Robotic Doves Circling over Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, Hans Sluga’s blog […] Our society has developed much further into a surveillance society since Foucault published his book and certainly since Bentham wrote his treatise on the panopticon in the late 18th century. This has not escaped the attention of social scientists and there exists now an …
BBC – Culture – Magritte and the subversive power of his pipe By Cath Pound, 5 December 2017 Editor’s note: old news René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) is one of the most famous yet persistently enigmatic works in the history of art. One of the word-image series of paintings …
UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog: Foucault in the Contemporary Archive, December 2017 CATHERINE M. SOUSSLOFF Professor of art history, visual art, and theory at the University of British Columbia Last spring, I was in Paris as a Visiting Researcher at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, with a beautiful office just steps from …
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, The Skripal Case Through the Lens of Critical Legal Theory, Academia.edu, 2018 How would Michel Foucault interpret the Skripal affair unfolding before our eyes into a major crisis between Russia and the West? This article seeks to draw on the methodology and insights of critical legal theory to analyze and deconstruct the …
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 …
Craig Owen, Nicola De Martini Ugolotti,‘Pra homem, menino e mulher’? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira, International Review for the Sociology of Sport , First Published November 14, 2017 DOI:10.1177/1012690217737044 Blog post on article by Craig Owen This paper uses Foucault’s understanding of power and discourse as the main theoretical focus. Abstract Capoeira is …
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 …
Foucault in Warsaw, Durieux.eu blog, 31 August 2017. Le Soir spends ample space on an article by Maya Szymanowska about a new Polish publication by sociologist Remigiusz Ryzinski, ‘Foucault W Warszawie’ (Foucault in Warsaw – no translations yet). In 1955 Michel Foucault arrives in Uppsala, Sweden, where he will work on his doctoral dissertation. But then in October …
Michel Foucault on prisons, power and the origin of our beliefs Big Thinkers series by The Ethics Centre, 13 July 2017 Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, historian and psychologist whose work explored the underlying power relationships in a range of our modern institutions. Given Foucault’s focus on the ways institutions wield power over us, …
