Daniela Blei How the Index Card Cataloged the World – The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2017 […] The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy. But like all information systems, the index card had unexpected political …
La carne e l’amicizia Deleuze per Foucault II La verità del desiderio. Les aveux de la chair Paolo Godani Finalmente gli eredi del lascito di Michel Foucault hanno ritenuto fosse venuto il momento di pubblicare Les aveux de la chair. Un’opera attesa da decenni, su cui molto si è fantasticato… Deleuze per Foucault. Il potere Paolo …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Critica: La carne e l’amicizia Deleuze per Foucault, Laboratorio “archeologia filosofica”, 2018 Gilles Deleuze, Il potere. Corso su Michel Foucault (1985-1986)/2, Ombre Corte, 2018 On the occasion of the publication in France of Les aveux de la chair, the “so called” fourth Foucault volume of the History of sexuality, and the contemporary publication …
Life After Sundown: Disco Architecture in the Global City | Features | Archinect, By Alan Ruiz, Feb 7, 2017 Samuel Delaney describes the disco as one site of “inter-class contact,”² rehearsing a now familiar understanding of the dance floor as teeming with the possibility for alternative forms of sociality. In this sense, the disco is …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi Archeologia della penalità psichiatrica. Psichiatri, giudici e degenerati During the 1970s, Michel Foucault realized the most important ensemble of research about psychiatry intertwined with the penal system. The courses at the Collège de France: ‘La Societé Punitive’ (1971-72), ‘Le Pouvoir Psychiatrique’ (1972-73), ‘Les anormaux’ (1974-75), the book Surveiller et Punir (1975), combined …
Susan Milner, From Foucault to Valls: experiments with basic income in France. IPR blog, University of Bath, 25th November 2016 Dr Susan Milner is Reader in European Politics at the University of Bath. In line with changes discussed in the British context, it is startling to observe how much has shifted in French policy debates …
Gordon Hull, Foucault and Marx: on Subjectification and Exhaustion, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 25 September 2017 I have been circling around the relation between Marx and Foucault for a while, and thinking in particular about the ways that they can be viewed as productively engaged, particularly at the intersection of primitive accumulation and …
Gabriel Rockhill, The CIA Reads French Theory: On The Intellectual Labor Of Dismantling The Cultural Left. The Philosophical Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 Feb 2017 Also in French on Mediapart Quand la CIA s’attelait à démanteler la gauche intellectuelle française It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched …
Casey Williams, Has Trump Stolen Philosophy’s Critical Tools? The Stone, The New York Times, April 17, 2017 Truth is pliable in Trumpland. In March, the president fired off a tweet accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, dismissed the …
On Problematization Elaborations on a Theme in “Late Foucault” By Clive Barnett, Nonsite.org, Issue 16, June 22, 2015 1. What is a “Foucault”? For at least four decades now, the ideas of Michel Foucault have resonated across a wide range of academic fields in the English-speaking academy. While this influence is perhaps most clearly felt …
