Nicholas de Villiers, Sexography.Sex Work in Documentary, University of Minnesota Press, Forthcoming 2017 A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational …
Heather Brunskell-Evans (Ed) The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 Book Description This edited collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine (in particular, sexology and psycho-therapy) whereby medicine has historically, and …
Letzlove, portrait(s) Foucault Adaptation de Pierre Maillet d’après Vingt ans et après / Letzlove l’anagramme d’une rencontre de Thierry Voeltzel mise en scène Pierre Maillet Du mar. 28/02/17 au sam. 04/03/17 Rouen Du mar. 25/04/17 au jeu. 27/04/17 Brest Critiques Présentation Eté 1975. Un jeune homme fait du stop sur l’autoroute en direction de Caen. …
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 …
Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet (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, Routledge, 2017 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 a broader …
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