Review by A. Janae Sholtz of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014.09.25 Extract […] Hoffman makes several signature claims. As his central thesis, he proposes the relationship between Foucault’s political and militant activities and his analysis of power as a dialectic interplay, …
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Blackhat’: Techno-thriller hacks into Michael Mann’s directorial signatures, By Peter Suderman — Special to The Washington Times – – Friday, January 16, 2015 The cinematic world of Michael Mann, the director behind “Heat,” “Collateral,” “The Insider” and “Miami Vice,” might look more or less like ours on the surface, but in fact it’s …
Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt (eds.), Stephen W. Sawyer (tr.), University of Chicago Press, 2014, 344pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226257709. Reviewed by Todd May, Clemson University, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 January 2015 This volume consists of six lectures, preceded by an inaugural lecture and …
Jamie Melrose. Foucault’s archaeology: science and transformation, Review of Foucault’s archaeology: science and transformation , by David Webb, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 181 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7486-2421-8, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, December 2014 DOI:10.1080/13642529.2015.985974 Extract from review At root, David Webb’s Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation is an attempt …
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Gordon Hull – Why Foucault is Still Helpful on Neoliberalism, An und für sich blog, January 3, 2015 The conceptual core of Daniel Zamora’s “Can We Criticize Foucault,” in which he argues that Foucault’s late writings end up advocating the same things neoliberalism does, seems to me to be the …
Mini-Series on Foucault and Neoliberalism: Responses to Zamora An und für sich blog, Monday, December 22, 2014 — Mark William Westmoreland Around the New Year, AUFS will be hosting a 4 day mini-series on Foucault and neoliberalism. What precisely is Foucault’s relationship with neoliberalism, particularly as expressed in Foucault’s writings/lectures on governmentality and biopolitics? In some …
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Un precursore del blairismo e della Terza via? Un pensatore sedotto dal neoliberismo? L’ultima barriera della borghesia contro Marx? La collocazione politica di Michel Foucault da sempre è fonte di dibattito. Un libro appena uscito e curato dal sociologo belga Daniel Zamora, Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et…
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A trent’anni esatti dalla scomparsa avvenuta per SIDA, l’autarchico acronimo francese, il 25 giugno del 1984, Michel Foucault è pienamente nel secolo, ovvero nell’opinione comune. Il suo magistero caleidoscopico ed erudito ha sedotto frotte di studiosi, in particolare quelli che hanno risciacquato i panni nella Senna e oggi…
Jonathan Rée, Foucault, put to the question, Times Literary Supplement, 3 December 2014 Review of Michel Foucault, Wrong-doing, Truth-telling. The function of avowal in justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 344pp. University of Chicago Press. Throughout his frantic career as teacher, writer and activist, Michel Foucault kept …
Paolo B. Vernaglione, Follia e discorso, Alfabeta2, 22 luglio 2014 Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine “Brisset era stato ufficiale di politzia giudiziaria. Dava lezioni di lingua. Ai suoi allievi proponeva dettati come: Noi Paul Parfait, carabinieri a piedi, essendo stati mandati al villaggio Capeur, vi siamo …
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