Stephen Graham, Foucault’s Boomerang: the New Military Urbanism OpenDemocracy, 14 February 2013. According to Stephen Graham, a new set of ‘Foucauldian boomerang effects’ are shaping how states apply ‘tactics of control’ over everyday urban life. Today, he traces the emergence of what he calls a new military urbanism, which applies to cities both in the …
Richard Herbert, Madness and Superheroes. A Foucaultian analysis of the madness of the gritty, realistic superhero movie, Overthinking It site, September 3rd, 2013. ‘We must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled’. –Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization In 1938, Americans who tuned into Mercury …
13 Things You Didn’t Know About Deleuze and Guattari – Part III, by Eugene Wolters, 2 July 2013 Some interesting anecdotes #11 Foucault saw Deleuze as a rival Some may find it surprising that the author of “Anti-Oedipus’” glowing introduction kind of hated the book. While Michel Foucault put on airs of amicability towards Deleuze, …
Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, Foucault et la genealogie des sexes, Ici et ailleurs, 9 juin 2013 Comment aborder l’œuvre d’un auteur qui ne voulait pas être un auteur, qui reniait la notion d’œuvre, et en plus dans une recherche sur un sujet dont d’ailleurs il ne s’occupa pas trop ? Probablement de la même façon dont …
