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 …
Michel Foucault’s speech on notion of parresia published for Persian readers, Tehran Times, December 28, 2021 – Cheshmeh is the publisher of the book rendered into Persian by Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Seyyedi. The book launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of …
Robert Mitchell, Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism, Fordham University Press, 2021 Open access Review in Foucault Studies Abstract Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of …
Mona Lilja, Constructive Resistance. Repetitions, Emotions, and Time, Rowman & Littlefield. See review in Foucault Studies This book examines constructive resistance practices that range from street protests to the use of photographic images, and displays their role in local and global political processes. By building on a rich selection of interview material and other empirical …
Udi Greenberg, Review: The Lost Worlds of Edward Said, The New Republic, April 13, 2021 Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception. As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the …
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