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...Mark Mazower © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Foucault, Agamben: Theory and the Nazis Mark Mazower It was “a threatening world which could crush us . . . a situation that had to end.” “Waiting for the dawn,” was how he...

... an environmental genealogy from historical references within Michel Foucault's work on the relationship between land enclosures and rise of the prison, in order to establish a larger constellation in which to think the event of immigration incarceration today. The essay places Foucault's work in conversation...

...Lynne Huffer Abstract This essay reviews the first and last volumes of Stuart Elden's four‐volume intellectual biography of Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault (2021) and Foucault's Last Decade (2016). It borrows from Roland Barthes an abecedarian method to experiment with the play between order...

...Stuart Elden Duke University Press 2002 The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault’s «Il faut défendre la société» and the Politics of Calculation Stuart Elden What is meant by the word constitution? If we...

...Gary Gutting Duke University Press 2002 Foucault’s Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Michel Foucault was always, and quite deliberately, a moving target, so he may well have demurred from the idea that these three thick...

...Ed Cohen Both Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler underscore the importance of “care” as a political and philosophical value. This article juxtaposes Stiegler's embrace of “mystagogy” and Foucault's use of “psychagogy” in order to suggest why each of these thinkers dares to care. © 2017 by Duke...

...Donald E. Pease “The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity” situates Michel Foucault's method of genealogical analysis within the history of critique, examines the usage to which David Scott has put Foucault to reconfigure the problem-space of postcolonial studies, and explains how Scott's...

...Manuel DeLanda The subject of this essay is the authority structure of institutional organizations. Authority has two aspects: its legitimacy and its enforcement. Max Weber gave us the means to think about the practices involved in the legitimation of authority, while Michel Foucault provided us...

...Ubaraj Katawal This article examines William V. Spanos’s works in relation to those of other postcolonial thinkers such as Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Edward Said. Like many of these writers, Spanos draws from Michel Foucault’s critique of the power-knowledge relation. However...

... Michel Foucault’s notion of “the thought of the outside,” whereby the domineering speaking subject of knowledge disappears in the infinite boundedness of language. Restless flying, it is argued, is elemental of what I term poiēsis in black , referencing a set of practices-of-living articulating...

... of culture. It then proceeds to analyze the culturalism disguised by the vocabulary of Foucault in the work of anthropologists Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood. It concludes by reflecting on the concepts of gratitude and the visceral in the writings of political theorist William Connolly. © 2013 by Duke...

...Wlad Godzich This is a brief introduction to the life and work of Friedrich Kittler placed in the context of his relation to Heidegger, Foucault, and Lacan. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) Wlad Godzich...

...; from Germany’s coming to terms with its Nazi past to contemporary memory studies; from world literature and globalization to the humanities education today; from his intellectual debt to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault to his first exposure to the work of Theodor Adorno, and his relationship...

... been legally interpreted as his will, Michel Foucault made his views on this subject clear. As a result, the fourth volume of the His- tory of Sexuality series, Les Aveux de la chair [The confession of the flesh], which Foucault was working on at the time of his death, remains unpub- lished.1...

... Speak?” to contemporary critical theory is its immanent cri- tique of theory’s material embeddedness in global capitalism. The essay exposes the myriad ways in which Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s accounts of power were ideologically blind to the international division of labor (IDL...

... in contemporary globalization because such policies are neces- sarily imbricated in the processes and technologies of power that capitalize humanity. A thorough examination of this modality of global power requires that we (1) correct the tenacious misunderstanding of Michel Foucault’s account of power...

... disciplines and genres and attained its narrative cohesion through its complex relationship with fiction. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 somapolitics criminal anthropology race Foucault empire References Agamben Giorgio . 2000a . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare...

... of modernity. Among the most prominent and formative of these theorists for Graham’s argument are Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour. I intend to focus on Graham’s representative use of Foucault y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 114 of 252 because he...

... of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics (2018) and Extimacy: Encounters Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2024). Her work has been translated into Spanish, Arabic, and French. Ayça Çubukçu is an anthropologist who teaches as associate professor in human rights at the London...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati Daniel T. O’Hara One of Michel Foucault’s final lecture courses, published recently as The Hermeneutics...