Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014) The Productive Body. Translated and introduced by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. London: Zero Books. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism’s transformation of the body is related to the rise of …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoOhhh4aJg I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this here, including the link to the book of the…
M. Alejandra Energici, José Antonio Román B., Claudio Ramos Z. y Sebastián Ibarra G., Solidaridad en la gubernamentalidad liberal avanzada: un análisis en piezas publicitarias, Polis, Revista Latinoamerica, 32, 2012 https://journals.openedition.org/polis/6619 Resúmenes El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre la manera en que en los últimos veinte años la promoción de un determinado tipo de solidaridad …
Malin Ideland, Claes Malmberg, Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2015) Environmental Education Research, 21(2), 173–182 published online Feb 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.879696 Abstract This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure …
Tom Boland, Critique is a thing of this world: Towards a genealogy of critique (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695113500972 Abstract Although Foucault was clearly a critical thinker, his approach also provides for the possibility of a genealogy of critique. Such an approach problematizes critique, and I trace the emergent …
Stuart J. Murray, Allegories of the Bioethical: Reading J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Journal of Medical Humanities, 35, 321–334 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9273-9 Abstract This essay reads J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Diary of a Bad Year, as an occasion to problematize contemporary bioethical (and neoliberal) paradigms. Coetzee’s rhetorical strategies are analyzed to better understand the “scene …
One of those ubiquitous internet quizzes that circulate. This one’s on BuzzFeed: Which philosopher are you?, Buzzfeed, 1 March 2014 To tell the truth, I was surprised that I actually got Michel Foucault in response to the somewhat left field questions – but years of exposure to his work is bound to rub off somehow! …
Gregory Bowden, Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects (2014) History of the Human Sciences, 27 (1), pp. 88-107. Abstract This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity. These programmatic texts grapple with a contradiction: on one hand, …
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Harry O. Maier, Soja’s thirdspace, Foucault’s heterotopia and de Certeau’s practice: Time-space and social geography in emergent Christianity (2013) Historical Social Research, 38 (3), pp. 76-92. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.38.2013.3.76-92 Abstract This essay uses analytical tools developed by Edward Soja, Michel Foucault, and Michel de Certeau to investigate time-space configurations in the religious movements inaugurated by Jesus and …
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