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 …
Sławomir Kozioł, Futures of the Human Subject. Technical Mediation, Foucault and Science Fiction, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Futures of the Human Subject focuses on the representation of the effects of technology use on human subjectivity in several recent near-future science fiction novels. Sharing the idea that human subjects are constructed in the world in which …
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, Princeton University Press, 2023 (forthcoming) A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. …
Jen A. Walklate, Time and the Museum. Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums …
Andrew Skourdoumbis, Scott Webster, The Epistemological Development of Education. Considering Bourdieu, Foucault and Dewey, Routledge, 2023 forthcoming Book Description This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a “science of education” and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical …
Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault, Polity, 2022 On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both …
Paul Du Gay, Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, For Public Service. State, Office and Ethics, Routledge, 2022 Book Description This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty, government, office and reason of state can shed light …
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