David R. Howarth, Poststructuralism and After: Structure, Subjectivity and Power Palgrave Macmillan, October 2013 ISBN: 978-1-137-26697-2, ISBN10: 1-137-26697-X Poststructuralism and After provides a comprehensive, innovative and lucid account of contemporary poststructuralist theory, which probes its limits, explores rival theoretical approaches, and elaborates new concepts and logics. The book distils and articulates the basic philosophical assumptions …
Faye Linda Wachs and Laura Frances Chase, Explaining the failure of an obesity intervention: Combining Bourdieu’s symbolic violence and the Foucault’s microphysics of power to reconsider state interventions (2013) Sociology of Sport Journal, 30 (2), pp. 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.30.2.111 Abstract This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. …
Colin Koopman, From Biopower to Infopower?: A Genealogy of One Aspect of Contemporary Politics Text on youtube Colin Koopman, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, spoke at Oregon State University on December 3rd, 2013. A wide number of contemporary political assemblages from mass surveillance to finance capitalism to big data suggest …
Alberto Fragio, Blumenberg y Foucault: El análisid del poder pastoral como un ensayo de metaforología política, Universitas Philosophica. 2013, vol.30, n.60, pp. 83-98. ISSN 0120-5323. Full PDF Resumen En el verano de 1960 Foucault hubo de escribir a Blumenbergcon motivo de la organización de una conferencia en laUniversidad de Hamburgo a cargo de Maurice de Gandillac.La …
Antoine Garapon, Michel Foucault, visionnaire du droit contemporain, Raisons politiques, 2013/4 (N° 52), pp. 39-49 https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.052.0039 Garapon, A. (2013). Michel Foucault: Visionary Insight Into Contemporary Law. Raisons politiques, No 52(4), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.052.0039. Résumé Cet article analyse les mutations contemporaines du droit. Il constate une évolution paradoxaledes pratiques juridiques néolibérales « à l’ombre du droit » …
Biopolitique, Gouvernementalité, Dispositifs (de sécurité). Concepts pour l’étude de l’International? Conférence internationale Biopolitics, Governmentality, (security) Dispositifs. Concepts for the Study of the International? International Conference PDF of program in English PDF en français Website Co-organisée par l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, le Centre d’études et de recherches internationales Avec le soutien de l’IRI/PUC-Rio (Brasil),le …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so I’m half-way through a first fairly quick read. I use…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes suggest that this course should be seen as developing the…
Peter Sloterdijk, Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault, Translated by Thomas Dunlap with a foreword by Creston Davis. Columbia University Press, 2013 Publisher’s page Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world’s most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in …
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