Lydia Davis, Foucault and Pencil (short story) The author reading her story (audio file) ‘The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis’ Review by Michelle de Kretser, The Monthly, Australian politics and culture, October 2010 In the United States, Lydia Davis has long been acclaimed for her experiments in short fiction. Elsewhere, she is best known as …
Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …
The Seventh Function of Language A Novel Laurent Binet; Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by …
David Beer, Metric Power, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these …
Reinvenções de Foucault Ana Kiffer.(org.) Antonio Pele.(org.) Francisco de Guimaraens.(org.) Mauricio Rocha.(org.) Rafael Becker.(org.) Lamparina, 2017 ISBN 978 85 8316 050 2Cód. barras 9788583160502 Em 1973, Michel Foucault apresenta no Collège de France o Curso “A sociedade punitiva”, parte do conjunto de análises que servirão de base ao livro Vigiar e Punir, de 1975. As …
Daniele Lorenzini, La force du vrai. De Foucault à Austin Le bord de l’eau Format 13×20 cm – 156 p. – 20 € Isbn 9782356875310 Collection « diagnostics » dirigee par Fabienne brugere & Guillaume le Blanc En librairies en juillet 2017 PDF of flyer Cet ouvrage propose une lecture originale du projet foucaldien d’une …
Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting Personal: How Biosecurity Gets Under Our Skin, Green European Journal, vol 15, April 2017 The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will be invoked to justify human rights infringements or to start a war, …
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz, Theory Culture and Society, 22 May 2017 The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz & Vikki Bell March 2017 VB: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book seems to simultaneously explore …
Biancamaria Fontana, Would you mind imprisoning my wife? Times Literary Supplement, May 17, 2017 Review of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families. Infamous letters from the Bastille archives. Edited by Nancy Luxon. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton 344pp. University of Minnesota Press. $35. Imagine living in a country where your domestic conflicts could be solved …
Peter Triantafillou, Neoliberal power and public management reforms, Manchester University Press, April 2017 DESCRIPTION This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical …
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