Joseph Pugliese, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human. Forensic Ecologies of Violence, Duke University Press, 2020 In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining …
Niki Kasumi Clements, Sites of the Ascetic Self. John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation, University of Notre Dame Press, 2020 Description Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience …
Un ouvrage dédié au philosophe Michel Foucault, La Nouvelle République, 14/05/2021 See also this site Publisher’s site Book brochure L’association Le jardin de Michel Foucault à Vendeuvre-du-Poitou vient de publier en avril 2021 un livre intitulé Michel Foucault, Côté jardin, Paroles. Cet ouvrage est un recueil de témoignages de personnes qui l’ont connu à Vendeuvre …
Michel Foucault. Sexuality. The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron. General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Graham Burchell. Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Columbia University Press 2021 Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published in 1976—exerts a vast influence across …
Foucault, les Pères, le sexe. Autour des Aveux de la chair Edited by Philippe Büttgen, Philippe Chevallier, Agustín Colombo, Arianna Sforzini, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021 Description in English below Flyer in English Les aveux de La chair, dernier volume de l’Histoire de la sexualité, fruit de près de huit ans de travail sur le …
Jeremy Weissman, The Crowdsourced Panopticon. Conformity and Control on Social Media, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Review at LSE Review of Books Behind the omnipresent screens of our laptops and smartphones, a digitally networked public has quickly grown larger than the population of any nation on Earth. On the flipside, in front of the ubiquitous recording …
The Early Foucault | 10-Minute Talks | The British Academy In this talk Stuart Elden discusses his new book, ‘The Early Foucault’ and the research he did on the first period of Michel Foucault’s career. In particular, he highlights what Foucault did before the History of Madness in 1961 and how he came to write …
Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault, Polity, 2021. It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and Hamburg. Although he published little in this …
Vanessa Codaccioni, La société de vigilance. Auto-surveillance, délation et haines sécuritaires, Editions textuel, 2021 Injonctions sécuritaires et obéissance citoyenne Partout dans le monde, les populations sont incitées à se mobiliser pour assurer leur propre sécurité et celle de leur pays. Partout, les appels à la vigilance et à la responsabilité individuelle se multiplient, tandis que …
Foucault face à la norme Sous la direction de : Jacqueline Guittard, Emeric Nicolas, Cyril Sintez Mare & Martin, 2020 En 1975, dans Surveiller et punir, Michel Foucault décrivait « […] une nouvelle forme de “loi” : un mixte de légalité et de nature, de prescription et de constitution, la norme. » Cette affirmation résultait …
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