Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics. Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Translated by Erik Butler, Verso 2017 See also Review in The Guardian Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast …
Mark G. E. Kelly, For Foucault. Against Normative Political Theory, SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy. This book comprises a series of staged confrontations between the thought of Michel Foucault and a cast of other figures …
Jacopo Martire, A Foucauldian Interpretation of Modern Law. From Sovereignty to Normalisation and Beyond, Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Addresses a surprisingly overlooked Foucauldian conundrum: what is the logical relationship between modern law and power? Jacopo Martire investigates the development of modern law in conjunction with what Foucault termed biopolitical forms of power. He gives you …
The Birth of Austerity. German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism Edited by Thomas Biebricher and Frieder Vogelmann, Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 Description Ordoliberalism and the ‘Freiburg School’ have gained traction in contemporary political economy in response to two factors: a rising interest in governmentality studies and the banking, financial and sovereign debt crisis …
FOUCAULT ON PAINTING By Catherine M. Soussloff University of Minnesota Press | 176 pages | November 2017 ISBN 978-1-5179-0242-1| paper | $25.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0241-4 | cloth | $100.00 Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically addresses present concerns about the mediated nature of the image in the digital …
La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO, Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la théorie politique, l’idée foucaldienne de la politique renvoie plutôt à une attitude généalogique fournissant un diagnostic du présent et restituant …
Ce que Michel Foucault fait à la Photographie Sous la direction de Philippe Bazin, Setrogran ebook À propos du livre Table des matières La photographie et l’attitude critique du regard, Orazio IRRERA. La photographie comme expérience politique du paysage. À propos de Lewis Baltz et de Michel Foucault, Arianna LODESERTO. Figures de la folie – …
Bert, J. (2016). Introduction à Michel Foucault. Paris: La Découverte. (Original edition 2011) Présentation Michel Foucault (1926-1984) aura été en France le plus novateur des maîtres à penser – maître sans programme qui a su offrir à ses lecteurs une « boîte à outils » qu’il expose par fragments dans ses entretiens, cours, articles et …
Alasdair J.H. Jones, On South Bank: The Production of Public Space, Routledge, 2014 Description Tensions over the production of urban public space came to the fore in summer 2013 with mass protests in Turkey sparked by a plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul. In London, concomitant proposals to refurbish an area of the ’South …
Edward Mendelson, Book reviews: In the depths of the digital age, Financial Review, Nov 17 2016 Extract The most socially alarming effect of the digital revolution is the state of continuous surveillance endured, with varying levels of complaisance, by everyone who uses a smartphone. Bernard Harcourt’s intellectually energetic book Exposed surveys the damage inflicted on …
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