Originally posted on In the Moment:
Daniele Lorenzini ? In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.” It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still…
COVID-19 Essays TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, March 23, 2020 Editorial Introduction: Writing in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Vulnerability to Solidarity This is a rapid response collection of essays. In the evening on Sunday, March 15 we began contacting Canadian-based scholars working in the field of biopolitics to write a short, …
Editor: I will be back to posting regularly soon. Like most of the world, Australia is in its own version of national lock down. Conditions in Australia, and in particular in sub-tropical Queensland where I am located, are very easy in comparison to many other places around the globe. The government has acted fast in …
Editor: Many thanks to Mauro Bertani for alerting me to this compendium of links on the La Scuola di filosofia di Trieste site. Speciale Coronavirus Segnaliamo qui una serie di articoli interessanti che riflettono sulla situazione che stiamo vivendo in questi giorni. David Grossman, Dopo la peste torneremo a essere umani, “la Repubblica”, 20 marzo 2020 …
Editor: A very useful – and growing – list of references put together by Stuart Elden on the Progressive Geographies blog. I have now added a new “Pandemic” category to Foucault News. Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 Several A few pieces by geographers, sociologists and philosophers – presented without commentary. First posted 24 March …
A. Chong, Governance for global pandemics, East Asia Forum: Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, 26 March 2020 Much of the public alarm triggered by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is greatly bound up with the management of cross-border security threats. COVID-19 resembles a 21st century medieval plague …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
As an earlier post said, I’ve had to cancel two talks – in New York and Bologna – and some archival work because of the current medical situation. There is a bit more on that below, but as much as possible I’m trying to continue work on The Early Foucault…
Elliot Grover, What Can Daniel Defoe’s “Plague Year” Teach Us About Coronavirus?, InsideHook, 17 March 2020 A novel written in 1722 offers a surprisingly relevant blueprint to navigating a 2020 pandemic The panic began the moment the earliest cases were confirmed. Those with means hurriedly packed their belongings and fled the city. Those who stayed …
Felipe Demetri, Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault, Naked Punch, 21 March 2020 […] What the coronavirus epidemic shows us is more the strength of Michel Foucault’s explanatory scheme than the current necro-thanatopolitical strain of interpretations. We all know that Foucault saw biopower as a series of events, from theoretical ones to concrete practices, …
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Foucault And The Politics Of Coronavirus Pandemic – OpEd, Eurasia Review, News and Analysis, March 12, 2020 As the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, relentlessly continues it mayhem around the world, on the intellectual side it has also provoked fresh conversations on the (geo) politics and the related ramifications in terms of …
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