Mark LeVine, ‘The shaping of a New World Order’, Aljazeera website, 6 February, 2011 Tagline: If the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the creation of a very different regional and world system. Many commentators are comparing Egypt to Iran of 32 years ago, mostly to warn of the risks of the country descending …
Katharine Daneski and Paul Higgs ‘How far can Foucault take us? An analysis of the changing discourses and limitations of the medical treatment of apoplexy and stroke’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, December 15, 2010 Full text of article Abstract This article examines the conditions under which …
Claire Blencowe ‘Foucault’s and Arendt’s ‘insider view’ of biopolitics: a critique of Agamben’, History of the Human Sciences, December 2010 vol. 23 no. 5 113-130 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110375762 Abstract This article revisits Arendt’s and Foucault’s converging accounts of modern (bio)politics and the entry of biological life into politics. Agamben’s influential account of these ideas is rejected as …
James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January, 2011 James Miller is the author of one of the biographies of Foucault: The Passion of Michel Foucault From Booklist Miller combines short biographies and compact synopses of 12 philosophers’ ideas of wisdom. In a format suiting those intrigued by …
Judith Revel, Foucault, une pensée du discontinu, Paris, Fayard, 2010. Description La pensée de Michel Foucault désoriente : considérée parfois comme celle d’un philosophe, parfois encore comme celle d’un historien ou d’un critique de la culture, elle ne cesse de déplacer ses choix méthodologiques, ses champs d’enquête et son outillage conceptuel ; elle surprend par …
Lynne Huffer and Elizabeth Wilson ‘Mad for Foucault: A Conversation’, Theory, Culture & Society January 4, 2011 vol. 27 no. 7-8 324-338. Abstract This two-part article summarizes the major arguments of Lynne Huffer’s 2010 book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. The second part of the piece is a dialogue between Huffer …
Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …
Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Frédéric Gros et Judith Revel, Cahier Foucault, Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011 « Escrimeur plus que sabreur, Foucault est resté un dissident politique, toujours à la riposte plus qu’à la parade, sans jamais laisser s’automatiser ses esquives ou ses bottes ni prêter à imitation facile. » Toute la variété de l’oeuvre de …
From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …
MATERIALI FOUCAULTIANI – CALL FOR PAPERS italiano Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il secondo call for papers per la rivista online « mf / materiali foucaultiani » : Razze e razzismi: approcci foucaultiani La rivista online mf/materiali foucaultiani intende dedicare il suo secondo numero all’articolazione di razza e razzismo che emerge dalle opere di Michel …
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