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 …
Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education. Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research Editors: Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa, Rille Raaper, Bloomsbury Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers …
Linda Steele, Disability, criminal justice and law: Reconsidering court diversion. Routledge, 2020. Book Description Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law’s complicity in the debilitation of disabled people. In a post-deinstitutionalisation era, diverting disabled people from criminal justice systems and into mental health and disability services is …
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later. The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics, Edited by Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, and Samir Haddad. Columbia University Press, 2016 Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, …
Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s Futures. A Critique of Reproductive Reason, Columbia University Press, 2017 In Foucault’s Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction. By analyzing Foucault’s …
Sylvain Garniel, Michel Foucault: un philosophe des attitudes Collection : Ateliers populaires de philosophie, Editions Apogée, (2021) « La vie de tout individu ne pourrait-elle pas être une œuvre d’art ? Pourquoi une lampe ou une maison sont-ils des objets d’art et non pas notre vie ? » C’est sur cette interrogation que se clôt …
Frieder Vogelmann (ed.): “Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen”. Michel Foucaults Vorlesungen 1970–1984. Stuttgart: Metzler (2020). A new edited volume on the complete series of Foucault’s lecture courses. Includes a chapter on every lecture course from 1970 to 1984, as well as a comprehensive introduction. Introduction Von den Theorien und Institutionen des Strafens über die psychiatrische …
7 Questions with David Sepkoski, author of “Catastrophic Thinking” The Chicago blog, NOVEMBER 23, 2020 We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming threat of mass extinction. Such apocalyptic talk feels familiar to us, but the current fascination with extinction is a relatively …
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