Disney+ Lands Exclusive French Broadcast Rights to 2025 Oscars, by Ben Croll, Variety, Dec 10, 2024 […] Disney execs also announced a brand new French original, “Surveiller et punir” (a name that plays as a wink to the French title of Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish”). Described as a workplace comedy about a pair of …
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 …
Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michel Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between …
Forthcoming Included in this volume: Johanna Oksala, Foucault and the Task of Philosophy Johanna Oksala
Sujin Lee, Wombs of Empire. Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, Forthcoming, October 2023 Japan’s contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country’s efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is …
Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism. Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue, Manchester University Press, 2023. Forthcoming July Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical …
Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth. Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming September 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. …
Now available for pre-order on the University of Chicago Press website. Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2024, ISBN-13: 9780226383446, Publication date: 01/15/2024, 208pp, Hardcover (First Edition): $35.00 Newly published lectures …
Un inédit de Michel Foucault publié en mai AFP, 10 mars 2023 Un inédit de Michel Foucault, “Le Discours philosophique”, réflexion sur les rapports entre philosophie et actualité, sera publié le 12 mai, ont annoncé jeudi les éditions du Seuil. Cet essai permettra de lire un manuscrit quasi achevé que le philosophe entama en 1966 …
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