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, …
Jonathan Tran, Foucault and Theology, Bloomsbury, 2011 Description Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault never seriously entertained Christianity …
Jonathan Lyons, Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism, Columbia University Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-231-15894-7 Description Despite the West’s growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas …
Tucker, Elizabeth (2011). Review “Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others Who Changed Tense”. The Journal of American folklore (0021-8715), 124 (491), pp. 119-20. Review of Bruce Jackson, Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others …
Lloyd, Vincent. (2011). “Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological”. Review of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009″. Theory, culture & society, 28 (5), pp. 144-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/026327641139930 Abstract Violence may be productively understood as a secularized theological concept. Doing so challenges claims …
