Robotic Doves Circling over Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, Hans Sluga’s blog […] Our society has developed much further into a surveillance society since Foucault published his book and certainly since Bentham wrote his treatise on the panopticon in the late 18th century. This has not escaped the attention of social scientists and there exists now an …
‘In the Western imagination, reason has long belonged to terra firma. Island or continent, it repels water with a solid stubbornness: it only concedes its sand. As for unreason, it has been aquatic from the depths of time and that until fairly recently. And more precisely oceanic: infinite space, uncertain … Madness is the flowing …
Kerr, R. The role of science in the practice of talent identification: a case study from gymnastics in New Zealand (2018) Sport in Society, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1435032 Abstract Talent identification is an example of a practice where ‘scientism threatens to engulf us all.’ Talent identification and development are areas where models …
CALL FOR PAPERS The nineteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Stonehill College North Easton, MA April 5-7, 2019 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. Paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 words. All submissions should be …
Editor: Foucault is behind Simone de Beauvoir Claude Lanzmann, director of Holocaust film ‘Shoah’, dies at 92. CGTN, 6 July 2018 French filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose landmark 1985 documentary “Shoah” revealed the horrors of the Holocaust over nine hours of chilling eyewitness accounts, died in Paris on Thursday aged 92.
Vegter, M.W. Towards precision medicine; a new biomedical cosmology (2018) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-018-9828-z Abstract Precision Medicine has become a common label for data-intensive and patient-driven biomedical research. Its intended future is reflected in endeavours such as the Precision Medicine Initiative in the USA. This article addresses …
Ralph Lamar Turner & Carol Gassaway (2018) Between kudzu and killer apps: Finding human ground between the monoculture of MOOCs and online mechanisms for learning, Educational Philosophy and Theory,Published online: 07 May 2018 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1465816 Abstract Although MOOCs have not lived up to previously breathless predictions of disruption, they have had an outsized influence on university administrators …
Annie Dorsen, Hello, Hi there Hello Hi There uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist/activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs, designed to mimic human conversations, perform a new – as it were, improvised – …
Matthews, M. Counter hegemony in post-compulsory art and design and gallery education, through Sartre and Foucault (2018) Pedagogy, Culture and Society, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2018.1428220 Abstract Austerity politics in Britain are edging towards compressed learning and teaching identities, driven by competition for resources and normative standards. Policy changes since 2010 have impacted …
from flickr MEDIODESCOCIDO ART DOLLS es una creación del Artista Plástico argentino Uriel Valentín. Se basa en una fusión de Pintura y Diseño con el concepto de Objeto de Arte. Todos los Dolls de aproximadamente 36 cm de altura son pintados y cosidos a mano; y en su interior, poseen un esqueleto de alambre para …
