Franck Salaün, Besoin de fiction. Sur l’expérience littéraire de la pensée et le concept de fiction pensante, Paris, Hermann, coll. “Fictions pensantes”, 2010 Présentation de l’éditeur : Les fictions pensent-elles ? On ne se lasse pas de le dire : l’homme est un animal fabulateur, un producteur de fictions. Notre besoin de fiction est même impossible à rassasier. …
Steven Maynard, ‘Foucault: His Thought, His Character (review)’, Labour / Le Travail, 69, Spring 2012, pp. 255-257 Further details Full PDF In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Veyne, now age 82 and Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, is a bit like listening to an elder …
Dean, Mitchell, Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 29, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 145-158 Review of The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by Giorgio Agamben, trans. Lorenzo Chiesa (with Matteo Mandarini) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011 …
Jacques Rancière The Intellectual and His People. Staging the People Volume 2 Verso, 2012 Review by Steven Poole, ‘Non-fiction reviews roundup’, The Guardian, 29 June 2012 The agitator for a “people’s theatre” seeks “to moralise the people through the spread of art”; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, …
A note on Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme by Colin Gordon, July 2012 See here for details of the book Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme was published in France by ENS Editions last December. Foucault’s recently, and imminently to be published work (notably the 1984, 1980 and Louvain lectures) are adding …
Tucker, Elizabeth (2011). Review “Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others Who Changed Tense”. The Journal of American folklore (0021-8715), 124 (491), pp. 119-20. Review of Bruce Jackson, Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others …
Lloyd, Vincent. (2011). “Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological”. Review of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009″. Theory, culture & society, 28 (5), pp. 144-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/026327641139930 Abstract Violence may be productively understood as a secularized theological concept. Doing so challenges claims …
Santos, Filipe D. (2011). “Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject – Edited by A. Fejes & K. Nicoll Book Reviews”. Educational philosophy and theory, 43 (8), pp. 898-900. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00699.x Review of A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds) Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject, Routledge, 2008. Extract This book is the first dedicated solely …
Darragh O’Donoghue, Retour en Normandie, Senses of Cinema, Issue 60, October 2011. Full article online […]It is no coincidence that with Retour en Normandie (Return to Normandy) Philibert should abandon his seemingly “objective” direct cinema approach to produce his most formally complex and self-reflexive film to date. Moi, Pierre Rivière is a docudrama based on …
John Rapko (2011) ‘Enchantment and Malaise’: Michel Foucault on Manet. Review of Michel Foucault’s Manet and the Object of Painting, Artcritical. The Online magazine of arts and ideas, Sunday 31st July 2011. In 1967 Michel Foucault obtained a contract for a book on Manet, tentatively titled La Noir et la Surface. There’s no evidence to …
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