Weiskopf, R. Dis/organising visibilities: Governmentalisation and counter-transparency (2023) Organization, 30 (2), pp. 326-344. DOI: 10.1177/1350508421995751 Abstract This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like …
Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life – An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach See Seminar Program “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach” is an Exploratory Project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Context Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as …
Call for Papers Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies The Journal of the Philosophy of History Click on the Call for papers menu item The Journal of the Philosophy of History plans a special issue to explore Arendt and Foucault’s approaches to historical method (broadly conceived) and intellectual history, and, …
Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University of Chicago Press Forthcoming late 2023, early 2024 This volume is part of The Chicago Foucault Project Description (adapted from …
Stephen J. Ball, The Enemies of Truth (novel). Independently published, March 2023 Staverley is in Paris. He is teaching, walking the city and searching for a missing student. Back in Watermouth his colleagues are being blackmailed and threatened. In both places there are mysteries to be solved and Staverley cannot stop himself from getting involved. …
Special Issue: Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, March 2023 Open access Kaspar Villadsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Johannes Lundberg (Århus University) have guest-edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability with the title: “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability”. The Special Issue eplores themes like the ESG discourse, Green Transition, CSR, …
François Cusset (French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention, Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, June 8 2022 If French Theory is American, it is so in the sense of being an errant concept, caught up in a continuous process of blurring, relocation, and deconstruction. The story of my own book, French Theory, bears witness to this …
Lee H., Lee T. The TraceTogether Matrix Has You – Surveillance, Rationalisation and Tactics of Governance in Singapore’s COVID-19 App (2022) Platform, 9.2 (Special Issue), pp. 77 – 91 Open access ABSTRACT: In the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore rolled out TraceTogether; a contact-tracing mobile app that uses proximity sensing to track the movements …
Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …
Carol Carpenter, Power in Conservation. Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern …
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