Judith Butler,‘What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue’

Robert J.C. Young,‘Foucault on Race and Colonialism’

Scu’s new blog, Critical Animal, entries on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism: An Introduction — Yulia Tikhonova

Why I Am a Marxist — Vladislav Sofronov

The Theory of Marxism: Questions and Answers — Vladislav Sofronov; Fredric Jameson; Jack Amariglio; Yahya M. Madra

The Karl Marx School of the English Language — David Riff

You Can’t Anticipate Explosions: Jacques Rancière in Conversation with Chto Delat — Jacques Rancière; Artemy Magun; Dmitry Vilensky; Alexandr Skidan

Profanation of the Profane, or, Giorgio Agamben on the Moscow Biennale — Alexei Penzin

The Story of Angry Sandwich People, or, In Praise of Dialectics — David Riff; Dmitry Vilensky

Legally Soviet: A Conversation — Yevgeniy Fiks; Olga Kopenkina

Foucault, Marxism, and the Cuban Revolution: Historical and Contemporary Reflections — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Foucault and the “New Man”: Conversations on Foucault in Cuba — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Massive Change: The Exhibit as Apology for “New Capitalism” — Lauren Langman

From Principle to Context: Marx versus Nozick and Rawls on Distributive Justice — Xiaoping Wei

Development, Capitalism, and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on the Cooperative Principle — Anjan Chakrabarti; Anup Kumar Dhar

I have reviewed Tamara Chaplin’s Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television

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A review of Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge

Readers of Foucault’s texts have long been perplexed by the apparent shift his writings underwent in the late 1970s. Following the appearance of the first volume of The History of Sexuality (Le volunté de savoir, translated as The History of Sexuality: An Introduction) in 1976, Foucault’s investigations inexplicably change focus: from an investigation of the prison and the mechanisms of power that produce the modern individual in Discipline and Punish, the second and third volumes of the History of Sexuality focus on practices of the self in ancient Greece and Rome. Indeed, at the time of his death, Foucault was at work on a fourth volume examining the practices of the self in the Christian era.1 How does one account for the fact that the thinker who had written in 1966 that the one could “certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand and at the edge of the sea” was suddenly writing about the various practices of the self prevalent in the ancient world, practices that were meant to ensure individual freedom and autonomy?2 This, after all, was the thinker that had famously feuded with Jean-Paul Sartre and labeled him an outmoded thinker of systems, better suited for the nineteenth century than the twentieth, who was now writing about themes seemingly much more at home in Existentialist writings than his own anti-humanist ones.

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Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing — Claudia Leeb

Ethics and Subjectivity: Practices of Self-Governance in the Late Lectures of Michel Foucault — Nancy Luxon

Voting the General Will: Rousseau on Decision Rules — Melissa Schwartzberg

Harriet Martineau on the Theory and Practice of Democracy in America — Lisa Pace Vetter

A special issue of Telos

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TOC: Volume 12 Issue Number 1 Spring 2008

Violence and Embodiment — JAMES MENSCH

Personnage, pensée, perception: Entre figure esthétique et personnage conceptuel, oscille le personnage du cinéma — CAROLINE SAN MARTIN

The Sublimity of Violence: Kant and the Aesthetic Response to the French Revolution –RADU NECULAU

Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault — SVERRE RAFFNSØE

Deleuze’s Other-Structure: Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic, but at What Cost? — JACK REYNOLDS

Le commun et le capital: Réflexions sur le récit thérapeutique d’Antonio Negri — DALIE GIROUX

Erfahren and Erleben: Metaphysical Experience and its Overcoming in Heidegger’s Beiträge — JIM VERNON

Essays are available here

Making Poverty Visible – Three Theses
Alexander García Düttmann, translated by Arne De Boever

‘Falling out of one’s role with art’: Samuel Weber on Benjamin’s -abilities
Interview by Arne De Boever and Alex Murray

Becoming against History: Deleuze, Toynbee and Vitalist Historiography
Christian Kerslake

Differance of the ‘real’
Michael Marder

Why is ‘speaking the truth’ fearless? ‘Danger’ and ‘truth’ in Foucault’s discussion of parrhesia
Alison Ross

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The being-with of being-there — Jean-Luc Nancy

Heidegger on overcoming rationalism through transcendental philosophy — Chad Engelland

Between the face and the voice: Bakhtin meets Levinas — Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan 

Being, aevum, and nothingness: Edith Stein on death and dying — Antonio Calcagno
 
At the same time — Robin Durie

Foucault’s turn from literature — Timothy O’Leary
 
Alan D. Schrift, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers — Ann V. Murphy

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When was 9/11? Philosophy and the terror of futurity — Stella Gaon
    
Foucault's Kantian critique: Philosophy and the present — Christina Hendricks

Deliberation interrupted: Confronting Jürgen Habermas with Claude Lefort — Stefan Rummens

Collapsing categories: Fraser on economy, culture and justice — Chris Armstrong

Religion and capitalism: Weber, Marx and the materialist controversy — Juan Manuel Forte

Review essay: Postphenomenology: 'Festschrift' for Don Ihde (Under consideration: Evan Selinger's Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde) — Søren Riis