Matko Krce-Ivančić (2018) Governing through anxiety. Journal for Cultural Research, 22(3), 262–277. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1537587 ABSTRACT This article examines anxiety, arguing that it is a systemic feature of neoliberalism which regenerates the economy and acts in a conservative manner, thereby effectively preventing social change. Anxiety is explored using psychoanalytic theory to extend Foucault’s conception of neoliberal governmentality …
Marc Schuilenburg and Rik Peeters, Smart cities and the architecture of security: pastoral power and the scripted design of public space, City Territory and Architecture (2018) 5, 13 DOI10.1186/s40410-018-0090-8 Abstract The architecture of security is often thought of in terms of situational crime prevention and defensible space. In this article, we argue that the emergence …
Francescomaria Tedesco, Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance, Routledge, 2018 Description When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose …
Randell-Moon, H., 2018. Digital Cartography Enterprise: Neoliberalism, Governmentality and Digital Infrastructure. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2), pp.77–95. DOI:http://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.293 Abstract The Gigatown competition (2013–2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media …
materiali foucaultiani volume VI, number 11-12 (January-December 2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS Le confessioni della carne (pp. 3-6) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Michel Foucault et la subjectivation Introduzione. Soggettivazione e assoggettamento, a partire da Foucault (pp. 9-14) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Subjectivité et normativité …
Tyler King, The Hacker ‘Ethic:’ Digital Infrastructures as the Battleground of Conflicting Liberalism, Society and Space, 2018 […] Although increased internet security and greater public internet access may seem somewhat counterintuitive, both ideals were mobilized and justified through liberal means in order to promote this state agenda. Michel Foucault’s (1977-1978: 18-20) analysis of the development …
Antonio Pele (2018) Human Dignity in the Renaissance? Dignitas Hominis and “Spiritual counter-subjectivity”: a Foucauldian Approach. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718814874 Abstract: The historical making of human dignity is usually understood either as a result of a progressive history of the recognition of the human being’s worthiness or as an upward equalization of ranks. The present …
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