Alexandre Lefebvre, The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought Genealogy 2017, 1(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy1010002 Open access Abstract This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern …
Paul Patton, Foucault on Power and Government Full text available on academia.edu Abstract: Foucault’s lectures in 1976 open with the statement of an intellectual crisis. They proceed to a series of questions about the nature of power and the ways that he has conceived of it up to this point: what is power? How is …
Neurotechnologies of justice: Neuroscience beyond the courtroom By Professor Nikolas Rose, Australian Neurolaw Database, On Soundcloud, March 2017 In this talk I will explore the actual and potential impacts of developments in neuroscience and neurotechnology in the criminal justice system beyond the courtroom. There has beenmuch discussion about the role of genetics and brain scanning …
O Poder e o Panoptismo da Cidadania, Segundo M. Foucault – Profa. Dra. Olaya Fernandez 21 de agosto de 2017 (segunda-feira) Conferência – O Poder e o Panoptismo da Cidadania, Segundo M. Foucault Conferencista: Profa. Dra. Olaya Fernandez – Universidad de La Rioja UR – Espanha Horário: 19h30min às 22h Local: Auditório Erico Verissimo, Laboratório …
Isabelle Galichon, Le récit de soi. Une pratique éthique d’émancipation, Ouverture Philosophique, Paris. L’Harmattan, 2018 Les derniers travaux de Michel Foucault peuvent être appréhendés comme une nouvelle grille de lecture pour l’analyse des pratiques d’écriture personnelle dont peut se saisir la théorie littéraire. Dans ses cours au Collège de France sur les pratiques de soi …
Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault — Philosophy and Psychology (1965), From the Verso Books blog, 9 January 2018 Watch a televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault on philosophy and psychology. A televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault, under the heading “Philosophy and Psychology,” is available to stream in …
Frieder Vogelmann, The Spell of Responsibility. Labor, Criminality, Philosophy Trans. Daniel Steuer, Bloomsbury, 2017 Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it had little ethical significance. What is the …
Giampiero Assumma THE LOWER WORLD “The Lower World” is the title of Giampiero Assumma’s photographic long term project (2001-2014) on human alienation within the context of the last six criminal lunatic asylums in Italy, named ‘Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario’ (O.P.G). These facilities, with the exception of one pioneering institution that was purely a psychiatric hospital, showed …
Amy Allen, The End of Progress. Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2016 (2017 paperback) While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and …
Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics. Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Translated by Erik Butler, Verso 2017 See also Review in The Guardian Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast …
