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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Worth Reading

I’d like to draw the readership’s attention to two recent and excellent articles (note: all three authors are on my supervisory committee): Brian Singer and Lorna Weir “Sovereignty, Governance and the Political: The Problematic of Foucault” Thesis Eleven 94: 49-71. This is a companion article to their “Politics and Sovereign Power: Considerations on Foucault” European [...]

Intermediary thoughts Francione’s Animals as Persons

I’ve been reading Gary Francione’s collection of essays, Animals as Persons, at before going to bed for the past week. Because it is bedtime reading, I haven’t been rushing through and have only read about a third of the book. As readers likely know, my “animal turn” is of rather recent vintage and only goes [...]