New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022) The lecture given by Foucault on alternatives to prison in 1976 at the University of Montreal was published and commented on in Foucault in Montreal (2021) published by Éditions de la rue Dorion. A shortened version of this book was published, in France, by Éditions Divergences. This …
Byung-Chul Han, Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, Translated by Daniel Steuer, Polity (2022) We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things …
Jane Tynan, Chapter 11. Michel Foucault. Fashioning the Body Politic. In Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik (eds), Thinking through Fashion A Guide to Key Theorists, I.B. Tauris, 2016, pp. 184-199 (Bloomsbury Collections) Chapter DOI10.5040/9780755694785.ch-011 Introduction The French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984) has profoundly impacted disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. For Foucault, …
Byung-Chul Han, Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy, Translated by Daniel Steuer, Polity Press, 2022 The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with …
Lodovica Braida, Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing. The Absent Author, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022 This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in …
Christensen, G. Ethical Reflections On Ethnographic Exposure Of Exclusion in PBL-Group Learning (2021) in Fox, A., Busher, H., & Capewell, C. (Eds.). (2021). Thinking Critically and Ethically About Research for Education: Engaging with Voice and Empowerment in International Contexts (1st ed.). Routledge., pp. 107-119. DOI: 10.4324/9781003094722-9 Abstract This chapter will address ethnographic exposure of exclusion …
Garðar Árnason, Foucault and the Human Subject of Science, Springer, 2018 Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics Analyses Foucault’s work on scientific discourses and their interplay with individuals and society Outlines a Foucauldian approach to science criticism and ethical issues regarding research with human subjects Discusses the ethical controversy over plans to construct …
Hampton, Alexander J. B., and Douglas Hedley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment, Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Description Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and …
Heterotopic World Fiction. Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps In the series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, Academic Studies Press, 2022. De Gruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699966 Interview with the authors on the New Books Network, 6 January 2023 About this book This book demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, …
Polan, Dana, Review, H-France Review, Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 149, pp.1-4. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. Clare O’Farrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018 First, let’s get the issue of the title out of the way: Michel Foucault, it seems, was in his adult years …
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