Nicholas de Villiers. Porno Cultures Podcast, July 10, 2019. Interview with Brandon Arroyo. facebook.com/AcademicSex When we think about the rhetoric around sex workers it’s often easier to hear or read opinions advocating for the abolishment of sex work coming from politicians or “concerned citizens” who are not sex workers, or have never bothered to speak …
Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, Thomas F. Carter, The Anthropology of Sport. Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics, University of California Press, 2017 Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional …
Benjamin Meiches, The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) Interview with author conducted by Jeff Bachman Description For a term coined just seventy-five years ago, genocide has become a remarkably potent idea. But has it transformed from a truly novel vision for international justice into a conservative, even inaccessible …
Jonas Čeika, A Critique of Stephen Hicks’ 2011 book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (2018) Hick’s book is published by Ockham’s Razor an outlet for objectivist and Randian perspectives.
Michel Foucault from A to Z. Eventually, Foucault speaks about his problems in defining the term “discourse”.
Then & Now Published on May 30, 2019 In this introduction to Foucault I look at the poststructuralist philosopher’s influences and context (Nietzsche, Levi-Strauss & Sartre, among others), and summarise his position through his three most influential works, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. Foucault’s thought takes two approaches …
Michel Foucault from A to Z. Foucault on Jeremy Bentham the auto-icon, the utilitarian and the inventor of the panopticon…
Catherine M. Soussloff discusses her book Foucault on Painting, This Is Not A Pipe Podcast, April 25, 2019 Catherine M. Soussloff discusses her book Foucault on Painting with Chris Richardson. Soussloff, Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz is the author of Foucault …
Michel Foucault on “Les aveux de la chair” (2019) Theoretical Puppets Published on Jun 3, 2018 Foucault speaks about his new book and the avowals of a chair…
Theoretical Puppets Published on May 19, 2019 Michel Foucault from A to Z. Foucault talks about Power and Freedom and the Liberty of Puppets…
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