Johan Wennström, The soul of Swedes, On the contested state of Swedish cultural identity, The Critic, 8 February, 2023 n the late 1950s, French philosopher Michel Foucault spent three years as a researcher in the Swedish university town of Uppsala. The encounter between Foucault and Sweden seems to have been an unhappy one, perhaps inspiring …
Gilberto Conde, Fluid Modernity. The Politics of Water in the Middle East, Routledge, 2023 Book Description Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, …
Daniel Defert, Une vie politique. Entretiens avec Philippe Artières et Éric Favereau. Seuil, 2014 En 1984, le sida entre tragiquement dans la vie de Daniel Defert avec la mort de Michel Foucault. En hommage à celui qui fut son compagnon de vie pendant près de vingt-cinq ans, le sociologue crée Aides, la première association française …
Didier Fassin : « Une surveillance s’exerce sur la recherche » (2023), L’Humanité, 3 Février 2023, Latifa Madani Dans son dernier livre, La Recherche à l’épreuve du politique, l’anthropologue et sociologue alerte sur les dangers auxquels s’exposent les chercheurs et plaide pour la liberté du champ des savoirs. La recherche est une épreuve à risques. …
Michelle Perrot, Punir et comprendre. Entretiens avec Frédéric Chauvaud, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023. Les éditions PUR proposent d’en découvrir les premières pages Ce livre d’entretiens revient sur un itinéraire et des chantiers ouverts dès les années 1970. Il restitue les rencontres, les échanges et les travaux menés avec Michel Foucault ou Robert Badinter. Cette …
Rehberg, Andrea and Woodward, Ashley. Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688436 About this book The question of Nietzsche’s use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference, in relation to historical and scholarly concerns, but with …
Perry Meisel, Criticism After Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, Routledge, 2022 Book Description The argument of this book is a simple one: that criticism after theory is a single movement of thought defined by synthesis and continuity rather than by conflict and change. The most influential figures in criticism since Saussure—Bakhtin, Derrida, and Foucault—are …
Mark Cole, Radical Organisation Development, Routledge, 2020 Book Description Contemporary organisation development (OD) in practice draws on sophisticated theory and tools to advance organisational change, using a range of concepts and techniques including positive psychology, appreciation, and active engagement with the workforce. OD is considered to be humanistic and, as a result, progressive. Mark Cole’s …
Rony K. Pratama, Genealogi Hoaks Indonesia, EA Books, 2021 English abstract and title below Bagaimana penciptaan dan perubahan makna hoaks dari momen-momen penting yang menandainya? Siapa saja aktor penting yang membentuk hoaks dalam sepuluh tahun terakhir? Bagaimana pesan berantai berisi ancaman santet membuat geger masyarakat? Masih ingat kicauan @TrioMacan2000? Apa agenda ekonomi-politik di balik ramainya …
Mark Shepard, There Are No Facts. Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life, MIT Press, 2022 The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world—and shape us within that world. With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the …
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