Anderson, Ben (2011). “Population and Affective Perception: Biopolitics and Anticipatory Action in US Counterinsurgency Doctrine”. Antipode, 43 (2), p. 205-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00804.x Abstract This paper analyses the biopolitical logics of current US counterinsurgency doctrine in the context of the multiple forms of biopower that make up the “war on terror”. It argues that counterinsurgency doctrine aims …
« Le rôle de la vérité dans la généalogie foucaldienne du sujet moderne ». Public lecture by Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil/Università « La Sapienza » di Roma) Saturday, the 21st January 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) Hosted by the Séminaire Foucault, organised …
Schmidt, James (2011). “Misunderstanding the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’: Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault”. History of European ideas, 37 (1), p. 43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2010.08.002 Abstract In his 1969 Trevelyan Lectures, Franco Venturi argued that Kant’s response to the question “What is Enlightenment?” has tended to promote a “philosophical interpretation” of the Enlightenment that leads scholars away from …
Jenkins, Laura (2011). “The Difference Genealogy Makes: Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy”. Political studies, 59 (1), p. 156-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00844.x Abstract Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them …
Martina Tazzioli, Politiche della verità. Michel Foucault e il neoliberalismo Ombre Corte, 2011 Si può parlare di una funzione critica del liberalismo inteso come “stile governamentale” e non (solo) come tecnologia di potere? Fino a che punto, tuttavia, è possibile mantenere quest’attitudine critica dal momento che il liberalismo contemporaneo si struttura in un “regime di …
Bay, U. (2011). “Unpacking neo-liberal technologies of government in Australian higher education social work departments”. Journal of social work, 11 (2), p. 222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017310386696 Abstract The Summary: This article analyses how neo-liberal and managerialist policies, over the last two decades in Australia, have positioned university staff as self-managing individuals. Social work academics are positioned as …
Vansieleghem, Nancy (2011). Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: An Account of a Philosophical Experiment with Children in Cambodia. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (2), p. 321-37. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00803.x Abstract The last few decades have seen a steady growth of interest in doing philosophy with children and young people in educational settings. …
Call for papers: Panel on Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance Part of the 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. The conference for 2012 is titled ‘Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation’. The International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis has travelled through Europe. After visiting Birmingham, Amsterdam, Essex, Kassel, Grenoble and Cardiff, …
Legg, Stephen (2011). “Assemblage/apparatus: using Deleuze and Foucault”. Area, 43 (2), p. 128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01010.x Abstract In this commentary I would like to offer some reflections on the Deleuzian concept of ‘assemblage’ (agencement) from the perspective of my grounding in ‘governmentality studies’ and, secondly, on the latter’s central concern with the concept of the security ‘apparatus’ …
This is the sixth page from a forthcoming short graphic novel written by Lauren Kinney and drawn by by Matt MacFarland. I will be posting additional panels on Foucault News as they are produced. Link to page 1 Link to page 2 Link to page 3 Link to page 4 link to page 5 link …
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