Sonja K. Pieck, “To be led differently”: Neoliberalism, road construction, and NGO counter-conducts in Peru (2013) Geoforum. Volume 64, 2015, Pages 304-313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.011 Abstract This essay explores how neoliberal governance is being contested, adapted, and engaged by Peruvian NGOs responding to the Interoceanic Highway, a large infrastructure project in southern Peru. The road is an …
Peter-Paul Verbeek, Resistance is futile: Toward a non-modern democratization of technology, (2013) Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 17 (1), pp. 72-92. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20131715 Abstract Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau …
Michalinos Zembylas, Derrida, Foucault and critical pedagogies of friendship in conflict-troubled societies (2013) Discourse. 36(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.812341 Abstract The aim of this paper is to place Derrida’s and Foucault’s ideas on friendship in conversation and then discuss how those ideas provide a pedagogical space in which critical educators in conflict-troubled societies can promote new modes …
Johan Hyrén, Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault: En rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle The English title: An Ethics of Self-creation Beyond Foucault: A Theory of Justice for a Multicultural, Liberal and Democratic Society. This recently submitted thesis is written in Swedish but includes an extensive English summary at the end and can be downloaded …
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Alessandra Renzi and Greg Elmer, The Biopolitics of Sacrifice: Securing Infrastructure at the G20 Summit (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (5), pp. 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412474327 Abstract This article investigates infrastructure spending from a biopolitical perspective and rethinks its connections to emerging regimes of (in)securitization. Starting with a study of the organization and contestation of the …
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Saran Ghatak & Andrew Stuart Abel, Power/Faith: Governmentality, Religion, and Post-Secular Societies (2013) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26 (3), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9141-z Abstract Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and its attending modalities of biopower and disciplinary technologies, provides a useful conceptual schema for the analysis of the role of religious and quasi-religious institutions …
Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Neuro:The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, Princeton University Press, 2013 The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems …
Arthur E. Walzer, Parrēsia, Foucault, and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition (2013) Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 43 (1), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.740130 Abstract In his last seminars, Michel Foucault analyzed parrēsia (frank speech) in classical Greece and Rome, a subject also addressed by classical rhetoricians. Foucault regards parrēsia as an idealized modality of truth telling-unartful, sincere, courageous speech …
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