Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological. The Myth of Religious Violence

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. Further details Abstract Violence may be productively understood as a secularized theological concept. Doing so challenges [...]

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Foucault, cunoasterea si istoria. Foucault, Knowledge, and History (2011)

Lucian Popescu, Foucault, cunoasterea si istoria, Editura Institutul European Publisher’s page Pdf of abstract in English Extract from Abstract in English Foucault, Knowledge, and History This synthesis on Foucault’s ideas and subjects (author, discourse, sexuality, madness, technologies, methods of writing and representing knowledge, power-knowledge etc.) presents a new way of understanding knowledge, power, history beyond [...]

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Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique (2012)

Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Publisher’s page for the book including sample chapter Description Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation [...]

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Biopower, disciplinary power, and the production of the ‘good Latino/a teacher’ (2011)

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna (2011). “Biopower, disciplinary power, and the production of the ‘good Latino/a teacher’”. Discourse, 32 (1), p. 71. Abstract This inquiry explores who is the ‘good teacher of color’. Through Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower and disciplinary power, the analysis attempts to problematize the subject-position of ‘teacher of color’ by exploring how a [...]

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Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault (2011)

Wang, Chia-Ling (2011). “Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault”. Journal of philosophy of education, 45 (1), p. 141. Abstract This paper explores the significance of the concept of power/knowledge in educational theory. The argument proceeds in two main parts. In the first, I consider aspects of Stephen J. Ball’s highly [...]

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Foucault, Genealogy, Emergence: Re-Examining The Extra-Discursive (2011)

Hardy, Nick (2011). “Foucault, Genealogy, Emergence: Re-Examining The Extra-Discursive”. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 41 (1), p. 68. Abstract This paper offers an alternative theorization of a well known account of restructured social relations-Foucault’s analysis of the production of “delinquency” in Discipline and Punish. The paper argues that in his later “genealogical” accounts [...]

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Heterotopias of Homelessness: Citizenship on the Margins (2011)

Mendel, Maria (2011). “Heterotopias of Homelessness: Citizenship on the Margins”. Studies in philosophy and education, 30 (2), p. 155-68. Abstract The concept of heterotopia challenges political theory, which has often focused on utopic thinking. Foucault describes a heterotopia as a heterogenous space that juxtaposes in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are [...]

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Population and Affective Perception: Biopolitics and Anticipatory Action in US Counterinsurgency Doctrine (2011)

Anderson, Ben (2011). “Population and Affective Perception: Biopolitics and Anticipatory Action in US Counterinsurgency Doctrine”. Antipode, 43 (2), p. 205-36. Abstract This paper analyses the biopolitical logics of current US counterinsurgency doctrine in the context of the multiple forms of biopower that make up the “war on terror”. It argues that counterinsurgency doctrine aims to [...]

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Le rôle de la vérité dans la généalogie foucaldienne du sujet moderne (2012)

« Le rôle de la vérité dans la généalogie foucaldienne du sujet moderne ». Public lecture by Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil/Università « La Sapienza » di Roma) Saturday, the 21st January 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande) Hosted by the Séminaire Foucault, organised [...]

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Misunderstanding the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’: Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault (2011)

Schmidt, James (2011). “Misunderstanding the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’: Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault”. History of European ideas, 37 (1), p. 43. Abstract In his 1969 Trevelyan Lectures, Franco Venturi argued that Kant’s response to the question “What is Enlightenment?” has tended to promote a “philosophical interpretation” of the Enlightenment that leads scholars away from the [...]

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