The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence. By Merve Emre, The New Yorker, April 12, 2021 Daniel Goleman’s pop-psychology blockbuster, now twenty-five years old, turned self-control into a corporate management tool. […] It is a vision of personal freedom achieved, paradoxically, through constant self-regulation. “Emotional Intelligence” imagines a world constituted of little more than a series …
Moreira, F.G.A. The Will to Synthesis: Nietzsche, Carnap and the Continental-Analytic Gap (2020) Nietzsche-Studien, 49 (1), pp. 150-170. DOI: 10.1515/nietzstu-2020-0007 Abstract This essay presupposes that Friedrich Nietzsche and Rudolf Carnap champion contrasting reactions to the fact that, throughout history, persons have been engaged in metaphysical disputes. Nietzsche embraces a libertarian reaction that is in agreement …
Christopher Ying, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Paul Rabinow dies at age 76, The Daily Californian, April 11, 2021 Paul Rabinow, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology and world-renowned anthropologist, died April 6 at the age of 76 in his Berkeley home. Rabinow spent about 41 years at UC Berkeley between 1978 to 2019, serving as …
Dennis, M. Technologies of self-cultivation how to improve Stoic self-care apps (2020) Human Affairs, 30 (4), pp. 549-558. DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2020-0048 Abstract Self-care apps are booming. Early iterations of this technology focused on tracking health and fitness routines, but recently some developers have turned their attention to the cultivation of character, basing their conceptual resources on …
Nasir, M.A. Virtue after Foucault: On refuge and integration in Western Europe (2020) European Journal of Political Theory DOI: 10.1177/1474885120964794 Abstract I suggest that virtue ethics can learn from Foucault’s critical observations on biopolitics and governmentality, which identify how a good cannot be disassociated from power and freedom. I chart a way through which virtue …
Foucault Studies, Number 29, 9 April 2021 Special Issue: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Bregham Dalgliesh, Knut Ove Eliassen, Varena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Thomas Götselius, Robert Harvey, Robin Holt, Leonard Richard Lawlor, Daniele Lorenzini, Edward McGushin, Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Giovanni …
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life, Stanford University Press, 2015 In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the …
Tudor, R. Facing adversity together: the biopolitics of the community-focussed recovery policies in post-earthquake Canterbury, New Zealand (2020) Critical Policy Studies DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2020.1842221 Abstract Community building was a feature of the recovery policies implemented to respond to the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. This strategy aimed for survivors to manage the disruption …
Kohrs, K. The language of luxury fashion advertising: technology of the self and spectacle (2020) Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management DOI: 10.1108/JFMM-02-2020-0029 Abstract Purpose: Ubiquitous Internet access and social media make visual consumption possibly the most vital characteristic of the experience economy. A cumulative, integrative framework for the analysis of visual artefacts has thus …
Anthias, P., Hoffmann, K. The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts (2021) Geoforum, 119, pp. 218-226. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.027 Abstract “Ethnic territories” were a central political technology of colonial rule, which also shaped strategies of anti-colonial resistance in diverse contexts. Today, in former colonies, the making of ethnic territories remains a key site of both …
