Call for papers for a special issue “Mise-en-Scene: Crime” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 38 No. 1 (March 2012) Submissions due August 15, 2011 ******** In the beginning was murder. Then came drama: the hair-tearing (or eye-gouging) discovery of one’s own overweening hubris, the inconsolable grieving over the loss of the most basic sense …
David Galston, Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology (Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2011). Review Description The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault’s Archaeology …
First two-day workshop of the CIBB Project (‘Contemporary Issues in Bioethics and Biopolitics’) ‘The Normal and the Pathological’ 27th and 28th September 2011 MS.05 (second floor) Zeeman Building, The University of Warwick. Please note that all the papers will be delivered in English. All welcome. Free registration at normalpathological@gmail.com Confirmed speakers: Jean-Claude Dumoncel, Robert Bernasconi, …
Michel Foucault The Courage of Truth, Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 The course given by Michel Foucault from February to March 1984, under the title The Courage of Truth, was his last at the Collège de France. His death shortly after, on June 25th, tempts us to detect …
Géraldine Brausch, «Un détour par les stratèges de Jullien pour relire les analyses stratégiques de Foucault», Dissensus, N° 4 (avril 2011) Table des matières I. Nécessité d’une hétérotopie II. Contre le modèle du droit, le modèle stratégique III. La logique disciplinaire ou l’art de faire table rase du réel pour mieux le (re)créer. Retour sur …
Michael Power, Foucault and Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 37 July 07, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150133 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was a gifted but elusive thinker with a wide and continuing impact across many academic fields. This article positions his work as a historical sociology of knowledge and evaluates its contribution. After reviewing Foucault’s central preoccupations as …
Radu, Carmen. 2011. “Governmentality and the Deportation of Eastern European Roma in Italy and France.” Student Pulse Academic Journal 3.04. Read online Abstract This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance-inducing international organization, why have member states France and Italy escaped punishment for …
Strausz, Erzsébet, ‘Foucault’s Critique: A Topology of Thought’, Law and Critique, March 2011, 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-011-9082-5 Abstract In order to elucidate some of the ways in which critique and subjectivity become inextricably linked in Foucault’s oeuvre, the paper proceeds first by briefly discussing the concept of critique as limit-attitude as it appears in some of Foucault’s …
Saul Newman, ‘Postanarchism and Power’, Journal of Power, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 2010, 259–274 https://doi.org/10.1080/17540291.2010.493704 Abstract This article develops a postanarchist conception of power by using Foucault to reveal some of the tensions and limitations within classical anarchist theory. As a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis shows, the operation of power is more complex and constitutive …
Anders Fogh Jensen and Rasmus Svarre Hansen, Cartographier le pouvoir: Foucault et Bourdieu Cartographier le pouvoir est un livre illustré qui tente de reformuler les théories de Foucault et de Bourdieu dans une langue simple et au moyen de dessins expressifs. The Cartography of Power is a picture book which recounts Foucault and Bourdieu’s theories …
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