Barnes, Naomi, Bedford, Alison (Eds.), Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture, Remixing Theoretical Influencers, Springer, 2021 This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to “do philosophy” rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each …
Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, Columbia University Press, 2020 Interview with author Review in Foucault Studies What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority …
Perry Zurn and I are pleased to announce that Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) is to be published by the University of Minnesota Press at the end of this month. Perry and I are co-editors of the volume and Perry and Erik Beranek are the principal translators. Intolerable UM …
Discourses in Action What Language Enables Us to Do, Edited By Klaus Krippendorff, Nour Halabi, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities today. Discourses in Action presents a wide range of essays that explore fundamental concerns …
Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand. Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present, Columbia University Press, 2021 Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there …
Paul Michael Garrett, Dissenting Social Work. Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic, Routledge, 2021 Book Description This book, from one of international social work’s leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves, Garrett’s book examines a broad range …
Ali Laïdi, Les batailles du commerce mondial. Penser la guerre économique avec et contre Michel Foucault, PUF 2021 Résumé À partir des outils conceptuels légués par Michel Foucault, il s’agit d’établir l’existence de la guerre économique, un concept rejeté jusqu’à présent par le monde académique et médiatique. Mais depuis l’élection de Trump en 2016, – …
Marco Checchi, The Primacy of Resistance. Power, Opposition and Becoming, Bloomsbury, 2021 Review in Foucault Studies Description What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of resistance as primary. The author proposes a …
Camille Robcis, Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy, And Radical Psychiatry In Postwar France, University of Chicago Press, 2021 See also interview with the author on the New Books Network From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But …
Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s ethics. A poststructuralist moral theory for the twenty-first century, Manchester University Press, 2021 DESCRIPTION In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely used throughout the world, Michel Foucault established the basis upon which a new ethics can be constructed. This is the thesis that Mark Olssen advances in Constructing …
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