New book for 2010:
Via Foucauldian Reflections comes news of some new work by Thomas Lemke, who is at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main. Lemke works on some of the issues surrounding genetics and reproduction from a biopolitical perspective.
His new paper is a discussion of the 78-79 lectures: “An indigestible meal? Foucault, governmentality and state theory” (Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory No. 15, 2007).
Excerpt below.
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The Foucault Archives have now gone online:
http://www.michel-foucault-archives.org/
(via foucault-l)
The site is edited by:
Philippe Artières,
Jean-François Bert,
Daniel Defert,
Frédéric Gros,
Pierre Lascoumes,
Pascal Michon,
Mathieu Potte-Bonneville,
Judith Revel,
José Ruiz-Funes.
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It’s quite interesting how Ignatieff dismisses Foucault’s support for the Iranian revolution with just labelling him as radical and praises Jahanbegloo’s attempts to bring the liberal, pragmatic thinkers such as Rorty and Heller.
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A recurring theme these days is that the lines between the right and the left, when it comes to Iran, has become so blurry that they has almost become meaningless.
The left has started to challenge the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy in a similar fashion to the right. This is what living in the American paradigm does to one’s intellect, I suspect.
(From here.)
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