Annie Jacobsen, First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance, Penguin Random House, 2021 Editor: The first chapter titled ‘The Panopticon’ includes a reflection on Foucault’s discussion of the plague in the Abnormal lectures and in Discipline and Punish. ABOUT FIRST PLATOON A powerful story of war in our time, …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, La natura umana come dispositivo, Edizioni Efesto, Ristampa – 2021. Questo è il testo che inaugura la nostra nuova collana “archeologia filosofica”. E’ una mappa delle più importanti problematiche filosofiche che l’idea di natura umana delimita. Questa idea infatti persiste al fondo delle trasformazioni storiche dell’occidente. Se si percorre questo territorio che …
Remigiusz Ryziński. Foucault in Warsaw, Open Letter Books (Forthcoming, June 2021) The previously untold story of the plot to kick Michel Foucault out of Poland in the 1950s In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis—a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was …
Kahan, Benjamin. The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of …
Javaid, Aliraza. Masculinities, sexualities and love. Routledge, 2018. Book Description It can be said that societies today know little of how gender, sexuality and love interconnect in dissimilar contexts, and how they are collectively shaped by social structures. Underpinned by the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love examines a range of empirical …
Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh. The history of sexuality, Volume 4, Edited by Frederic Gros, Translated by Robert Hurley. Pantheon 2021. ABOUT CONFESSIONS OF THE FLESH The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the …
Emanuele Iula, Pulsioni e legami. Approcci filosofici alla sessualità, Orthotes Editrice, 2021 Fornire una comprensione adeguata della sessualità umana significa accettare la sfida della complessità, che si esprime non solo facendo ricorso a vari ambiti disciplinari, ma anche accogliendone il differenziarsi delle pratiche. Al giorno d’oggi non esiste autore, né scuola di pensiero, né indirizzo …
Sylvain Lafleur (ed), Foucault à Montréal réflexions pour une criminologie critique Les éditions de la rue Dorion (2021) En 1976, Michel Foucault participe à une conférence organisée par l’Office des droits des détenus de concert avec l’École de criminologie de l’Université de Montréal. Il y présente ses réflexions sur l’usage des peines de substitution à …
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Tom Roach, Screen Love. Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era, SUNY Press. Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality. In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate “normal life” before the pandemic. In Screen Love, Tom Roach urges us …
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