Iván Torres Apablaza, Michel Foucault, una lectura posthumanista. Ética, política, porvenir, Alma Negra, 2024 Extracto (PDF) «El lente a través de la cual este trabajo reconstruye la vertiginosa, en ocasiones aparentemente contradictoria y, en todo caso, intrincada trayectoria foucaultiana –permítaseme: uno de los grandes filósofos del siglo XX– es la continuidad del problema, estrictamente filosófico …
Nildo Avelino, Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: Anarquismo e Governamentalidade, Appris Editora, 2024 O livro Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: anarquismo e governamentalidade investiga as reflexões do anarquista francês Pierre-Joseph Proudhon e do anarquista italiano Errico Malatesta sobre o exercício do poder governamental, utilizando uma abordagem dos estudos da governamentalidade, noção elaborada por Michel Foucault para designar o campo …
Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …
Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence. Freedom, Nature and Agency, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics. In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of …
Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies. Another Way of Cutting Reality, Oxford University Press, 2024 The aims of this book: 1. To shed new light on a neglected theme in one of the most influential contemporary thinkers by exploring Foucault’s thinking on technology. Foucault’s Technologies argues that Foucault’s thinking, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, is fundamentally …
Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty. Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy, Columbia University Press, 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the …
Landenne, Quentin, et Emmanuel Salanskis, éd. Les métamorphoses de la « généalogie » après Nietzsche. Bruxelles: Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pusl.28428. Open access Les contributions réunies dans ce volume visent à explorer le champ des postérités généalogiques de Nietzsche. Dans cette perspective, il convient d’abord de faire une nette distinction entre la dimension programmatique …
Vachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming Press. 978-9925-8118-8-5. Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence, written by Wittgenstein and Foucault scholar Giorgio Vachnadze, draws a circle around many topics that have been important to Becoming’s editorial line, from epistemology to cybernetics, biopolitics, philosophy of music and semiology. The …
Aleksandra Wójtowicz, The Staszic Palace as Affective Heterotopia : New Category of Spatial Description, Peter Lang, 2024 Summary The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character. The book …
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