Michael Peters, Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective, Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001 58 https://ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/EDEQ/article/view/558 Abstract The notion of ‘enterprise culture’ emerged in the United Kingdom as a central motif in political thought under Margaret Thatcher’s administration. The notion represented a profound shift away from the Keynesian …
Ester Bloom, How ‘Treat Yourself’ Became a Capitalist Command. The Atlantic 19 Nov 2015 Corporations love telling Americans they “deserve” fancy electronics and indulgent food. In a 1982 lecture that went on to be published as an essay called “Technologies of the Self,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault argues that looking after oneself, rather than …
S. M. Amadae, From Panopticon to Prisoner’s Dilemma: Neoliberal Subjects as Prisoners of Reason 25th April, 4pm RHB 150, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW In this talk, S. M. Amadae (MIT and University of Helsinki) will explore how the pedagogy of game theory and practice of institutional design generates neoliberal subjects …
Călin COTOI, Neoliberalism: a Foucauldian Perspective, International Review of Social Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2011, 109-124 Full PDF Abstract: The contemporary investigations on power, politics, government and knowledge are profoundly influenced by Foucault’s work. Governmentality, as a specific way of seeing the connections between the formation of subjectivities and population politics, has been …
Stephen Legg, Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s, Environment and Planning D, February 25, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816633474 Abstract In this article, I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course (On the Will to Know, 1970–1971) and his first course after his two ‘governmentality’ lectures (On the Government of the Living, …
Jeffrey Vagle, Surveillance Is Still About Power, Just Security, February 9, 2016 Since the Snowden revelations in 2013, surveillance has gone from a somewhat arcane term of art used mainly by scholars, spies, and tinfoil hat types, to a household word that now comes up in conversations on such far ranging topics as national security, …
Delphine Merx, S’écrire soi-même, Implications philosophiques Open access article Résumé Résumé : La notion de « subjectivation » interroge ce processus qui, d’un sujet malléable et à déterminer, fait surgir une certaine constitution du soi, et les moyens de cette formation. Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault se sont chacun à leur tour penchés sur cette …
Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …
Harriet Pattison, How to Desire Differently: Home Education as a Heterotopia, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 49, Issue 4, pages 619–637, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12130 Abstract This article explores the co-existence of, and relationship between, alternative education in the form of home education and mainstream schooling. Home education is conceptually subordinate to schooling, relying …
Quel est l’héritage de Michel Foucault? Sophie Joubert, Avec Frédéric Gros, philosophe, professeur à Sciences Po, coordinateur de la Pléiade Michel Foucault, Radio France Information, Diffusion : vendredi 8 janvier 2016 Podcast Impossible de parler de la folie, de la prison ou de l’histoire de la sexualité sans citer le nom de Michel Foucault. Il …
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