Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Duke University Press, 2023. In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman …
Fehr, Burkhard, and Panagiotis Roilos, eds. Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679740 The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis , a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures …
Christopher O’Neill, Foucault And Information Theory: On “Message Or Noise?”, Parrhesia , 39 · 2024 · (1966)1-17 Extract “Message or Noise?” is a short but highly suggestive essay, in which Michel Foucault takes up the question of medical thought and practice through the frame of information-theory – one of the few occasions throughout his enormous …
Michel Foucault, “Message or noise?”, Translated by Christopher O’Neill, Parrhesia 39 · 2024 · 18-24 Open access Extract In order to “situate” medicine amongst other forms of knowledge (savoir), we have become accustomed to the use of linear schemas. Above the level of the body, the soul; below the level of the organism, the tissues. …
William Tilleczek, Between Authority and Care, Plato’s Crito as Defense of the Philosophical Life, Dionysius, Vol. 39 (2024) Abstract This paper addresses the question as to why Socrates stays to die in prison through a novel reading of the Crito oriented by the Foucaultian notion of care (epimeleia). It argues that the Laws do not …
William Tilleczek Receives the 2024 Leo Strauss Award for “Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism”, Political Science Now, August 9, 2024 The Leo Strauss Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy. Citation from the Award Committee: Dr. Tilleczek’s …
Elden, S. (2024). Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France. History of European Ideas, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2391378 ABSTRACT This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in France. It looks at the 1951 election of a successor to Étienne Gilson at the Collège de France, for which …
Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michel Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between …
Elden, Stuart. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity.” Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 3 (2024): 571-600. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859. Abstract: The biographical links between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to …
Les Temps qui restent Newsletter L’ancien comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes, liquidé par Gallimard en 2018 au lendemain de la disparition de Claude Lanzmann, a réuni un très large collectif international, convaincu qu’une revue généraliste animée par la notion d’engagement a plus de sens que jamais dans le contexte actuel, marqué par des années …
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