CFP: Social Epistemology & Technology: Toward Increasing Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation Editors note: Papers from a foucauldian perspective are invited. Summary This edited volume seeks to bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss the social effects of technological mediation, focusing on the normative social dimensions effected by technological mediation of knowledge or the …
Peter C. O’Brien, Performance Government: Activating and regulating the self-governing capacities of teachers and school leaders, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online: 04 Jul 2014 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.930682 Abstract This article analyses ‘performance government’ as an emergent form of rule in advanced liberal democracies. It discloses how teachers and school leaders in Australia are being governed …
Emily Horne and Tim Maly, The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, Coach House Books, September 2014. Further info Note also: Sept 21 | Emily Horne & The Inspection House at Word on the Street – Toronto In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring …
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Some of Foucault’s collaborative projects are well-known – the I, Pierre Rivière collection; the Herculine Barbin memoir; Le désordre des familles with Arlette Farge; and the posthumous Technologies of the Self volume from the seminar at the University of Vermont. On a dedicated page on this site I have listed…
Silcock, M., Hocking, C., Payne, D. Childhood constructions of contemporary technology: Using discourse analysis to understand the creation of occupational possibilities (2014) Journal of Occupational Science, 21 (3), pp. 357-370. Abstract Ten children aged 10-12 years were audio recorded discussing and demonstrating the types of technology they regularly used at home. A critical discourse analysis …
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After what has felt like a long break from working on this book, I’ve begun writing again. Some of this was during a recent trip to Ghana. The first part of Chapter Six looks at the collaborative projects Foucault was involved with through his Collège de France seminars and his involvement…
The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning – The Courage of Truth -Part I Opening Lecture by Prof. Michael Dillon, 25 Sept. 2013 The Groningen Lectures on Modes of Reasoning are a space for world leading intellectuals to reflect on historical and contemporary modes of reasoning order and power. Speakers are invited to address the …
With thanks to Eugene Wolter’s post on Critical Theory for his post on this. Edward Said, My Encounter with Sartre, London Review of Books, Vol. 22 No. 11 · 1 June 2000 It was early in January 1979, and I was at home in New York preparing for one of my classes. The doorbell announced …
Língua(gens) em Discurso – A Formação dos Objetos Organizadoras: Ismara Tasso e Érica Danielle Silva Editora: Pontes Coleção Linguagem&Sociedade (v. 7) Ano de publicação: 2014. Com o objetivo de subsidiar teórica e metodologicamente pesquisadores e estudiosos do campo epistemológico do discurso, esta coletânea reúne, com singular empenho dos autores, inéditas e substanciais discussões e reflexões …
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Lecture of 21st February, 1973 Part One (of my summary and comments, the lecture was delivered as a unified entity) In the early nineteenth century, the penal system became a penitentiary system for the first time, was more unified, and was much more under the control of the state than before.…
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