Villadsen, Kaspar Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology: does Gestell ‘correspond perfectly’ to dispositif? (2024) Journal of Political Power DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2024.2390408 Abstract This article compares Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology, taking its clue from Agamben’s claim that Gestell and dispositif are ‘perfectly corresponding’ concepts. So far, however, the task of a detailed comparison of …
Civitarese, G., Distel, E. “Thus far and no further”: Inquiry into a dreamless society (2024) International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies DOI: 10.1002/aps.1889 Abstract Humans are highly social primates who naturally seek out groups in which to live. Our individual psychology is inherently intertwined with that of the group, forming an inextricable link between the …
Davoudi, S., Schoneboom, A., Díaz-Aldret, A. Counter-Conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Popup Civic Actions in Mexico (2024) Global Society DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2387010 Abstract This paper draws on Foucault’s concept of counter-conduct to move beyond the binary understandings of civil society and social movement. Using illustrative examples of popup civic actions in the aftermath of a flooding …
Vaseková, V., Müller, M., Kročil, O. Acting like Living in a Panopticon? Hong Kong Social entrepreneurs’ Perceptions of Risks and Vulnerabilities (2024) Journal of Social Entrepreneurship DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2024.2388042 Abstract Hong Kong faces significant business and social uncertainty, which affects social entrepreneurs’ perceptions of risks and vulnerabilities. This study examines their narratives, taking into account the …
Krupar, S., Ehlers, N. The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity (2024) Science Technology and Human Values DOI: 10.1177/01622439241265641 Abstract Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We …
Bernard Harcourt, On critical genealogy. Contemporary Political Theory (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00715-y Open access Abstract Today most critical theorists who deploy history use a genealogical method forged by Nietzsche and Foucault. This genealogical approach now dominates historically inflected critique. But not all genealogical writings today, nor all philosophical debates surrounding genealogy, advance the goals of critical philosophy. …
Foucault Studies Number 36: Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. Special Issue: Foucault’s Legacy on Contemporary Thinking Introduction: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) Valentina Antoniol, Stefano Marino On Foucault’s Legacy: Governmentality, Critique and Subjectivation as Conceptual Tools for Understanding Neoliberalism André …
Vervoort, T. How Does Neoliberalism Form Our Lifes? A Praxeological Approach with Jaeggi and Foucault (2024) Critical Horizons DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2024.2390335 Abstract Michel Foucault’s work has immensely enriched the way critical social theorists understand power. Beyond his work on disciplinary normalisation, Foucault’s genealogy of the modern state has discussed governmental power as the conduct of conduct …
Christopher O’Neill, Foucault And Information Theory: On “Message Or Noise?”, Parrhesia , 39 · 2024 · (1966)1-17 Extract “Message or Noise?” is a short but highly suggestive essay, in which Michel Foucault takes up the question of medical thought and practice through the frame of information-theory – one of the few occasions throughout his enormous …
William Tilleczek, Between Authority and Care, Plato’s Crito as Defense of the Philosophical Life, Dionysius, Vol. 39 (2024) Abstract This paper addresses the question as to why Socrates stays to die in prison through a novel reading of the Crito oriented by the Foucaultian notion of care (epimeleia). It argues that the Laws do not …
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