Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic & María José Martínez Sánchez, Placeness and the Performative Production of Space, Bloomsbury, 2024 (forthcoming) Description How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance …
Malcolm Voyce, Foucault and Family Relations. Governing from a Distance in Australia, Lexington Books, 2019 Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of …
Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball, (2024). The School Is Irredeemable: Proposing Discomfort for a Different Future for Education. In: Beasy, K., Maguire, M., te Riele, K., Towers, E. (eds) Innovative School Reforms. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64900-4_11 Abstract The chapter argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. Contrary to …
Reiner Keller, Michel Foucault, 2. überarbeitete Auflage Köln, Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2023. Reihe Klassiker der Wissenssoziologie [classics in the sociology of knowledge] Michel Foucault (1926–1984) gilt als einer der wichtigsten, eigenwilligsten und aktuellsten Denker des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Bis zu seinem frühen Tod im Jahre 1984 war er Inhaber eines philosophischen Lehrstuhls für die ‘Geschichte …
Reiner Keller & Marting Blessinger, Positionierungsmacht – Über Formierung und Regierung der Marktakteure, Weinheim: BeltzJuventa 2023 Der Begriff Positionierungsmacht greift die foucaultsche Machtanalytik auf. Er bezeichnet eine gouvernementale Machtform, die sich in den gegenwärtigen Phänomenen des Wertens und Bewertens, in Castings, Rankings, Ratings usw. entfaltet. Diese aktuellen Formen der gesellschaftlichen Konstruktion des Wertvollen bilden neue …
Reiner Keller, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Foundations, Concepts and Tools for a Research Programme, Springer 2024 About this book Sets out the basic principles of a genuinely social-science oriented discourse perspective Presents concrete steps of ‘how to do SKAD research’ Uses exemplary case studies from sociology, political sciences, area studies and education …
Karl Katz Lydén, Critique and the Care of the Self: The Economy of Truth and Government in Michel Foucault’s Late Work, 2024 Doctoral thesis, monograph Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Philosophy. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS). Alternative title Kritik och omsorgen …
Grafton Tanner, Foreverism, Polity, 2023 Description What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and …
Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Duke University Press, 2023. In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman …
Fehr, Burkhard, and Panagiotis Roilos, eds. Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679740 The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual. Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis , a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures …
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