Collections

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Published: 14/12/23

Identity Boom in Contemporary Literature

This special collection, edited by Annika Klanke and Stephanie Marx, scrutinizes the "identity boom" in contemporary literature, i.e., the proliferation of texts that prompt us to (once again) question the relevance of categories such as gender, race, class, etc.

Collection
Published: 25/12/22

Confronting Discrimination

This ongoing collection, edited by Michaela Bstieler, Andreas Oberprantacher, and Sergej Seitz, fathoms how phenomenological and genealogical methodologies can be put to use for the critical analysis of discrimination.

Collection
Published: 04/02/22

Posthuman Gender Theory

This collection, edited by Anna Babka and Hildegard Kernmayer et al., deals with current positions and developments within the frame of what can be called Posthuman Gender Theory. The contributions ask how the category of gender can be negotiated under "posthumanist" conditions.

Collection
Published: 29/03/21

Places and Spaces of Knowledge

Addressing the history of knowledge in spatial terms, this collection, edited by Sabrina Corbellini and Margriet Hoogvliet, welcomes contributions dealing with situated and material practices of production and dissemination related to knowledge in the premodern world.

Collection
Published: 01/05/20

Critical Genealogies

This collection, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Colin Koopman, and Bonnie Sheehey, presents genealogical works-in-progress and reflections on methodological questions of research design, strategy, and structure.

Collection
Published: 10/03/20

Politics of Truth

Against the backdrop of the current debates on "post truth," this collection, edited by Gerald Posselt and Sergej Seitz, problematizes the relation of truth and politics, centering on Foucault's notion of a "politics of truth."

Collection
Published: 01/02/19

Foucault meets Latour

Dispositifs, discourses, networks, modes of existence: this collection, edited by Simon Ganahl and Patrick Kilian, confronts the thought of Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour by focusing on their conceptual toolboxes as well as their shared interest in the question of modernity.

Collection
Published: 01/09/17

Algorithmic Governmentality

This collection, edited by Maurice Erb and Simon Ganahl, addresses the concept of "algorithmic governmentality," which impels us to examine recent advances in automated computing (e.g., recommender systems) from a Foucauldian perspective.

Collection
Published: 06/02/17

Topologien der Erfahrung

Starting from Deleuze's claim that the late Foucault was a topologist like Andrei Bely in his modernist novel Petersburg (1913/14), this collection, edited by Simon Ganahl and Elena Vogman, collects research both on Foucault's spatial approaches and on literary topographies.

Collection
Published: 28/06/16

Distant Reading and Discourse Analysis

By comparing Franco Moretti's distant reading with Foucault's archaeological approach, this collection, edited by Maurice Erb, Simon Ganahl, and Patrick Kilian, examines the question if historical discourse analyses can be carried out with the aid of computers.

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Published: 14/02/16

Was heißt: Foucault historisieren?

This collection, edited by Maurice Erb, Simon Ganahl, and Cécile Stehrenberger, collects the papers and lectures delivered at the international conference "What is: Historicizing Foucault?" held at the University of Zurich from March 19 to 21, 2015.