Giuseppe Dambrosio, Potere, Soggettività, Post-Modernità, Sensibili alle foglie, 2021 Nella prima parte di questo libro vengono ripresi e attualizzati gli studi di Michel Foucault sul potere disciplinare, a cui è connesso il concetto di dispositivo, per indagare le forme assunte da assoggettamento e soggettivazione nella post-modernità. È evidenziata, sul piano sia filosofico sia pedagogico che …
Interview/podcast Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth, Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Hosted by Richard Grijalva, New Books Network, Nov 1, 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 …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Review: Hannah Lyn Venable: Madness in Experience and History, Phenomenological Reviews, Tuesday October 31st 2023 Open access It would be fitting, perhaps to start speaking of Madness in Experience and History by refusing to begin at the beginning and stepping right into the centre oscillating towards the periphery through a long and patient …
Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth. Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life, Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 2023 paperback Critically re-examines canonical theories of biopolitics in the post-truth context Argues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical governance Undertakes a genealogical investigation of the origins of the contemporary post-truth regime in early post-communist politics …
Hannah Lyn Venable, Madness in Experience and History. Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Foucault’s Archaeology, Routledge, 2022 Description Madness in Experience and History brings together experience and history to show their impact on madness or mental illness. Drawing on the writings of two twentieth-century French philosophers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, the author pairs a phenomenological approach …
Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works Volume one of this first English translation of Michel Serres’s foundational series establishes a new way …
Ottavio Marzocca, Il virus della biopolitica: forme e mutazioni, Edizioni Efesto (2023) La pandemia ha confermato che la biopolitica è una forma essenziale della politica dominante. Essa tuttavia non ne è il “paradigma”, ma è parte di un insieme di tecniche di governo, in cui il primato della razionalità economica s’intreccia con la pervasività delle …
Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil. Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming February 2024 Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup …
A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott’s ‘Telling Silence’ (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis), Acid Horizon podcast, 9 October 2023. Charles E. Scott, Telling Silence. Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences, SUNY Press, November 2023. Description In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in …
Michel Foucault, La legge del pudore, a cura di Caro Gervasi e Lorenzo Petrachi, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli-Salerno 2023, 160 pp., 16 euro (collana: Teoria sociale) Questa raccolta presenta per la prima volta la conversazione radiofonica tra Michel Foucault, Jean Danet e Guy Hocquenghem nota con il titolo La loi de la pudeur inquadrandola nell’insieme di …
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