Michel Foucault, Dossier Iran, Traduzione di Sajjad Lohi, Neri Pozza, 2023 A quasi quarantantacinque anni dalla nascita della Repubblica Islamica, l’Iran è attraversato da rivolte e scioperi che sfidano il potere delle autorità religiose. La rivoluzione iraniana sembra irrimediabilmente giunta alla sua fine. Di quell’evento, sorto tra il 1978 e il 1979, conserviamo una testimonianza …
Sujin Lee, Wombs of Empire. Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, Forthcoming, October 2023 Japan’s contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country’s efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is …
Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth. Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Chicago University Press, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. Foucault did not question …
Asad L. Asad, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, Princeton University Press, 2023. Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex …
Jeffrey Whyte, The Birth of Psychological War. Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War. Oxford University Press, 2023 Open access Description The Birth of Psychological War explores the history, politics, and geography of United States psychological warfare in the 20th century against the backdrop of the contemporary ‘post-truth era’. From its …
Sam Binkley, Against White Interiority. A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial …
La philosophie de Ian Hacking, avec Matteo Vagelli, July 18 2023
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …
Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature, de Gruyter, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 About this book This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken …
Eugene B. Young, Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power. Deleuze via Blanchot, Bloomsbury, 2022 Description Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining …
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