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...Mike Gane This review article considers two lecture courses by Michel Foucault (1972–73, 1979–80) and two books relating to the whole series of lectures (1970–84) by Stuart Elden. Foucault’s lecture courses can be divided into three phases, the first focused on the difference between sovereign...

.... By the same token, it becomes possible to distinguish religion and faith. Not all faith is religion and not all religion is faithful. The article draws on Foucault, discussing the possibility of a “political spirituality” outside the religious domain, as a profane, modern political gesture that cannot...

...Neil Turnbull In contemporary philosophical and theoretical debates, Paul Virilio is relegated to a minor figure, often to a kind of “lesser Baudrillard” or a “diminutive Foucault.” This article contests this view and repositions Virilio as a leading intellectual of the so-called theological turn...

... to the problematization of the conventional spectrum of left and right political positions. Referring to the work of Marx, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon, Stiegler characterizes his account of cultural capitalism in relation to his critique of the philosophy of technology. He talks about how his more...

... Association—as they contest the imperative to produce cultural/knowledge representations on behalf of the present. Drawing on Michel Foucault's identification of the political practice of parrēsia and its relationship to ontologies of veridiction, I argue that the institutionalization of the author stabilizes...

... and reshaped especially by Williams, Gramsci, Bourdieu, and Foucault. Taking the concept of governmentality, he distinguishes his position sharply from the dualistic tendency of traditional cultural studies. His revisionist project is to bring our attention to the relations between culture and governmental...

... of contradictory binaries: body versus soul and body versus mind. The article shows that the hunger strike not only is a political strategy for liberation; it also moves into a spiritualization of the struggle. It uses and problematizes Foucault's “technologies of the self” to theorize the specific formation...

... in every particular with Steiner's goals. For one thing, he would argue that Steiner, like Foucault, has not grasped the import of the neoliberal turn and that the barbarism of the market now outweighs state barbarism in its nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manifestations (it is precisely...

... was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)-Projektnummer 258454408. 1 Where the term Environmentality written with a capital E appears in this essay, it refers to the contemporary mode of governmentality, as used by Foucault (and, today, Brian Massumi...

.... First, I interrogate how contemporary Western scholars such as Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben have turned to theorizations about fascism to make sense of how agency is possible in an increasingly biopolitical regime. I show that this turn to fascism as a means to explain the institution of racism...

..., as well as by complex movements of populations and economic reorganizations. At the heart of Empire rests an analysis that derives not from Marx but from Foucault and Deleuze. Hardt and Negri narrate the emergence of empire as a change in mechanisms of power from societies of discipline...

... . 6. This translation is Alexander Pope's. Peter Sloterdijk cites this first line in Sloterdijk 2004: 336 . On Nietzsche, see Foucault 1991 [1971]: 76–100 ; in addition, see Sarasin 2007: 45–59 . 5. Compare the essay on this topic in Carpenter and McLuhan 1960: 1–3 . See also McLuhan...

... des Geistes aus den Geisteswissenschaften [ Expulsion of the Spirit from the Humanities ] you formulated a radical critique of the established history of ideas. FK: In one of my current lectures I covertly repeated this claim when I spoke about the beauty of Michel Foucault's Order of Things...

... becomes imperative. This question is picked up implicitly by Michel Foucault's biopolitical thought. Threaded through Foucault's ( 1995 , 2009 ) work on biopower is the notion of circulation within which power is encoded. Power, for Foucault, is neither applied nor appropriated: rather...

... to make cash donations to causes about which they know little beyond the words hungry and children . These cash register scripts activate action through vocabulary ( Foucault 2005 : 416), or through a productive relationship to what Raymond Williams ([1976] 1985) described as the keywords...

... . Foucault M. 1990 . History of Sexuality: An Introduction , Volume 1 . New York : Vintage . Foucault M. 2003 . “ Society Must be Defended .” Trans. Macey D. New York : Picador . Harper D.J. 1996 . “ Deconstructing ‘Paranoia’: Towards a Discursive Understanding...

... resistance groups: Combat, Franc-Tireur, and Libération-Sud.—Trans. 51 Alain Grosrichard stresses the importance Foucault immediately had for him, “not least,” he says, “because he was on the entrance panel the year Miller and I got into the École normale” ( Peden 2012 : 224; translation modified...

... not usually found in mainstream cultural studies, although Steven Lukes is absent, and by the development of a Foucauldian approach to power which adopts Foucault’s strategy of objectification through identifying a “thematics” instead of Foucault’s positive theory of it. One must also applaud the breadth...

... of the sphere – form and figure are synonyms (ST: 177) – not chosen arbitrarily and externally as an analytic tool in his hermeneutics of the monstrous? It is instructive to consult his philosophical sources of inspiration: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Deleuze. Truth, Nietzsche states...

....’ ” In Foucault and the History of Our Present , edited by Fuggle Sophie Lanci Yari Tazzioli Martina , 131 – 41 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Butler Judith . 2004 . Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence . London : Verso . Butler Judith . 2010 . Frames...