The Seventh Function of Language A Novel Laurent Binet; Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by …
Silverman, D.L. Boundaries: Bourgeois Belgium and “tentacular” modernism (2017) Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244317000245 Abstract The sweep, originality, and plenitude of Jerrold Seigel’s work have transformed our field. His prolific and creative scholarship encompasses the history of ideas, the history of cultural forms, and the history of intellectuals, areas typically …
Foucault Studies Number 23: August 2017: Discipline and Punish Today Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. PDF 1-3 Special Issue on Discipline and Punish Today Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish Jörg Bernardy, Frieder Vogelmann PDF 4-9 Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and “visual citizenship” Susanne Krasmann PDF 10-26 Opening …
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Peter Miller – The Calculating Self 4 June 2011, A Conference at Birkbeck College, University of London Reflecting on 20 years of The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality Backdoor Broadcasting Company. Academic podcasts Peter Miller – The Calculating Self Over thirty years ago, it was said that we go in search of our selves through …
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Foucault: The Birth of Power is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Syamala Roberts. In Foucault: The Birth of Power, Stuart Elden outlines how the theorisation of power was the essential tool developed within Foucault’s work and political activities in the early 1970s following his return from Tunisia. Drawing…
Rodden, J. The Intellectual Species: Evolution or Extinction? (2017) Society, 54 (4), pp. 352-354. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-017-0151-8 Abstract John Rodden summarizes the thrust of his work on modern intellectual life, the theme of which is that the uncertain future of the “intellectual species“ warrants extended attention because it is inextricably tied to the ultimate fate of …
Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience (2017) Journal of Cultural Economy, 10(6), 498–509. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312 Abstract Development is concerned with the biological security and well-being of people, and so all development theory and practice are biopolitical in a fundamental sense. The paper argues that for development to be made meaningful, …
David Beer, Metric Power, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these …
Published on Jun 29, 2017 El viernes 18 de septiembre, Judith Butler dictó su segunda conferencia “Foucault, obrando mal, diciendo la verdad”. En esta ocasión, las palabras de introducción fueron las de Daniel Berisso y Facundo Giuliano, docentes a cargo del seminario “La educación entre la violencia ética y el reconocimiento responsable. Un abordaje ético-político”
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