Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke, Algorithmic Reason, The New Government of Self and Other, Oxford University Press, forthcoming May 2022 Open access Provides a critical analysis of algorithmic reason and its impact on key political concepts Adopts a global transdisciplinary perspective on algorithmic operations Explores well-known controversies such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, predictive policing …
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Mark G.E. Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity – Polity, March 2022 This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries. By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms…
Nørup, I., Jacobsen, B. Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty (2021) Social Policy and Administration DOI: 10.1111/spol.12784 Abstract Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up …
Spicksley, K. Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation (2021) British Journal of Sociology of Education DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.2003183 Abstract This article reports findings from a small-scale research project which explored the professional identities of early career teachers working in primary academies in England. During interviews and focus groups, these new teachers resisted identifying as …
Simoncini, A. Reading capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx. [Leer El capital: Foucault, Benjamin, Marx] (2021) Arete, 33 (2), pp. 367-388. DOI: 10.18800/arete.202102.008 Open access Abstract Foucault and Benjamin exploited different themes and categories from Marx’s Capital, in accordance with their topics of interest and theoretical and political options. Foucault concentrated on the analysis of the relations …
Postcolonial Governmentalities. Rationalities, Violences and Contestations Edited by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 This edited volume asks how governmentality and postcolonial approaches can be brought together to help us better understand specific sites and practices of contemporary postcolonial governance. The framework/approach was inspired by the recent use of governmentality approaches that …
Hao, A.X. Make this tango viral: Touching toward the untouchable in tele-synaesthesia performance (2021) Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8 (2-3), pp. 237-266. DOI: 10.1386/JCCA_00046_1 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncanny rift between tact and touch as it expands the virtual towards its potential. Layer upon layer of new information has been repeatedly …
CFP: Session – Geographies of Parrhesia: Resistance, Critique, and the Formation of Self and Other Link Federico Ferretti, University of Bologna Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham Session in Royal Geographical Society with IBG Conference, August 2022, Newcastle University. The influence of Michel Foucault on geographical research is long-standing, widespread, and much critiqued. While his philosophy …
Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology: Arts and Sciences, Historicizing Boundaries Venice, 9-10 June 2022 Confirmed keynote speakers: Peter Galison (Harvard) Caroline Jones MIT Abstract [for full abstract see here] The 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the …
Jusmet, L.R. Constructing oneself as an ethical subject for a true life: The proposals of Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and François Jullien [Construirse como sujeto ético para una vida verdadera. Las propuestas de Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y François Jullien] (2021) Enrahonar, 67, pp. 159-172. DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1372 Abstract This work analyses the line of thought …
