Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? | Books | The Guardian Blake Morrison Sat 10 Mar Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies And then there’s Foucault, the fourth volume of whose major …
The transformative effect of university-level learning inside prisons | Times Higher Education Features Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports. March 15, 2018 PDF if you can’t access online Extracts […] HMP Isis is located in south-east London, not far from …
‘An incredible transformation’: how rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convert | US news | The Guardian Abdullahi Yusuf was having an identity crisis. Culturally marooned between home life with his traditional Somali parents and immersion in his everyday American school life in Minnesota, the Muslim teen gradually found his way to terrorist …
Editor: An unfortunate flip remark from former Australian Labor Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd: Foucault’s more painful than the knife in my back The Sunday Times, November 19 2017. PDF of article Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister ousted by his deputy, tells Leaf Arbuthnot his Oxford PhD course can be brutal too, Kevin Rudd, the …
Speaking the language of change? Nissim Mannathukkaren, The Hindu (newspaper), July 17,2017 The World Bank’s reports show that social movements may be shaping the bank’s language Democratic Centralism entails popular participation in formulating the plan at the enterprise level. — World Bank Romania country report, 1979 The World Bank’s ‘World Development Report 2017’ is a …
[Editor: You never know where references to Foucault’s name will pop up…] Todd Martens, Meet Disney’s philosopher king: the brain behind ‘Avatar’s’ Pandora and Marvel’s ‘Guardians’ ride, Los Angeles Times, May 25 2017 When visitors set foot into Pandora — The World of Avatar at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., they will find glowing …
The False Difference Between the Right and the Left, Haaretz, Ofer Sitbon Apr 28, 2017 Jean-Claude Michéa has recently garnered unusual exposure: His book “Notre ennemi, le capital” (2017), made the front page of Le Monde on January 1. The philosopher, who was born in 1950, teaches philosophy in a high school in Montpellier, France. …
Sam Leith, In our Google era, indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world, The Guardian, Thursday 30 March 2017 […] Today, the Society of Indexers – the industry body for those professionals (for which, full disclosure, I have the honour to be honorary president) – turns 60 years old. It celebrates its “anniversary, …
Quand la CIA s’intéressait de près à Foucault, Derrida et Althusser. Le Monde, 23.03.2017 En 1985, les espions américains se félicitaient de la décomposition de la gauche intellectuelle française. Et passaient complètement à côté de la popularité croissante de ces mêmes philosophes dans leur pays. Les espions lisent de la philosophie. Ce n’est d’ailleurs pas …
Editor: What do Foucault and the Duchess of Cambridge have in common? The polo neck skivvy! The affordable staple that has become the Duchess of Cambridge’s secret wardrobe weapon, The Telegraph, 23 February 2017 The Duchess of Cambridge is now, we can all agree, a pro in the royal dressing stakes. For her increasingly regular …
