Chaput, C., Hanan, J.S. Economic Rhetoric as Taxis: Neoliberal governmentality and the dispositif of freakonomics (2014) Journal of Cultural Economy. Article in Press. Abstract This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning …
The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …
Andrew Zimmerman, Foucault in Berkeley and Magnitogorsk: Totalitarianism and the limits of liberal critique (2014) Contemporary European History, 23 (2), pp. 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777314000101 Abstract Returning to Stephen Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization almost two decades after its publication allows us to take stock, from a slight temporal distance, of the reception in our …
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds.) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism, Fordham University Press, July 2014 ISBN: 9780823255979 Further info See below description for details of book launch at University of NSW Description Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought …
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …
Mark Kelly DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 17 September, 3.30pm-5.00pm PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown All welcome ABSTRACT: In this paper, I critically assess Gilles Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ thesis, in relation to both the work of Michel Foucault which inspired it, and the work …
Robin James, Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool, Culture, Theory, and Critique 52 (2):138-158 (2014) Further info Abstract Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali’s theory of “composition” and the biopolitics of “uncool.” Reading Jacques Attali’s …
Anthony Alessandrini, Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions, Jadaliyya, April 01 2014 [This article is the final in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first and second installments here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France” by Diren Valayden and “Justifications of Power”: …
Muriam Haleh Davis, ‘Justifications of Power’: Neoliberalism and the Role of Empire, Jadaliyya, March 25, 2014 This article is the second in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first installment here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France“ by Diren …
Harcourt, Bernard E., Digital Security in the Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Neoliberal Age of Big Data (2014). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-404; APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2455223 and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2455223## Abstract: In 1827, Nicolaus Heinrich Julius, a professor at the University of Berlin, identified an important …
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