Foucault’s theatres Edited by Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman, Manchester University Press, 2020 DESCRIPTION The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be …
Philippe Artières, Le dossier sauvage, Verticales, Octobre 2019 « Enquêter sur des archives qui auraient été rassemblées par Michel Foucault. Déplier chacune de ses pièces pour suivre la trace d’individus qui se sont retirés du monde au XIXe et au XXe siècle. Redécouvrir, en marge du dossier, que dans une forêt des Vosges, il est …
Carlson, David Lee, Rodriguez, Nelson M. (Eds.) Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education. Friendship as Ascesis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 This book examines, within the context and concerns of education, Foucault’s reflections on friendship in his 1981 interview “Friendship as a Way of Life.” In the interview, Foucault advances the notion of a homosexual …
Aldo Avellaneda y Guillermo Vega, (eds.) Conductas que importan. Variantes de análisis de los Estudios en Gubernamentalidad. EUDENE 2018. Presentation: Wednesday, 27, 18:30. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. Resumen Los así llamados Governmentality Studies (Estudios en Gubernamentalidad) vieron la luz en el año 1991, si convenimos en otorgar crédito …
Smaranda Spanu, Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation. The Heterotopic Tool as a Means of Heritage Assessment. Springer, 2020 This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The fundamental understandings of heritage, its evolution and practices all reveal intrinsic heterotopic features …
Francisco Klauser, (2017) Surveillance and space, London: SAGE Publications Ltd The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, …
Lucy Fischer, Cinemagritte. René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice, Wayne State University Press, 2019. Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) and the cinema—a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and …
Dominique Roux, Yohan Gicquel, (dir.) Michel Foucault et la consommation. Gouverner et séduire, Versus 2018 Si Michel Foucault est l’un des plus grands philosophes du XXe siècle, et aussi le plus cité au monde, en quoi sa pensée peut-elle éclairer notre compréhension de la consommation à laquelle il n’a apporté aucun éclairage direct ? Alors …
Dianna Taylor, Sexual Violence and Humiliation. A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective, Routledge, 2019 Review in Foucault Studies Description This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault’s critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist conceptualization and countering of sexual …
L’épistémologie historique. Histoire et méthodes Sous la direction de Jean-François Braunstein, Iván Moya Diez, Matteo Vagelli, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019 Qu’est-ce que l’« épistémologie historique » ? À cette question ce volume répond en esquissant le portrait d’un Janus bifrons, dont l’une des faces est tournée vers le « style français » traditionnel en …
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