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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
</a Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La Naissance de l’anti-Hégélianisme. Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel, Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2022 Accès ouvert Contre une lecture simpliste de l’anti-hégélianisme qui caractérise les œuvres de Louis Althusser et de Michel Foucault dans les années 1960, l’ouvrage propose un parcours dans les textes de jeunesse de ces philosophes pour …
Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke, Algorithmic Reason, The New Government of Self and Other, Oxford University Press, forthcoming May 2022 Open access Provides a critical analysis of algorithmic reason and its impact on key political concepts Adopts a global transdisciplinary perspective on algorithmic operations Explores well-known controversies such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, predictive policing …
Postcolonial Governmentalities. Rationalities, Violences and Contestations Edited by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 This edited volume asks how governmentality and postcolonial approaches can be brought together to help us better understand specific sites and practices of contemporary postcolonial governance. The framework/approach was inspired by the recent use of governmentality approaches that …
Nancy Luxon (Ed.) Archives of Infamy. Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, University of Minnesota Press, 2019 What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand …
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