Claussen, Emma. Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word ‘politique’, in both sixteenth-century and contemporary French, refers to the theory and practice of …
Emma Claussen (2022) ‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne, Early Modern French Studies, 44:1, 70-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076314 Abstract This article explores Étienne La Boétie’s discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne’s accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on …
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Prewitt, Ryan, and Max Accardi. “Cultural Necromancy: Digital Resurrection and Hegemonic Incorporation.” SubStance 52, no. 2 (2023): 74-101. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2023.a907150. Abstract: This essay follows the recent discourse on two phenomena: the tendency of hegemony to incorporate subversive cultures, and the digital reanimation of prominent dead people. At the intersection of these phenomena lies what we call …
Armstrong, Lauren (2023) “‘Half of it’s Out the Window’: Exploring Tensions, Hierarchies and Positionalities Amidst the Changing Knowledge Base of Early Childhood Teacher Education Discourses,” Australian Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 48 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14221/1835-517X.5960 Abstract Early childhood education is foregrounded in change. In Australia, this has encompassed the introduction, …
Michel Foucault en América Latina: 40 años de ontologías del presente Llamado a publicación Vol. 7 No. 131 (2024) (abierto) Editores invitados: Nelson F. Roberto-Alba, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia) Luis F. Blengino, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina) Michel Foucault se ha constituido en uno de los filósofos más influyentes del …
Michel Foucault, Dossier Iran, Traduzione di Sajjad Lohi, Neri Pozza, 2023 A quasi quarantantacinque anni dalla nascita della Repubblica Islamica, l’Iran è attraversato da rivolte e scioperi che sfidano il potere delle autorità religiose. La rivoluzione iraniana sembra irrimediabilmente giunta alla sua fine. Di quell’evento, sorto tra il 1978 e il 1979, conserviamo una testimonianza …
Foucault Studies, Number 34, August 2023 Open access Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Articles Sustaining Significance of Confessional Form: Taking Foucault to Attitudinal Research Krystof Dolezal Ungovernable Counter-Conduct: Ivan Illich’s Critique of Governmentality Tim Christiaens Book Reviews Mark Coeckelbergh, Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Columbia University Press, …
Ansgar Allen, Barthes, anti-intellectualism, and the academy, Ephemera. Theory & Politics in Organization, 2023 Open access Abstract In this paper the UK university system is conceptualised as an institutional space that has been transformed to become a resolute, functional haven of anti-intellectualism. This argument is qualified by adopting an understanding of intellectual work that is …
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