Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others Who Changed Tense

Tucker, Elizabeth (2011). “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 Who [...]

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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 and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject

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. Further details Review of A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds) Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject, Routledge, 2008. Extract This book is the first dedicated [...]

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Review of Retour en Normandie (2011)

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 [...]

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‘Enchantment and Malaise’: Michel Foucault on Manet (2011)

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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Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir (2011)

Stuart Elden, Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters The most recently published lecture course from Michel Foucault’s time at the Collège de France is his first, entitled ‘La Volonté de Savoir’—the will to know or the will to knowledge. To avoid [...]

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Foucault’s monsters (2010) – review

Ben Golder, Review of Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law, Abingdon: Routledge , 2010 by Andrew Sharpe, The Modern Law Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, July 2011, pp 639–642. Review Andrew Sharpe has written a very erudite and impeccably serious book about monsters. However, Sharpe’s thought-provoking book is not so much about the mythological [...]

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Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, short reviews

Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Stuart Elden has offered some preliminary observations on this new French publication on his blog He has also published some comments by Colin Gordon on this volume as well on his blog

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Foucauldian review of Decision Points by George W. Bush (2011)

Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with [...]

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