In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Foucault in Brazil Review of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Lamparina 2016), 176 pages Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman, Theory Culture and Society, 22 March 2017 Open access Abstract: Michel Foucault visited Brazil five times from 1965 to 1976 yet the details …
Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même Conférences prononcées à l’Université Victoria de Toronto Vrin – Philosophie du présent 296 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2749-3 – mars 2017 À la fin du premier semestre 1982, Michel Foucault prononce à l’Université Victoria de Toronto un cycle de conférences intitulé Dire vrai sur soi-même. Le …
Les Samedis du Collège international de philosophie Débat autour du livre de Daniele Lorenzini “Éthique et politique de soi. Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire” (Paris, Vrin, 2015) avec Frédéric Gros (Sciences Po), Orazio Irrera (Paris 8/CIPh), Daniele Lorenzini (Paris 1/Columbia University), Philippe Sabot (Lille 3) Samedi 25 mars 2017, 10h-13h Bibliothèque Marguerite …
Matteo Pasquinelli “Arcana Mathematica Imperii: The Evolution of Western Computational Norms”, in: Maria Hlavajova et al. (eds) Former West. Art and the Contemporary After 1989. MIT Press, 2017. Etymologically, statistics is knowledge of the state, of the forces and resources that characterize a state at a given moment . . . this was an explicit …
Colin Koopman, The power thinker, Aeon, 15 March 2017 Imagine you are asked to compose an ultra-short history of philosophy. Perhaps you’ve been challenged to squeeze the impossibly sprawling diversity of philosophy itself into just a few tweets. You could do worse than to search for the single word that best captures the ideas of …
Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, & Lars Fynbo (2017). Analysing the significance of silence in qualitative interviewing: questioning and shifting power relations. Qualitative Research, February https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117694220 Abstract In this article we analyse the significance of silence in qualitative interviews with 36 individuals interviewed about high-risk, illegal activities. We describe how silence expresses a dynamic power relationship between …
Dušan Marinković and Dušan Ristić, Foucault’s ‘Hall of Mirrors’: an Investigation into Geo‐Epistemology Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography Vol. 98 , Iss. 2,2016 DOI: 10.1111/geob.12092 Abstract In this article we aim to single out a part of Foucault’s trihedrals of spatialization – discourses and practices, that is, technologies of power that have their spatialized …
Varea, V., Pang, B. Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies (2016) Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1228625 Abstract Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers. When …
Edwards, R. Competence-based education and the limitations of critique (2016) International Journal of Training Research, 14 (3), pp. 244-255. DOI: 10.1080/14480220.2016.1254366 Abstract Drawing upon the work of Foucault and Latour, this article reflects on 25 years of critique of competence-based education and its continuing strength as a way of framing education and training. Using an …
Ja’afar, Z., Md. Yusof, N., Ibrahim, N. Revisioning history: A deconstructionist reading of a learner’s multimodal text, ‘Revenge’ (2016) Asian Social Science, 12 (8), pp. 64-73. DOI: 10.5539/ass.v12n8p64 Abstract Recent interest in multimodality recognizes the integration of text and image in meaning-making as representing reality. It has also been argued that with the use of …
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