Byung-Chul Han, Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy, Translated by Daniel Steuer, Polity Press, 2022 The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with …
Andrew Gibson (2021) Producing Historicity: Foucault, Joyce and European Art Cinema, 1955–1980, Textual Practice, 35:10, 1565-1585, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1965290 ABSTRACT In recent years, it has become increasingly clear how damaging and virulent the obsessively ‘presentist’ orientation is that drives neoliberal and managerial ‘culture’. Its proponents abjure discourses of or on historicity, lest they encounter critical perspectives …
Nustad, K. G., & Swanson, H. (2022). Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management? Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 924–946. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211015044 Abstract While explicitly Foucauldian analyses have declined in recent years in the social sciences, Foucault’s ideas continue to strongly influence scholars’ approaches to …
Impressões de Foucault: Entrevista com Roberto Machado Sociologia & Antropologia. 7 (1) • Jan-Abr 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752017v711 Open access Resumo Nesta entrevista sobre Michel Foucault, Roberto Machado aborda sua atualidade e seu impacto nas ciências humanas; os tipos de estudo que caracterizam diferentes momentos de sua trajetória intelectual; as singularidades de seu pensamento – o …
Making music out of human speech GARETH BRANWYN. Boing Boing, 2:20 PM SUN SEP 11, 2022 I’ve written about the work of artist and composer, Noah Wall, on Boing Boing before (here and here). In his latest project, Speech Patterns, Noah derives music from the rhythm, tone, and timbre of the human voice using source material including the voices of …
Lodovica Braida, Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing. The Absent Author, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022 This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in …
Foucault/Benjamin: storia, violenza, soggettivazione a cura di Valentina Moro materiali foucaultiani, volume IX, numero 17-18 (gennaio-dicembre 2020) (Backdated) Open access SOMMARIO Foucault/Benjamin: storia, violenza, soggettivazione a cura di Valentina Moro Introduzione : Foucault/Benjamin. Genealogie et costellazioni concettuali (pp. 5-11) Valentina Moro Politicità e impoliticità del comune. Pensiero della comunità e filosofia della storia in Benjamin …
Russell-Mayhew, S., Estefan, A., Moules, N.J., Lefebvre, D., Morhun, J.M., Saunders, J.F., Wong, K., Myre, M. The optics of weight: expert perspectives from the panopticon and synopticon (2022) Psychology and Health DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2022.2117810 Abstract Objective: That we all weigh something is a fact of life, yet the material reality of weight is refracted through multiple …
Alekseeva-Karnevali, O.A. India’s Strategic Culture: In Search of a Systemic Element (2022) Russia in Global Affairs, 20 (3), pp. 134-156. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-134-156 Abstract India is emerging as a global power, but its strategic culture remains largely understudied. Expert literature calls into question the very existence of India’s own “systemic” strategic thinking. The article probes into …
NIETZSCHE, LA POLITIQUE, L’HISTOIRE Catégorie : conférence/cours/séminaire (spécialisé) Date : 29/11/2022 09:30 – 30/11/2022 17:00 Lieu : UNamur – UCLouvain Organisateur(s) : FNRS, Esphin & Arcadie (UNamur) et ISP (UCLouvain) Contact : Nicolas Monseu, Jean Leclercq, Pieter De Corte, Vivien Giet – +32 (0)81 72 40 94 – vivien.giet@unamur.be Programme Jour 1 | 29 novembre 2022- Université de Namur – Salle …
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