Nicholas De Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol, University of Minnesota Press Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of “the closet” when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American …
Franck Salaün, Besoin de fiction. Sur l’expérience littéraire de la pensée et le concept de fiction pensante, Paris, Hermann, coll. “Fictions pensantes”, 2010 Présentation de l’éditeur : Les fictions pensent-elles ? On ne se lasse pas de le dire : l’homme est un animal fabulateur, un producteur de fictions. Notre besoin de fiction est même impossible à rassasier. …
Michel Foucault, Du Gouvernement des vivants. Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980) Date de parution 25/10/2012 Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Collection Hautes Etudes 320 pages – 25 € TTC Publisher’s site Du Gouvernement des vivants est un cours charnière. Prononcé au Collège de France au premier trimestre 1980, Michel Foucault y poursuit cette histoire des « …
Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. The Function of Avowal in Justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer, University of Chicago Press 296 pages, © 2013 Publisher’s page Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained …
pdf flyer Michel Foucault, Mal faire, dire vrai. La fonction de l’aveu en justice Édition établie par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (2012) Co-éditeur : University of Chicago Press ISBN : 978-2-87558-040-5 382 pages L’ouvrage Aux mois d’avril et de mai 1981, Michel Foucault prononce un cours qu’il intitule …
Jacques Rancière The Intellectual and His People. Staging the People Volume 2 Verso, 2012 Review by Steven Poole, ‘Non-fiction reviews roundup’, The Guardian, 29 June 2012 The agitator for a “people’s theatre” seeks “to moralise the people through the spread of art”; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, …
Domingo Fernández Agis & Ángela Sierra González (eds.), La Biopolítica en el mundo actual. Reflexiones sobre el Efecto Foucault, Barcelona: Laertes, 2012, 204 p. (ISBN: 978-84-7584-874-7) En su origen, la aplicación del concepto de biopolítica como directriz pragmática está vinculada a una interpretación organicista del Estado, que considera a este un todo orgánico susceptible de …
Lauri Siisiäinen, Foucault & the Politics of Hearing. Routledge, July 2012 Publisher’s page Description The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault’s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet …
A note on Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme by Colin Gordon, July 2012 See here for details of the book Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme was published in France by ENS Editions last December. Foucault’s recently, and imminently to be published work (notably the 1984, 1980 and Louvain lectures) are adding …
Anne Brunon-Ernst, Utilitarian Biopolitics: Bentham, Foucault and Modern Power, Routledge, 2012 Description The works of Foucault and Bentham have been regularly examined in isolation and in reference to Panopticon; or The Inspection House (1791), yet rarely has the relationship between the two philosophers been explored further. This study traces the full breadth of that relationship …
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