New book for 2010:
Just a reminder that STP will be released this week. When I receive it I will offer my impressions.
Update: In the meantime you can read Stuart Elden’s take here (I believe the article is now web posted–look under forthcoming articles in E+PD).
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Foucault defined his use of the term dispositif (apparatus) in 1977: (more…)
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Mary Beard, the classics editor at the TLS (and Cambridge Prof.) gently but properly chides me for some earlier thoughts on the Scull TLS review. I had pointed out that attacks on Foucault were politically motivated. Yes, in the long run this does not address the issue (so what? as long as their points are valid).
A little less properly she implies that I take the inverse view of letting political friends get away with historical murder.
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