Cotter, S. Chomsky versus Foucault, and the Problem of Knowledge in Translation (2023) Know, 7 (2), pp. 171-183. DOI: 10.1086/727781 Extract […] With the advantage of several decades on Said’s 1999 essay, we may compare the Reflexive Water translation with the original debate, available on YouTube.13 Despite occasional markers of conversational verisimilitude (“yeah” or “may …
Michel Foucault et le christianisme – journée d’étude Samedi 30 novembre 2024 10h – 17h Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette 760 Rte de la Tourette 69210 Éveux, France Réserver son billet Présentation À l’occasion du 40e anniversaire de la mort de Michel Foucault et de la parution de la nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de …
Seminar: Resistance and Pleasure in Foucault: Recovering a Lost Connection? The University of Warwick invites you to a two-day seminar exploring the connections between resistance and pleasure through Michel Foucault’s thought. This seminar is part of the World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After series. Event Information Date: Friday, October 25th 2024 Location: Ramphal Building R1.13, University of …
Chu, Y. Cartooning COVID-19 in China (2023) Critical Arts, 37 (4), pp. 39-56. DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2290689 Abstract The paper offers a discourse analysis of the visuality of COVID-19 cartoons published in three media outlets in China: Satire and Humour, circulated in the domestic market, China Daily, targeting an international anglophone readership, and an alternative, critical voice …
Vachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming Press. 978-9925-8118-8-5. Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence, written by Wittgenstein and Foucault scholar Giorgio Vachnadze, draws a circle around many topics that have been important to Becoming’s editorial line, from epistemology to cybernetics, biopolitics, philosophy of music and semiology. The …
Kazharski, A. On “Westsplaining,” Realism, and Technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian Reading of the Realist Commentary on Ukraine (2024) Journal of Regional Security, 19 (1), pp. 77-96. DOI: 10.5937/JRS19-48501 Abstract The article offers a Foucauldian reading of the Western realist commentary on the Russo-Ukrainian war which often faces the charges of “Westsplaining.” It situates …
Aleksandra Wójtowicz, The Staszic Palace as Affective Heterotopia : New Category of Spatial Description, Peter Lang, 2024 Summary The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character. The book …
Li, J. Interdiscursivity through Foucault’s dreams of the plague: discursive constructions of the covid-19 pandemic in The New York Times (2024) Journal of Multicultural Discourses Abstract Adopting an interdiscursive approach to text and discourse, this study investigates the complex and interwoven discursive relations between various social and discursive practices in The New York Times’s representation …
Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, Edited by Carson Welch, Verso, 2024. Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from ‘America’s leading Marxist critic’ Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible …
Joseph, J. Authoritarianism, Governmentality and the COVID-19 Response (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2383241 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic raises important questions about biopolitics and governmentality, not least, what are the limitations of governing through not governing too much? Important questions concern the role of the state, citizenship, privacy, and concerns about populist movements and personal freedom. …
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