Jordan, T. A genealogy of hacking (2017) Convergence, 23 (5), pp. 528-544. DOI: 10.1177/1354856516640710 Abstract Hacking is now a widely discussed and known phenomenon, but remains difficult to define and empirically identify because it has come to refer to many different, sometimes incompatible, material practices. This article proposes genealogy as a framework for understanding hacking …
Vappereau, M. (2014). Les Carnets de René Allio : une nécessaire publication. Sociétés & Représentations, 37,(1), 179-193. doi:10.3917/sr.037.0179. Les événements de la fin de l’année 2013, depuis le colloque de novembre à l’INHA jusqu’à l’exposition au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, permirent de faire redécouvrir René Allio, peintre, scénographe et cinéaste du second xxe siècle, et …
Willmott, K. (2017). Taxpayer governmentality: governing government in Metro Vancouver’s transit tax debate. Economy and Society, Pages 255-274 | Published online: 25 Aug 2017 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2017.1359441 Abstract In a 2015 plebiscite, voters in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia rejected a proposed sales tax dedicated to funding a regional transportation plan. Opposition was spearheaded by a taxpayer …
Lev Marder, Rethinking homo economicus in the political sphere. Constellations, 31 August 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12295 Abstract: Homo-economicus, this rational cost-benefit calculating interest-pursuing subject, in political analysis usually stands for the ordinary citizen little interested in unprofitable political knowledge. This subject appears as an obstacle to democratic governance, but it does not have to appear as such. …
Jane Perryman, Meg Maguire, Annette Braun, Stephen Ball, (2017). Surveillance, Governmentality and moving the goalposts: The influence of Ofsted on the work of schools in a post-panoptic era. British Journal of Educational Studies, September 2017, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2017.1372560 ABSTRACT This paper asks the question: to what extent do inspection regimes, particularly the Office for Standards in …
Deranty, J.-P., Dunstall, A. Doing justice to the past: Critical theory and the problems of historicism (2017) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43 (8), pp. 812-836. DOI: 10.1177/0191453716685757 Abstract In this article, we argue that the usual restriction of critical theory to ‘modern’ norms is subject to problems of coherence, historical accuracy and moral obligation. First, …
Todorof, Maria Borisof, Foucault and the Poster-Child for Conformism or the Cost of Identity in the Same-Sex Marriage Context (August 21, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2364097 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2364097 Open access Also on academia.edu Abstract The paper discusses the reconciliation between state and same-sex marriage which it is suggested could be seen as employment of a …
Allain, K.A., Marshall, B. Foucault retires to the gym: Understanding embodied aging in the third age (2017) Canadian Journal on Aging, 36 (3), pp. 402-414. DOI: 10.1017/S0714980817000216 Abstract In light of recent social pressures leading to a reimagining of the “Third Age” as a time of constant activity rather than repose and relaxation, this article …
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: Critical Histories of the Present, September 2017, Volume 55, Issue Supplement S1. Pages 1–209 Editor’s Introduction: Critical Histories of the Present (pages 5–6) Verena Erlenbusch Overcoming “The Present Limits of the Necessary”: Foucault’s Conception of a Critique (pages 7–24) Tuomo Tiisala Comments on Tuomo Tiisala, “Overcoming ‘The Present …
Allen, A. Psychoanalysis and ethnology revisited: Foucault’s historicization of history (2017) Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55, pp. 31-46. DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12229 Abstract This article re-examines the closing sections of Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things in order to address the longstanding question of whether he is best understood as a philosopher or a historian. My central …
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