Matan Oram, Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault, The Totality of Reason, Routledge, 2017 About the Book Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault’s thought. This …
Quentin Molinier, La « French Theory » du spectateur, Nonfiction.fr, 2015 Compte rendu: Christian Ruby, Spectateur et politique. D’une conception crépusculaire à une conception affirmative de la culture ?, La Lettre Volée, 2014 Résumé : Qu’est-ce qu’être spectateur aujourd’hui ? Et quel est son rôle, son destin politique ? L’auteur montre en quoi les réflexions …
Gary Gutting, What Philosophy Can Do, W.W. Norton, 2016 “A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity.”—Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone Reader How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we …
Anthony Alessandrini, “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes”, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, March 23 2017 Part of a Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 272 pp., $27.00 US (pbk), ISBN 9780816699490. Full PDF Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault …
In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Foucault in Brazil Review of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Lamparina 2016), 176 pages Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman, Theory Culture and Society, 22 March 2017 Open access Abstract: Michel Foucault visited Brazil five times from 1965 to 1976 yet the details …
Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même Conférences prononcées à l’Université Victoria de Toronto Vrin – Philosophie du présent 296 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2749-3 – mars 2017 À la fin du premier semestre 1982, Michel Foucault prononce à l’Université Victoria de Toronto un cycle de conférences intitulé Dire vrai sur soi-même. Le …
Géraldine Muhlmann, Journalism for Democracy, trans. Jean Birrell, Polity, 2010 Editor: There are some very interesting remarks on Foucault, Bourdieu and journalism in the first chapter Description Journalists are commonly denounced from all sides – a shameful, deceitful trade, a profession sold out to the powerful which gives a biased and misleading picture of the …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, El contrato colonial de Chile, Sciencia, racismo, nación Abya Yala, 2016 PDF cover and table of contents En los orígenes de la nación chilena se ocultan una serie de elementos raciales que pueden remontarse a muchos años antes de su establecimiento formal como institución política. Las ideas de “raza” y “racismo” son el …
Eric Wilson, Precarious Politics, The Blackstone Review, December 2016 Review of State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey, Verso, 2015 […] Using Foucault’s notion of self-governance, Lorey helps to demonstrate how the hustler internalizes the imperative to hustle. Self-governance implies the ways in which a population is made, through a variety of …
Kenneth C. Werbin, The List Serves: Population Control and Power, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017 See also this link Preface by: Geert Lovink. Edited By: Miriam Rasch. Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Leonieke van Dipten. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Printer: Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017. ISBN: 978-94-92302-15-1, …
