Foucault in the Panopticon How Michel Foucault’s encounters in Poland’s heavily policed gay community informed his ideas GEOFF SHULLENBERGER | Reason, FROM THE DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the …
Jean-Luc Caron, André Tubeuf, un récit brillant sur son Paris culturel des années 1950, Res Musica, 8 décembre 2021 Avoir vingt ans et commencer (récit). André Tubeuf. Actes Sud. Novembre 2021 Connu de tous les mélomanes pour l’élégance de son écriture, l’étendue de son érudition et son enthousiasme communicatif, André Tubeuf nous propose un récit …
Kathryn Hughes, Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – virtuosic portrait of a star surrealist, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Given the ubiquity of René Magritte’s images in our culture it is a shock to learn that no one was interested in the Belgian surrealist …
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Journal d’Amérique, La Règle du Jeu – Littérature, Philosophie, Politique, Art, novembre 2021 Présentant outre-Atlantique son film «Une autre idée du monde» («The Will to See»), Bernard-Henri Lévy confie ses impressions d’Amérique. Ici, aux États-Unis, mon livre et mon film s’intitulent The Will to See. J’aime cette tonalité nietzschéenne, ou foucaldienne, dans un …
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon Omar Sabbagh on a biography of Jacques Derrida. Philosophy Now, 2021 Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida, Verso Books, 2020, 320 pages, £11.99 hb, ISBN 978-1788732802 Deciding to write a biog raphy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), even a predominantly intellectual …
Review of Stuart Elden: The Early Foucault on Phenomenological Reviews 20 September 2021. Stuart Elden’s The Early Foucault is the third of a four-volume study of the origins and development of Michel Foucault’s thought. This book is the first one regarding the period it covers, basically the 1950s, but it is the third to be …
Federico Soldani, The Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief: “We will be transformed into biopolitical citizens” Psypolitics blog 3 August 2021 Topics that readers of PsyPolitics might already be familiar with such as the concepts of power, for instance as discussed by Michel Foucault, the transformation “from citizens to patients” – formulated for the first time in 2019 – …
Daniel Schultz reviews A Face Drawn in Sand, Critical Inquiry, 21 July 2021 Rey Chow. A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 232 pp. Open access In her new book, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present, Rey Chow …
Book Review Symposium Book Symposium: Critique And Praxis, British Journal of Sociology Volume 72, Issue 3, June 2021 Open access Critique and Praxis Rebecca Elliott Critique & Praxis is nothing short of a colossal achievement, which will be discussed for years to come Miguel de Beistegui Lonely and beyond truth? Two objections to Bernard Harcourt’s …
Jonathan Fanara, « La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux » : techno-surveillance, Le Mag du Ciné, 6 juin 2021 Review in English Dans La Machine ne ferme jamais les yeux (Delcourt/Encrages), Yvan Greenberg, Joe Canlas et Everett Patterson se penchent sur les technologies de surveillance et la manière dont nos données privées sont exploitées …
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