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 …
Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, Edited by Carson Welch, Verso, 2024. Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from ‘America’s leading Marxist critic’ Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible …
