MARCO DÍAZ MARSÁ, Ley y ser, Derecho y ontología crítica en Foucault (1978-1984) Editorial: Escolar y Mayo Año de publicación: 2016. País de publicación: España Ficha Indice “Sorprende descubrir en este libro una lectura de Foucault muy a contracorriente de lo habitual. Muchos se extrañarán de comprobar hasta qué punto, para Foucault, el cuidado de …
Malcolm Voyce, Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules, Routledge, 2017 About the Book This book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may …
Stuart Elden, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity, 2017 Michel Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift …
Randell-Moon, Holly, Tippet, Ryan (Eds.) Security, Race, Biopower. Essays on Technology and Corporeality, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to …
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives By Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault Edited by Nancy Luxon Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton University of Minnesota Press | 344 pages | January 2017 ISBN 978-0-8166-9534-8 | jacketed cloth | $35.00 First published in French in 1982, this first English translation of Disorderly Families contains ninety-four letters …
Obsolete Capitalism, Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus Translated by Letizia Rustichelli and Ettore Lancellotti, Revised by Edmund Berger Anti-copyright, August 2016, Rizosfera/Obsolete Capitalism, Creative Commons 4.0. ISBN 9788875591007- 2 The book series entitled «The Strong of the Future» deals with accelerationist philosophy, in particular with the thought based on Nietzsche, Klossowski …
The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics Edited by Sergei Prozorov, Simona Rentea, Forthcoming 2017 – Routledge About the Book The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into …
Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency Editors: Seymour, Julie, Hackett, Abigail, Procter, Lisa (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 This book as the foreword states ‘takes up Foucault’s challenge to “examine the critical power of space and place in being and becoming of children’s lives’. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, architecture and …
History and Obstinacy By Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Edited by Devin Fore With Cyrus Shahan, Martin Brady, Helen Hughes and Joel Golb Translated by Richard Langston The MIT Press, 2016 Devin Fore’s introduction which refers to Foucault can be found on his university website Overview If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of …
Mark de Valk (Ed.) Screening the Tortured Body. The Cinema as Scaffold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’ as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily …
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