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This is the first instalment in a three-part series. Part 2. I tweet, therefore I become Part 3. The call of the crowd ——————————————- You start the day bleary-eyed and anxious. You stayed up late last night working on a post for your blog, gathering facts and memes from…
David Nowell Smith, Surfaces: Painterly illusion, metaphysical depth, Paragraph, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-406 https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2012.0066 Abstract This essay analyses the way in which the relation between surface and depth in modern painting is endowed with philosophical significance in the work of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry. Whereas Foucault considered the work …
Marnia Lazreg, Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles? (2013) Contemporary Arab Affairs, 6 (1), pp. 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2012.757884 Abstract This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ’empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ …
Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War, Duke University Press, 2013 Description Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser’s career have been made available in French since his death …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Burke A. Hendrix, Where should we expect social change in non-ideal theory? (2013) Political Theory, 41 (1), pp. 116-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591712463201 Abstract This essay considers the relationship between ideal theory and non-ideal theory. It begins with Rawls’s conception of ideal theory and A. John Simmons’s articulation of non-ideal theory. Both defend the priority of ideal theory …
Eva Vakirtzi, Phil Bayliss, Towards a Foucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification (2013) Journal of Philosophy of Education Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 364–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12004 Abstract The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of …
Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts, Warwick University On the afternoon of 29 January 2013 we hosted a special public lecture by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The one-hour lecture was entitled ‘General Organology, Digital Studies and the Neurosciences’ and offered a succinct account of some of the major preoccupations of Stiegler’s groundbreaking …
Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention.…
Alissa Overend, Candida, food discipline and the dietary taming of uncertainty (2013) Food, Culture and Society, 16 (1), pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13500468045560 Abstract Discourses of nutritional health are strongly associated with illness, and have recently been linked to the prevalence and management of chronic undefined disorders. Using the case of Candida-a yeast-related disorder of vague symptomatology-I …
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