Landenne, Quentin, et Emmanuel Salanskis, éd. Les métamorphoses de la « généalogie » après Nietzsche. Bruxelles: Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pusl.28428. Open access Les contributions réunies dans ce volume visent à explorer le champ des postérités généalogiques de Nietzsche. Dans cette perspective, il convient d’abord de faire une nette distinction entre la dimension programmatique …
Vachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming Press. 978-9925-8118-8-5. Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence, written by Wittgenstein and Foucault scholar Giorgio Vachnadze, draws a circle around many topics that have been important to Becoming’s editorial line, from epistemology to cybernetics, biopolitics, philosophy of music and semiology. The …
Aleksandra Wójtowicz, The Staszic Palace as Affective Heterotopia : New Category of Spatial Description, Peter Lang, 2024 Summary The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character. The book …
Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, Edited by Carson Welch, Verso, 2024. Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from ‘America’s leading Marxist critic’ Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible …
Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024 Édition de : Henri-Paul Fruchaud Préface : Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Frédéric Gros À paraître De 1961, date de son retour en France après plusieurs années passées en Suède, en Pologne et en Allemagne, jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault a été très régulièrement présent à la radio, …
Boucheron, Patrick. Of What Is History Capable?. Translated by Liz Libbrecht, Collège de France, Open edition books, 2018 https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cdf.5852 Open access Extracts We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of thought, but of practical …
Ege Selin Islekel, Nightmare Remains. The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance, Northwestern University Press, 2024 Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of necrosovereignty shapes …
Jonas Oßwald, Deleuze und Foucault. Ein Dialog, Campus, 2024 Über das Buch Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault verband eine »philosophische Freundschaft«, so der Tenor. Doch trotz zahlreicher gegenseitiger Bezugnahmen, lobender Rezensionen und füreinander verfasster Vorworte gibt es bisher kaum Arbeiten, die sich mit dem philosophischen Gehalt dieser Beziehung befassen. Jonas Oßwald zeigt erstmals die grundlegende …
Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic & María José Martínez Sánchez, Placeness and the Performative Production of Space, Bloomsbury, 2024 (forthcoming) Description How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance …
Malcolm Voyce, Foucault and Family Relations. Governing from a Distance in Australia, Lexington Books, 2019 Foucault and Family Relations: Governing from a Distance in Australia analyzes how notions of property ownership were instrumental in maintaining family stability and continuity in rural Australia, outlining how inheritance and divorce laws functioned to govern the internal relationships of …
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