Umberto Eco 1988 640p MMPB Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up ‘the Plan’, a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a … Continue reading Foucault’s Pendulum
An Archealogy of Medical Perception Michel Foucault 1963 240p 5 x 8 In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors … Continue reading The Birth of the Clinic
A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault 1965 320p 5 x 8 Foucault’s first major book, it is an examination of the evolving meaning of madness in European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method … Continue reading Madness and Civilization
The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 1975 333p 5 x 8 Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul. The four main parts include: torture, punishment, discipline and prison. $4-12 … Continue reading Discipline and Punish
An Introduction: The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault 1976 168p 5 x 8 According to Foucault, by the 19th-century, when capitalism and industrialization had allowed for the development of a dominant bourgeois social class, discourse on sex was not suppressed, but in fact proliferated. Bourgeois society ‘put into operation an entire machinery for producing true … Continue reading The History of Sexuality Vol. I
Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh 1991 524p 6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it … Continue reading The London Hanged
Mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria Silvia Federici 2004 367p 5 x 8 Marx dice el capitalismo entra en la historia cubierto de sangre desde el recinto de las tierras comunales, la esclavitud de los europeos al salario, y el exterminio y la esclavitud de los africanos y americanos nativos. Foucault observa el mismo period de … Continue reading Calibán y la bruja
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading
Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 2004 393p 6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks … Continue reading Caliban and the Witch