David Glover, Scott McCracken (editors)
new
formations 55 contains a previously unpublished interview with Michel
Foucault, conducted in 1979. Three new essays assess its place in Foucault’s
work. It also includes an interview with S.I. Martin and two new essays
on his novel, Incomparable World. Additional essays address friendship
and same-sex relationships, queer cosmopolitanism and Queer as Folk,
W.G. Sebald and history, Beckett and Adorno, the work of the artist Alia
Hasan-Khan, and Jewish identity.
Contributors: David Alderson, Chris Campbell, David Cunningham, David Glover, Leila Kamali, Moya Lloyd, Christopher Lane, John Marks, S.I. Martin, Frank Mort, Stephen Morton, Roy Peters, Tom Roach, Lynne Segal, Andrew Thacker.
Cover image: Michel Foucault © Clarin Group
CONTENTS
Scott McCracken Editorial
Frank Mort and Roy Peters Foucault
Recalled: Interview with Michel Foucault
Christopher Lane Foucault and Extradiscursive Sexuality
David Glover Foucault,
Sexuality, Liberalism: a Commentary
Moya Lloyd Still Thinking Differently: Foucault and Andrew Thacker
Twenty Years On
Tom Roach Impersonal Friends: Foucault, Guibert and an Ethics of
Discomfort
David Alderson Queer Cosmopolitanism: Place, Politics, Citizenship
and Queer as Folk
John Marks W.G. Sebald: Invisible and Intangible Forces
David Cunningham Asceticism Against Colour, or Modernism, Abstraction
and the Lateness of Beckett
Stephen Morton 'The Situation is Really Terrible There': Terrorism,
Site Specificity and Ethical Response in the Artistic Practice of Alia Hasan-Khan
Christopher Campbell Interview with S.I. Martin and Leila Kamali
Leila Kamali 'Circular Talk': the Social City and Atlantic Slave
Routes in S.I. Martin's Incomparable World
Christopher Campbell Writing, Representation and Rescue: Narrating
an Eighteenth-Century History in S.I. Martin's Incomparable World
Lynne Segal The Hidden Powers of Injury
REVIEWS
Sue Vice The Holocaust in Theory
Caren Irr African-American Postmodernism: Resisting the Literary
Ben Highmore Surrealism and Mass Observation: the Missing Link
BOOKNOTES
Asha Nadkarni, Lisa Brocklebank