Category Archives: Ann Laura Stoler

Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading

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The Funambulist on Stoler, Foucault and Race

The Funambulist has an interesting post on ‘The Desired Colonized Body: Foucault and Race by Ann Laura Stoler‘. I clearly remember reading Stoler’s text Race and the Education of Desire while doing my PhD, and finding its discussion of Foucault’s as-then-unpublished lecture course … Continue reading

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Books received – Stoler and Derrida

Two books I’ve mentioned before – Ann Laura Stoler’s collection Imperial Debris, and Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty, Volume I.

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Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

I missed this when it came out in June, but an important looking collection edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination has been published by Duke University Press. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of … Continue reading

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