focalisé sur des textes et manuscrits de jeunesse de Foucault, dans le cadre de ses premiers …
This graphic novel is the biography of a painting. But perhaps it’s really about reality Review by Debkumar Mitra, Scroll.in, Published Oct 15, 2017 Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares’s ‘The Ladies-In-Waiting’ tries to lift the veil of mystery over Velázquez’s famous work ‘Las Meninas’. A fictional account of a mysterious and famous painting and a …
Helen Lock, The transformative effect of university-level learning inside prisons | Times Higher Education Features Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports. March 15, 2018 PDF if you can’t access online Extracts […] HMP Isis is located in south-east London, not …
