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 …
Mark D. Jordan, In Search of Foucault’s Last Words, Boston Review, 19 January 2022 Review: Confessions of the Flesh (The History of Sexuality 4) Michel Foucault, edited by Frederic Gros and translated by Robert Hurley Vintage, $17 (paper) When Foucault died from complications of AIDS, he left the series entitled History of Sexuality at least …
Lisa Duggan, Ayn Rand and the Cruel Heart of Neoliberalism, Dissent Magazine, May 20, 2019 Excerpted from Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, published by the University of California Press. © 2019 by the Regents of the University of California.) […] Neoliberal influence has been culturally deep as well as geographically …
Tracey Potts, Clutter and place (2020) The Routledge Handbook of Place, Edited By Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari, pp. 486-495. DOI: 10.4324/9780429453267-43 Abstract This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in …
Raúl García, The Event of Psychopoetics. Imagination and the Rupture of Psychology, Routledge, 2021 The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and …
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