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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies Number 23: August 2017: Discipline and Punish Today Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. PDF 1-3 Special Issue on Discipline and Punish Today Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish…

Originally posted on Feminist Philosophers:
We write as members (existing staff, students, and graduates) of UK humanities departments to object to the proliferation of precarious short-term teaching contracts across UKHE institutions. As the UCU has reported, nearly half of UK…

David Beer discusses Metric Power on the New Books in Critical Theory podcast with Dave O’Brien. How do metrics rule the social world? In Metric Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) David Beer, Reader in Sociology at the University of York, outlines the rise of the metric and the … Continue reading →

Michel Foucault e as insurreições: é inútil revoltar-se?, Margareth Rago, Sílvio Gallo (orgs.). Thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for the link to this collection, who says that many of the contributors will also be contributing to the next issue of the Carceral … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
Written by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams and Dr. Georg Löfflmann for The Conversation. Fortress Europe: Macdeonian soldiers patrol the Greek border. Georgi Licovski/EPA Despite being bombarded with headlines about the “migrant crisis” facing Europe, little is really known…

I’ve mentioned Helen Sword’s book Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write here before. There is a short discussion on this theme from her in the Times Higher Education. How do successful academics write, and how do they … Continue reading →

Sandro Mezzadra and David Harvey discuss the right to the city in Bologna.