Lucia Ozorio : La praxis du commun dans la production de la connaissance. Afrique, Amérique du Sud et Europe, L’Harmattan – Avril 2021 Cet ouvrage interpelle qui entend repenser et éclairer le commun dans le champ des sciences humaines. Il s’inscrit dans la lignée d’A. Negri, M. Hardt et, avant eux, de Deleuze, Guattari et …
Catelli, Laura; Rodríguez, Manuela; Lepe-Carrión, Patricio et al (2021). Condición poscolonial y racialización. Una propuesta colectiva, transdisciplinaria y situada. Editorial Quellcasqa. Open access Introduction [extract] In el ámbito latinoamericano y caribeño, la racialización ha sido una marca constante en los proce-sos imaginarios, sociales, políticos y económicos asociados a distintos ciclos históricos: desde las invasiones europeas …
The Bedroom by Michelle Perrot review – an intimate history by Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, Tue 11 Dec 2018 Details for book The bedroom, says French superstar historian Michelle Perrot, is the place where everything important has already happened. From the days when early man first rolled a boulder in front of his cave and …
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life, Stanford University Press, 2015 In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the …
Jeffrey T. Nealon, I’m Not Like Everybody Else. Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music, University of Nebraska Press, 2018 About the Book Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted …
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Fates of the Performative. From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism, University of Minnesota Press, 2021 From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about …
Marta Faustino & Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault. Ethical and Political Questions, Bloomsbury, 2020 Description Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège …
Brendon Murphy, Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience, Springer, 2021 This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to regulate one of …
Alessandro Baccarin, Archeologia dell’erotismo. Ascesa ed oblio dell’ars erotica greco-romana. Edizioni Efesto (2020) Descrizione Nel grande naufragio della letteratura greco-romana uno spazio particolare occupa la manualistica erotica. Si trattava di un genere letterario importante, che solo una lettura distorsiva e anacronistica può ascrivere alla pornografia. L’autorialità che rese celebre questo genere era composta per lo …
Mitchell Dean & Daniel Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD Foucault and the End of Revolution, Verso, forthcoming May 2021. ISBN: 9781839761393 In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the southern Californian desert. He described it as the most important event of his life, which would lead him to completely rework his History of …
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