Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Commenti alla Filosofia. Quaderni di archeologia filosofica. Volume secondo Edizioni Efesto (2022) Abstract Nel Medioevo il commento è la lettura di un testo che prelude ad una disputa o segue una presa di posizione dottrinale o metafisica. Questo secondo volume dei “Quaderni” rincorre quel senso aggiornandolo alla questione implicita del pensiero: – …

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Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story. What Reality TV Says About Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) 2022 A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality What do we see when we watch reality television? In True …

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Jeanne Morefield, Unsettling the World. Edward Said and Political Theory, Forthcoming 2022 Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, …

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Isobel Roele, Articulating Security: The United Nations and Its Infra-Law , (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316856468 Abstract: Counter-terrorism proliferates, conscripting actors and institutions in a dizzying range of educational, infrastructural, cultural, scientific, legal, and civic endeavours. This monograph draws on Foucault’s work on disciplinary power, especially the figure of infra-law, to analyse the United …

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Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff, The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security, Princeton University Press, 2022. From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and …

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Sara Raimondi, Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets. Contemporary Political Theory (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00549-6 Open access Essay review Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, Columbia University Press, New York, 2020, xii+265pp., ISBN: 978- 0-2311-9714-4 Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020, 143pp., ISBN: 978-1-5179-0877-5 It is a prolific …

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François Châtelet, un philosophe au présent Textes réunis et édités par Franck Jedrzejewski et Nathalie Périn, L’Harmattan, 2022 Philosophe hors du commun, François Châtelet (1925-1985) a profondément marqué le paysage intellectuel français du XXe siècle. Cofondateur, avec Michel Foucault et Gilles Deleuze, du département de philosophie du Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes, aujourd’hui Université Paris …

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Tom Shakespeare, Review: The many worlds of disability, The Lancet, Volume 398, Issue 10316, 4–10 December 2021, Page 2066 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02693-3 Jan Grue is a phenomenon in the disability world: a 40-year-old with a congenital muscular atrophy, who is an author of fiction for adults and children and is also Professor of Qualitative Research at the …

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Ethics And The Problem Of Contingency, Ed. Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi, Fordham University Press (2021) Foreword by Alain Badiou Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe and Slavoj Žižek Description More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and …

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Vicente L. Rafael, The Sovereign Trickster. Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, Duke University Press, 2022 In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, …

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