Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimésis, 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue pourtant un rôle déterminant dans l’œuvre de l’auteur. Les réflexions de Foucault sont ici mises …
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals. Interspecies Empire in Myanmar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Book description Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the …
Tony Bennett, Habit’s Pathways. Repetition, Power, Conduct, Duke University Press, 2023 Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses …
Daniel Chao y Marilina Del Valle (compiladores), El gobierno como problema (II), TeseoPress, 2023 Intersecciones entre gubernamentalidad, pensamiento y problematización Open access Sinopsis Resultado de la labor conjunta, que lleva casi una década, en torno a la obra de Michel Foucault y sus derivas, este libro reúne las propuestas de los miembros del Grupo de …
Dispositif: A Cartography Edited by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa Description A groundbreaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought. Dispositif is one of the most prevalent yet elusive terms in contemporary thought. This comprehensive anthology brings together formative, seminal, and contemporary texts and visual applications to illuminate how central dispositifs …
Richard Shusterman, Philosophy and the Art of Writing, Routledge, 2022 Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic …
Baker, E.-R. The Third Reich of Dreams: Resisting fascism through the oneiric unconscious (2023) In Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka (eds) Dreams and Atrocity: The Oneiric in Representations of Trauma, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp. 120-138. DOI: 10.7765/9781526158086.00015 Abstract Between 1933 and 1939, Berlin-based Jewish journalist Charlotte Beradt undertook a clandestine project to collect the …
Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A. Is employee technological “ill-being” missing from corporate responsibility? The Foucauldian ethics of ubiquitous IT uses in organizations (2022) In Kirsten Martin, Katie Shilton, Jeffery Smith (eds.)Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology, Springer, 2022, pp. 33-55. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04202-y Abstract The ethical issues introduced by excessive uses of ubiquitous information technology (IT) at work …
Thomas Heberer, Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China. The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics, Routledge, 2023 This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the Chinese state sees …
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