From the Ashgate Publishing blog. The book edited by Anne Brunon Ernst Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon (details posted earlier on this blog) has been awarded ‘research-essential’ status by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services. In the introduction to Beyond Foucault Anne Brunon-Ernst includes a quote from Foucault: Bentham is more important for the understanding of …
Jeffrey P. Bishop, The Anticipatory Corpse. Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, University of Notre Dame Press. 440p $35 Description In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our …
Érik Bordeleau, Foucault anonymat, Le Quartanier 2012 Présentation Il y a un rapport fondamental dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault entre résistance politique et expérience de l’anonymat. Ce rapport est demeuré peu exploré, en particulier dans le contexte de sa réception nord-américaine. difficile d’en expliquer le pourquoi. on peut certainement supposer que la célébration de la …
From the new ‘Between Foucault and Deleuze’ website. August 2025 update: This site no longer exists. The link above is to the site as it was captured by the Wayback Machine in 2015 The aim of the “Between Deleuze and Foucault” project is to establish an on-going collaborative and synergistic relationship between Purdue University and …
Audrey Kiéfer et David Risse (eds). La biopolitique outre-atlantique après Foucault, Editions Harmattan, 2012 From the détentions et rétentions carcérales blog Principe de précaution. Bioéthique. Multiplication et diversification des dispositifs de contrôle des corps. Sexualité. Placement sous surveillance électronique. Village d’insertion pour les communautés Roms. Ces dispositifs de pouvoirs se présentent-ils comme rassurants, novateurs, libéralisateurs …
Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk, Routledge (Interventions Series), 2012, ISBN: 978-0-415-61772-7 Publisher’s web page Description Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes …
Beatrice Hibou, The Force of Obedience: The Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011 Publisher’s page Description This highly original book is a detailed analysis of the everyday mechanisms of domination and repression that enable political regimes to function and to secure the submission of their populations. It takes modern-day Tunisia as …
James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2011 Description Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault’s investigation of ethics, James D. Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault’s specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is …
Julien Pallotta, L’Ecole mutuelle au-delà de Foucault, Editions EuroPhilosophie 2012, Bibliothèque de Philosophie sociale et Politique. ISSN 2110-5251 Résumé Ce travail, tout en partant des analyses de l’appareil scolaire dans Surveiller et punir, interroge la description que Foucault livre de l’école mutuelle comme ultime rationalisation disciplinaire de la « machine à apprendre ». Pour cela, …
Anne Brunon-Ernst, ed. Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon, London: Routledge, March 2012 Pdf flyer Description In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, …
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