Colin Gordon, The will of the people in post-truth times. Notes on the current situation (2016) Full text on academia.edu 10th July 2016 Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave an interview this week on French TV, discussing Brexit, referendums and democracy, in which he said that “we should stop saying that the people is always right”.1 Should we …
William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism, Theory Culture and Society, 7 March 2014 The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become increasingly familiar over recent years. The term was relatively unheard-of until the 1990s, but was then adopted principally by the critics of a perceived free market orthodoxy, which was spreading around the world under the auspices …
Colin Gordon: A Comment on Fassin and Chatterjee, 12/13 blog, 5 May 2016 Among the valuable Foucault 13/13 series of video and written discussions of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures, recently coordinated at Columbia University by Bernard E Harcourt and Jesus R Velasco, I was struck by the following comments, linked to the session …
Stephane J Baele, Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe’s refugee crisis?, The Conversation, February 25, 2016 Translation into French Translation into Turkish In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health …
Jeffrey Vagle, Surveillance Is Still About Power, Just Security, February 9, 2016 Since the Snowden revelations in 2013, surveillance has gone from a somewhat arcane term of art used mainly by scholars, spies, and tinfoil hat types, to a household word that now comes up in conversations on such far ranging topics as national security, …
Delphine Merx, S’écrire soi-même, Implications philosophiques Open access article Résumé Résumé : La notion de « subjectivation » interroge ce processus qui, d’un sujet malléable et à déterminer, fait surgir une certaine constitution du soi, et les moyens de cette formation. Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault se sont chacun à leur tour penchés sur cette …
Ben Golder, Human rights without humanism. Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?, Originally on the Stanford University Press blog, 27 October 2015. Currently on The Australian Public Law site (October 2025) […] As human rights rise in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s so too does the work of thinkers …
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran: The ‘Spirit Of A Spiritless World’ – OpEd (2016), Eurasia Review: A Journal of Analysis and News 13 February 2016 On the occasion of the thirty seventh anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, we are compelled to revisit the unique insights of Michel Foucault, the late French philosopher, who observed …
Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is very hard to put into practice, especially when the thinker in question belongs both …
Planting Foucault in Juárez. A Translator’s Reflections on the Story of Two Teenage Murderers Separated by Almost Two Centuries by John Washington “He donned his holiday clothes, had his sister sing a canticle beginning ‘O happy day! holy joy!” and, his mind wholly deranged, his weapon, an ax, in hand, he executed his mother, his …
