‘[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that …
Zaini, A. Ambivalent reading: Ambivalence as a reading practice in critical literacy (2022) Language Teaching Research DOI: 10.1177/13621688221126724 Abstract While previous research has suggested there are dominantly two reading practices in critical literacy, namely, reading with and against texts, this study introduces the approach of ambivalence as a third way of reading texts critically. For …
Llewellyn, A. “A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW (2022) Journal of Homosexuality, 69 (13), pp. 2348-2369. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 Abstract In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms …
Andrä, C. Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance (2022) Review of International Studies, 48 (4), pp. 705-724. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000274 Abstract This article redirects extant critiques of the modern problem of war at this problem’s underlying logic of deviance. According to this logic, war constitutes a kind of international …
Wright, L. Erin’s sons and decent daughters: The biopolitics of rural masculinities in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn (1948) In Aida Rosende-Pérez, Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez (eds.) The Cultural Politics of In/Difference: Irish Texts and Contexts, Peter Lang (2022) pp. 28-47. Abstract In the years leading up to the foundation of the Irish Republic and the Irish Constitution …
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, Princeton University Press, 2023 (forthcoming) A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. …
Lorenzini, D. (2021). Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online January 14, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420980510 Abstract This paper addresses the multiple readings that Foucault offers of Descartes’ Meditations during the whole span of his intellectual career. It thus rejects the (almost) exclusive focus of the …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In 1975, Foucault was interviewed by Jacques Chancel on the radio. It is reprinted in Dits et écrits as text 161, “Radioscopie de Michel Foucault”. The French text is here and the recording here. Comparing the transcription and the recording shows that it has been cleaned up quite a bit…
Jen A. Walklate, Time and the Museum. Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums …
Andrew Skourdoumbis, Scott Webster, The Epistemological Development of Education. Considering Bourdieu, Foucault and Dewey, Routledge, 2023 forthcoming Book Description This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a “science of education” and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical …
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