Early next week, a special issue of Foucault Studies that I guest edited will go online at the journal's website here:
http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/issue/archive.
This exciting and pathbreaking issue, whose theme is New Work on Foucault and Disability, is intended to mark the publication of the second edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press) later in the week. (I edited both the first and second editions.) The special issue includes contributions from me, Kelly Fritsch, Xuan-Thuy Nguyen, Scott Yates, and Aimi Hamraie. Don't miss it!
The photo that I have chosen for the cover of the issue is copied below and appears here with an image description. The artist, Judith Scott, who was deaf and had Down syndrome, was institutionalized for most of her life and began to make amazing sculptures and other art after her twin sister removed her from the institution and introduced her to Creative Growth, a center for disabled artists in Oakland, CA. Brooklyn Museum recently held a retrospective of Scott's work. You can read about that retrospective show and learn more about Judith Scott and her art, as well as view a slide show of some of Scott's work in this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/arts/design/judith-scotts-enigmatic-sculptures-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html
Shelley Tremain
Image description: The background of the photo is black. The artwork in the photo is comprised of a bright blue wooden chair with four legs and a back. Various items, including an upturned basket on the seat of the chair and a white wheel which sits upright against the back of the chair, are tied to the chair with criss-crossing and overlapping strands of multi-coloured fabric, wool, string, and paper.
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