Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Frédéric Gros et Judith Revel, Cahier Foucault, Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011 « Escrimeur plus que sabreur, Foucault est resté un dissident politique, toujours à la riposte plus qu’à la parade, sans jamais laisser s’automatiser ses esquives ou ses bottes ni prêter à imitation facile. » Toute la variété de l’oeuvre de …
From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …
Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …
Sabine Audrerie, A l’ami qui m’a sauvé la vie. Compte rendu de Matthieu Lindon Ce qu’aimer veut dire. Paris: P.O.L., 2011, La Croix, 12 janvier 2011 L’écrivain et journaliste Mathieu Lindon fait le très beau récit de son amitié avec Michel Foucault et de ses liens avec son père, Jérôme, fondateur des Éditions de Minuit …
Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with …
Iara Vigo de Lima, Foucault’s Archaeology of Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, having strongly influenced a large number of disciplines. He has played a fundamental role in the construction of new ways of thinking and radical changes in the …
Sarah Wilson, The Visual World of French Theory. Yale: Yale Univeristy Press, Figurations, 2010. For further details see publisher’s site. Description This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the artists of their times, most particularly …
Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk, London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-58343-5 Description Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security …
A review by Thosaeng Chaochuti which appears on the New Mandala blog draws attention to a chapter on the uptake of Foucault in Thailand. Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand, with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Hong Kong and Ithaca: Hong …
Iver B. Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010 About the Book What does globalization mean for the principle of state sovereignty and for the power and functioning of states? Whereas realists assert the continued importance of states, constructivists contend that various political entities …
