Le droit selon... Michel Foucault
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Le christianisme comme régime de vérité chez Michel Foucault : les enjeux anthropologiques, éthiques et politiques
Cette thèse déploie ses harmoniques au sein du paradigme de ce que les philosophes, les politistes, les sociologues, les théologiens et les historiens des religions appellent « Michel Foucault et le christianisme ». Se fondant essentiellement sur Du gouvernement des vivants, elle comprend le christianisme comme un régime de vérité, et explique d’un...
Michel Foucault lecteur d’Austin (Tunis, 1967) : thématiser le matériau analytique
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"Panopticism: Literary and Critical Approaches"
Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012). When contemporary fiction grapples with disciplinary visuality
In her 2012 novel The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan chose to examine the possibility of emancipation from within the care system, and between the walls of an institution modelled on Bentham’s 18th century eponymous invention. Setting the adventures of Anais, an orphan and chronic offender, in that building, testifies to the persistence of the master trop...
Sovereign Surfing in the Society of Control: The Parkour Chase in Casino Royale as a Staging of Social Change
In “Postscript on Societies of Control”, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze proclaimed that “Everywhere surfing has replaced the older sports”. By this, he alluded to Foucault’s thoughts on older societal regimes and power diagrams of sovereignty and discipline, and that now such models have been supplemented with governance through control and alle...
SCIASCIA ET FOUCAULT AU PRISME DE RAYMOND ROUSSEL
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Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Igno...
One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance (2012) as one such retelling. Roberts employs “Bluebeard” to construct a story that utilises the format of a dual coming-of-...
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?
Is universal basic income (UBI) a policy idea whose time has come? Recent historical scholarship now enables us to comprehend the twentieth century evolution of this and similar ideas. UBI is intriguing in having vociferous backers drawn both from the libertarian right—such as, notably, Milton Friedman in the form of his negative income tax...
Après hier. Généalogie et spectralité chez Loznitsa
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