Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 Political Science | Philosophy $29.95 | £20.05 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6 296 pp. | 6 x 8 Available January 2015 Zone books Also available from MIT Press Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and …
Booked #3: What Exactly is Neoliberalism? Timothy Shenk ▪ Dissent, April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing …
La gauche face au djihadisme: les yeux grands fermés LE MONDE | 03.03.2015 | Par Jean Birnbaum The complete article can be found on the Comité Laicité République site. (Thanks to Mauricio for this link) En 1978, le philosophe Michel Foucault arrive en Iran pour y effectuer un reportage sur la révolution islamique. Envoyé par …
Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a form of political pastorate, did not exist in ancient Greece, he did take the view, following Hegel, that the ancient …
The Islamic State’s Atrocities—and Ours John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus on March 5, 2015 This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. The description of the death of Robert-Francois Damiens, the man who attempted to kill Louis XV, is not for the faint-hearted. On March 2, 1757, in …
Jim Russell, The Existential Crisis of the American University, Pacific Standard, Mar 11, 2015 My favorite philosopher (Michel Foucault) wasn’t a philosopher so much as he was an innovative historian. Instead of casting his gaze at some well-defined era, Foucault studied the breaks between eras. Why did the model of the way the world works …
Gordon Hull, Parrhesia (Part 3): On Heidegger, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 30 March 2015 Unlike Derrida, with whom he had frequent, highly public polemics, Foucault says relatively little about Heidegger. Much of that is incidental: in a 1983 interview, for example, while talking about the postwar influence of Sartre, he notes parenthetically that …
Just in case you missed it: This post, Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality posted yesterday on Foucault News was the latest entry in the neoliberal debate.
Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault link to book details Published on 12 Mar 2015 Mark D. Jordan of the Harvard Divinity School discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School. 00:00 …
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an interview with a little-known sociologist that provoked a wave of reactions. A young Belgian scholar named Daniel Zamora claimed that …
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