Daily Five.

In Iran, the government is shutting-down ‘technical services‘.

Robots are a liability.

‘The roof was on fire‘.

The Queen complains to the media about the medium.

Is the public responsible for the Iraq War?

TCS News: Special Issue on Michel Foucault.

Theory, Culture & Society is pleased to announce that a special issue on Michel Foucault will soon be off the press.

And of great note, the coming issue will include a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault, ‘Alternatives to the Prison: Dissemination or Decline of Social Control’?

THEORY, CULTURE & SOCIETY Vol. 26 (6)

Special Issue on Michel Foucault
Edited by Couze Venn and Tiziana Terranova

Articles

Couze Venn and Tiziana Terronova – Introduction: Thinking after Michel Foucault.

Michel Foucault – Alternatives to the Prison: Dissemination or Decline of Social Control?

Paul Rabinow – Foucault’s Untimely Struggle: Toward a Form of Spirituality.

Judith Revel – Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions.

Lois McNay – Self as Enterprise: Dilemmas of Control and Resistance in Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics.

Stephen J. Collier – Topologies of Power: Foucault’s Analysis of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality’.

Maurizio Lazzarato – Neoliberalism in Action: Inequality, Insecurity and the Reconstitution of the Social.

Eugene Thacker – The Shadows of Atheology: Epidemics, Power and Life after Foucault.

Brian Massumi – National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers.

David Macey – Rethinking Biopolitics, Race and Power in the Wake of Foucault.

Couze Venn – Neoliberal Political Economy, Biopolitics and Colonialism: A Transcolonial Genealogy of Inequality.

Tiziana Terranova – Another Life: The Nature of Political Economy in Foucault’s Genealogy of Biopolitics.

Please visit: http://tcs.sagepub.com

Daily Five.

DVD box sets are ritualistic abuse.

An almost forgotten board is changing surfing.

In Japan, small coalition parties have real power.

Copenhagen sex workers are really interested in climate change.

East Berlin’s Ampelmännchen is doing well for himself.

Daily Five.

In Thailand, charcoal was responsible for the near collapse of fisheries. 

Instead of cuts, India plans on slowing carbon emissions.

Slave labour makes for cheap shrimp.

Vladimir Putin likes to drop hints.

Where in the world is Osama bin Laden?

Daily Five.

The pathologist at Bhopal is dying of exposure.

Google is starting to be less free.

In the UK, Labour wants to change the politics of councils.

In Brazil, police say that they will have a softer touch.

Marketing doesn’t exactly change people’s minds.

Daily Five.

Social democracy is living dead.

Water has a precarious future in the American West.

Homeowners Associations aren’t green.

The Obama effect: Journalists are turning access into book deals.

Instant replay isn’t coming to the beautiful game.

Daily Five.

In post-Soviet Europe, the environment isn’t always green.

Trees aren’t trees anymore, they’re now ‘carbon sinks‘.

A military dictatorship could be emerging in Iran.

Uranium is not easy to come-by.

‘Sustainable food’ isn’t that sustainable.

 

Daily Five.

What is Europe’s ‘Muslim Question‘?

Switzerland has voted to ban marinets on mosques.

In Saudi Arabia, Facebook has become a tool of protest.

In Los Angeles, a gabacho does mariachi.

Norman Rockwell had a photographic eye.

Daily Five.

In Kenya, recent violence may be driven my climate change.

In New York’s Catskills, an energy find is dividing a community.

Scientists need to change the way they communicate.

India has a ‘repat’ problem.

Being famous for being famous isn’t really a career anymore.

Daily Five.

The CIA wanted to know how magicians pulled rabbits out of hats.

Nobody really knows what is going to happen at Dubai World.

Habitat for Humanity is now helping the foreclosed.

The UK is supporting a fund to confront the ‘climate emergency‘.

There were some black eyes on Black Monday.

Daily Five.

It’s not just Black Friday, it’s also Buy Nothing Day.

In Iran, Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Prize has been confiscated.

Thanksgiving was not a good day to work in the Emergency Room.

What the hell am I doing walking in LA?

Hotness makes for weird politics.

Daily Five.

There’s a science to having a delicious Thanksgiving.

In America, health care has some interesting demographics.

If there are no editors, does wikipedia exist?

Mental illness is not cheap.

Russia is investing in loonies.

Daily Five.

In America, the party of Rogues and Mavericks want ideological purity.

Also in America, PayPal is changing the finance of politics.

California is going to have to be religious about water.

In Poland, communist symbols may be banned.

Stephen Fry says that social media can be ‘malevolent‘.

Daily Five.

In the UK, a report says that policing playgrounds would cut all crime.

Climate change is already having an impact in the Caribbean.

In Afghanistan, America is arming anti-Taliban militias.

In China, the middle class is getting into environmental protest.

Psycho taught America to love murder.

Daily Five.

In the UK, being an MP is profitably, especially if you’re a Tory.

In Colorado, a car dealership wants to antagonise potential customers.

A manifesto has laid-out the battle lines of America’s next culture war.

Bureaucracies will always do things the hard way.

Television has become the medium of children’s fantasies.

Daily Five.

Even plants have a social life.

Stephen King writes a good book review.

The US Navy is planning for an ice-free Arctic.

Sometimes the designer matters as much as their design.

The Green Economy has yet to benefit women and minorities.

Daily Five.

Africa is entering an age of Agri-Imperialism.

Turkish-German youth don’t feel at home in Germany.

The US military wants to be able to predict Post-Traumatic Stress.

All industialised countries have plans to cut emissions, except America.

Latin isn’t dead, yet.

Daily Five.

In Tokyo, Narita Airport is purgatory for a Chinese dissident.

In America, tax codes promote debt.

What are cookbooks good for?

Yoga is becoming a sport.

Paris’ nightlife is in exile.

Daily Five.

Mobile phones may replace books as the place for text.

Irony is not funny when it’s all too real.

The EU wants a seat at the UN.

Youtube is getting-into journalism.

Bad road design is deadly.

Daily Five.

American unions are starting to like the idea of workers’ cooperatives.

In America, smokers have their own geography.

When it comes to climate change, latitude matters.

Military tactics used in Iraq may come to the streets of California.

The future of cartography is social media.

Daily Five.

With climate change, jellyfish are now regulars in fisheries.

Even the creative class doesn’t know what to do with social media.

The Netherlands is going to tax drivers by the kilometer.

In India, Maoist rebels have a unique culture.

In the UK, academic researchers are going have to become salesfolk.

Daily Five.

There will be no Copenhagen Treaty.

In Japan, politics has been an unusually profitable profession.

Colombia and Venezuela are getting really hostile with each other.

In China, the Three Gorges Dam is not going according to plan.

Blogging is for shills.

Daily Five.

In Copenhagen, gang-related violence is spilling into the streets.

Social scientists have no confidence in their research.

Economists think that they can save the environment by putting a price on it.

Silvio Berlusconi has a new scheme to keep himself in charge.

Parks are ideal for greenwashing.

 

Daily Five.

Michael Caine is worried about the kids.

In India, girls are refusing to be child brides.

In Nevada, aquifers have gone radioactive.

Electric engines won’t be green if power plants aren’t greener.

Your parents were hep or groovy or whatever was cool back then.

Daily Five.

In Germany, a ‘cuddly’ group of militants has some early hits.

Physicists have turned to pop-up books to explain their science.

It sounds like Gordon Brown is getting tough on immigration.

There’s a lot of illegal immigrants in America’s jails.

Celebrity sex tapes test the limits of fair use.