Federico Soldani, “Mr. President, are you crazy?”: The New York Times calls for an “intervention” on the “mad king” Trump, echoing the scene of George III — last king of America — at the origins of psychiatry. When politics is constructed for the public as a psychiatric spectacle. Blog post. PsyPolitics. A blog about the …
Chris Gavaler, Michel Foucault Is Not a Comics Scholar, The Patron Saint of Superheroes blog, August 21, 2023 […] Foucault is not a comics scholar. He did, however, provide one of the earliest analyses of the comics gutter: “On the page of an illustrated book, we seldom pay attention to the small space running above …
Clare O’Farrell, Foucault, Radio Interview 2: Madness Silenced, Refracted Input blog, 29 July 2025 Citation from Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie a l’âge classique. Entretien avec Michel Foucault. Diffusion le 11 juillet 1961 sur France III National. In Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion / VRIN / INA, 2024, pp. 17-19. ‘[…] no other …
M G Hamner, The Order of Things: The difference of the Analysis of Wealth, affecognitive ~ religion, film, affect, academia blog, 10 July 2025 In chapter six of The Order of Things/Les mots et les choses, Michel Foucault marks, twice, a difference between the analysis of wealth and both general grammar and natural history (the …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Per una storia della verità, Archeologia del presente blog, 2 Aprile 2025 Michel Foucault nella prima lezione dell’ultimo corso al Collège de France, Il coraggio della verità, riprende la nozione di parresia e definisce diversi modi del dir vero. le strutture caratteristiche dei differenti discorsi che vengono accetatati come veri si riferiscono …
Clare O’Farrell, Foucault, Radio Interview 1: The phenomenon of madness, Refracted Input blog, 18 February 2025 Citation from Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie a l’âge classique. Entretien de Michel Foucault avec Nicole Brice. Diffusion le 31 mai 1961 sur France III National. In Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion / VRIN / INA, 2024, …
Eric Schliesser, Bentham and Foucault on Biopolitics and Political Epistemology, digressionsimpressions’s Substack, Feb 13, 2024 Bonus Post: Foucault, the Benthamite in 1978-1979 […] Today’s post is a long read. The pay-off is that I show that the state’s essential role is the production and diffusion — as a machinery of record — of knowledge for …
Gordon Hull, LLM, Inc. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog, 27 February 2024 In previous posts (one, two, three), I’ve been exploring the issue of what I’m calling the implicit normativity in language models, especially those that have been trained with RLHF (reinforcement learning with human feedback). In the most recent one, I argued …
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