Franck Salaün, Besoin de fiction. Sur l’expérience littéraire de la pensée et le concept de fiction pensante, Paris, Hermann, coll. “Fictions pensantes”, 2010 Présentation de l’éditeur : Les fictions pensent-elles ? On ne se lasse pas de le dire : l’homme est un animal fabulateur, un producteur de fictions. Notre besoin de fiction est même impossible à rassasier. …
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies at 92 By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 11, 2012, New York Times Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist whose 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness” questioned the legitimacy of his field and provided the intellectual grounding for generations of critics, patient advocates and antipsychiatry activists, …
Michel Foucault, Du Gouvernement des vivants. Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980) Date de parution 25/10/2012 Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Collection Hautes Etudes 320 pages – 25 € TTC Publisher’s site Du Gouvernement des vivants est un cours charnière. Prononcé au Collège de France au premier trimestre 1980, Michel Foucault y poursuit cette histoire des « …
Exhibition of John Miller at Praz-Delavallade Gallery in Paris Paris, 10 September 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA). From 8 September to 11 November 2012, the Praz-Delavallade Gallery in Paris is displaying “The Petrified Forest”, a new exhibition of artist John Miller. John Miller’s work is characterised by a multiform aspect: painting, sculpture, photography, and video. …
Graham, Helen (2012). “Scaling governmentality: Museums, co-production and re-calibrations of the ‘logic of culture’”. Cultural studies, 26 (4), pp. 565-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.679285 Abstract This article explores contemporary uses of museum co-production for public policy through a sustained theoretical engagement with Tony Bennett’s work on museums as an ‘object of government’. The specific focus is a theoretical …
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Foucault’s 1976 lecture ‘The Mesh of Power’ is available online in English (with a link to the French) at Viewpoint Magazine. This lecture was previously translated by Gerald Moore for the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection Jeremy Crampton and I edited. But this version includes the discussion that…
Curso de Extensão Universitária: “O Pensamento arqueológico de Foucault” (UNESP-Marília) O curso de extensão está ocorrendo na sala 42. Horário: 09:00h às 12:00h. Período: todas as quintas, até 20/12/2012. Carga horária: 90 horas. Acesso ao Site Via Grupo de Estudos Foucaultianos
Esposito, R. The dispositif of the person, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 17-30 https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111403104 Abstract In this essay one of Italy’s leading philosophers examines the category of person from legal, historical, and biopolitical perspectives. Reading texts ranging from Roman law to Christian theology to bioethics, Esposito shows how …
Street, A.A , Coleman, S.B. Introduction: Real and imagined spaces, Space and Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 4-17 https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211421852 Abstract The hospital’s ambiguous relationship to everyday social space has long been a central theme of hospital ethnography. Often, hospitals are presented either as isolated “islands” defined by biomedical regulation of space (and …
Biebricher, Thomas & Frieder Vogelmann, Governmentality and State Theory: Reinventing the Reinvented Wheel?, Theory & Event, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2012 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/484422 Abstract In this paper we pose the question what constitutes the originality of governmentality as a state analytical framework by confronting it with alternative contemporary approaches in state theory, suggesting that the latter …
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