In a Monastery Turned Asylum, Outcasts Must Band Together
Each character in The Stone of Madness, including a mute man, an orphan and a woman proficient in witchcraft, has strengths ...
‘A dark masterpiece’: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish at 50
French publication of Michel Foucault’s dark masterpiece, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. A book of vast ...
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Monastery escape tactics sim The Stone Of Madness is out now and has me thinking about time
Today is release day for The Game Kitchen's The Stone Of Madness, an isometric tactical stealth game set in an 18th century ...
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The story of Pierre Rivière: the horrible patricide of the nineteenth century that Michel Foucault told
One of the stories told by the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (Poitiers, 1926) is one that speaks of a notorious patricide that shook France in 1835. During a seminar at the College de ...
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How social categories shape society.
From “pauper” to “underclass,” the history of social classification reveals how language constructs a moral economy, determining who is worthy of support and who is marginalized. These terms reinforce ...
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A culture that’s ready for a different kind of close-up
Michel Foucault and David Wojnarowicz, with stories from Betancourt’s own personal experience. In a discussion of the discretion needed for long-term relationships, Betancourt reflects ...
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“There is never any ending to Paris”: Manifestations of Spatiality in Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
The essay deploys a theoretical apparatus relying on the works of Martin Heidegger, Henry Lefebvre, Edward Soja, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Guy Debord, Pierre Nora, and Walter Benjamin in its ...