Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J., Pascoe, R. Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: the effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1238402 Abstract This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary …
Sellar, S., Thompson, G. The Becoming-Statistic: Information Ontologies and Computerized Adaptive Testing in Education (2016) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 16 (5), pp. 491-501. DOI: 10.1177/1532708616655770 Abstract This article examines how computerized adaptive testing functions in relation to learning in control societies. We first document the transition from static and discrete forms of statistical work …
Quentin Molinier, La « French Theory » du spectateur, Nonfiction.fr, 2015 Compte rendu: Christian Ruby, Spectateur et politique. D’une conception crépusculaire à une conception affirmative de la culture ?, La Lettre Volée, 2014 Résumé : Qu’est-ce qu’être spectateur aujourd’hui ? Et quel est son rôle, son destin politique ? L’auteur montre en quoi les réflexions …
Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …
Multimedia artist feels free as he gets back to basics By Lin Qi, China Daily/Asia News Network Thursday, September 1, 2016 Art graduates are now increasingly opting to create installations, videos and other mixed-media pieces. But You Jin is different. The artist, who majored in multimedia art, is focusing on painting — a subject that …
Pierre Macherey, Subjectivité et normativité chez Canguilhem et Foucault Exposé présenté le 1 juin 2016 dans le cadre d’une journée d’études sur « Michel Foucault et la subjectivation » (Université Paris-Est Créteil) Lorsque Canguilhem a eu connaissance du premier grand ouvrage de Foucault, Histoire de la folie, sur lequel il a eu à rédiger, en tant que …
Gary Gutting, What Philosophy Can Do, W.W. Norton, 2016 “A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity.”—Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone Reader How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we …
On Problematization Elaborations on a Theme in “Late Foucault” By Clive Barnett, Nonsite.org, Issue 16, June 22, 2015 1. What is a “Foucault”? For at least four decades now, the ideas of Michel Foucault have resonated across a wide range of academic fields in the English-speaking academy. While this influence is perhaps most clearly felt …
Quand la CIA s’intéressait de près à Foucault, Derrida et Althusser. Le Monde, 23.03.2017 En 1985, les espions américains se félicitaient de la décomposition de la gauche intellectuelle française. Et passaient complètement à côté de la popularité croissante de ces mêmes philosophes dans leur pays. Les espions lisent de la philosophie. Ce n’est d’ailleurs pas …
Anthony Alessandrini, “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes”, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, March 23 2017 Part of a Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 272 pp., $27.00 US (pbk), ISBN 9780816699490. Full PDF Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault …
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