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 …
Kelly Bulkeley, Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming, Huffpost, 24 August 2017 I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a new book, Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought, by Sharon Sliwinski, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Sliwinski approaches dreaming as a powerful resource for political theory and action, …
Lydia Davis, Foucault and Pencil (short story) The author reading her story (audio file) ‘The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis’ Review by Michelle de Kretser, The Monthly, Australian politics and culture, October 2010 In the United States, Lydia Davis has long been acclaimed for her experiments in short fiction. Elsewhere, she is best known as …
Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …
Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting Personal: How Biosecurity Gets Under Our Skin, Green European Journal, vol 15, April 2017 The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will be invoked to justify human rights infringements or to start a war, …
Biancamaria Fontana, Would you mind imprisoning my wife? Times Literary Supplement, May 17, 2017 Review of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families. Infamous letters from the Bastille archives. Edited by Nancy Luxon. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton 344pp. University of Minnesota Press. $35. Imagine living in a country where your domestic conflicts could be solved …
Richard Lee, Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’. The Guardian, 5 May 2017 The Frenchman’s novel about the blurred line between fiction and reality, The 7th Function of Language, is all the more poignant in the era of Trump, Le Pen and fake news. […] His latest novel, The …
Alberto Comparini, Between Philosophy and History: On Guido Mazzoni’s “Theory of the Novel”, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 15, 2017 BETWEEN 1995 AND 2010, Guido Mazzoni worked on three books: a study of modern poetry (Sulla poesia moderna, 2005); a collection of poems (I mondi [Worlds], 2010); and, finally, a theory of the novel …
Quentin Molinier, La « French Theory » du spectateur, Nonfiction.fr, 2015 Compte rendu: Christian Ruby, Spectateur et politique. D’une conception crépusculaire à une conception affirmative de la culture ?, La Lettre Volée, 2014 Résumé : Qu’est-ce qu’être spectateur aujourd’hui ? Et quel est son rôle, son destin politique ? L’auteur montre en quoi les réflexions …
Anthony Alessandrini, “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes”, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, March 23 2017 Part of a Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 272 pp., $27.00 US (pbk), ISBN 9780816699490. Full PDF Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault …
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