Hull, Gordon, Infrastructure, Modulation, Portal: Thinking with Foucault about how Internet Architecture Shapes Subjects, SSRN (January 22, 2021). Open access Abstract Following Foucault’s remarks on the importance of architecture to disciplinary power, this paper offers a typology of power relations expressed in different models of Internet governance. Infrastructure governance understands the Internet as a common …
Linda Steele, Disability, criminal justice and law: Reconsidering court diversion. Routledge, 2020. Book Description Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law’s complicity in the debilitation of disabled people. In a post-deinstitutionalisation era, diverting disabled people from criminal justice systems and into mental health and disability services is …
Mathieu Arminjon & Régis Marion-Veyron, Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage (2021) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (1), art. no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 Open access Abstract In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect …
George Kokkinidis and Marco Checchi, Power matters: Posthuman entanglements in a social solidarity clinic (2021) Organization, Vol 30, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420973304 Abstract This paper develops a materialist and performative conception of power, proposing a theoretical framework that bridges Barad’s intra-active agential ontology and Foucault’s microphysics of power. The article uses empirical data collected from a …
Carol S. Walther, Stephanie D. Jones, Corrine M. Wickens, and Rodrigo Martinez, “The Numbers Are Eye Popping”: Statistical Consciousness as a Discursive Tool to Monitor Same-Sex Demography (2021) Social Currents, vol 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496520983850 Abstract In this article, we examine newspaper accounts of same-sex demography to examine how journalists use U.S. Census Bureau statistics …
H. Unnathi S. Samaraweera (2020). Is resilience a unique extension rather than a rejection of neoliberalism? A critical reading of David Chandler’s writings on resilience. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-05-2020-0050 Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to engage with the concept of resilience as theorized by David Chandler in his book …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Displacing the Confessional: Resistance to Orthodox Christian Governmentality, Giorgi Vachnadze blog, 16 January 2021 The following text will provide a critical reflection on the social and political context of the Georgian Orthodox Christian Church as an extension of the state-apparatus. Looking briefly at the history, the global/local political climate and the role of …
Christian Möller, Discipline and Feed: Food Banks, Pastoral Power, and the Medicalisation of Poverty in the UK, Sociological Research Online, Published January 5, 2021 DOI: 10.1177/1360780420982625 Open access Abstract Food banks across the UK are offering basic food supplies and a range of support services to people who have been affected by years of welfare …
Eric Schliesser, 28 March 1979: Foucault on Locke’s World Historical Conceptual Shift (XXXVII),Digressions & Impressions, 5 January 2021 [Editor: 11 March 2026. Link above is to the page archived on The Wayback Machine.] […] Because most of lecture 11 is a brilliant analysis of the history of criminology and the (sometimes overlapping) significance of Gary …
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later. The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics, Edited by Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, and Samir Haddad. Columbia University Press, 2016 Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, …
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