James Newbery, Space of Discipline and Governmentality: The Singer Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank, in the Twentieth Century (2013) Scottish Geographical Journal, 129 (1), pp. 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2012.738824 Abstract This paper examines work at the Singer factory, Clydebank, in the first half of the twentieth century. It employs a geographical reading of the temporal and spatial strategies …
Matthew Clarke and Barbara Hennig, Motivation as ethical self-formation (2013) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (1), pp. 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2012.715386 Abstract Motivation is a concept more frequently found in venues concerned with educational psychology than in ones concerned with educational philosophy. Under the influence of psychology, and its typically dualistic way of making sense of the world, motivation in education has …
Steven Dorrestijn, Technical Mediation and Subjectivation: Tracing and Extending Foucault’s Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy & Technology, June 2012, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0057-0 Abstract This article focuses on tracing and extending Michel Foucault’s contributions to the philosophy of technology. At first sight his work on power seems the most relevant. In his later …
Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…
Lynne Huffer, Foucault: What could be otherwise (2013) Economic and Political Weekly, 48 (18), pp. 21-23. Abstract A noteworthy conversation that took place in September 1971 between Michel Foucault and Dutch philosopher Fons Elders is to be published for the first time later this year. It reiterates some of the best-known Foucauldian positions on the Enlightenment idea of reason, madness, …
Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willmott, Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality (2013) Organization Studies, 34 (4), pp. 469-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612470256 Abstract This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in …
Campbell, P., Kelly, P. In/Between Feminism and Foucault: Iraqi Women’s War Blogs and Intellectual Practices of the Self (2013) Critical Sociology, 39 (2), pp. 183-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920511431851 Abstract In this article we inquire into the forms of intellectual work that are possible when non-Muslim, non-Arab, western academics (female PhD candidate, male PhD supervisor) seek to work together to analyse the war-blogs …
Niesche, R. Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity (2013) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45 (2), pp. 144-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2013.768968 Abstract Globally, a range of new schooling accountabilities have created a complex and often contradictory context in which school leaders work. For principals of low socio-economic status (SES) and disadvantaged schools, they must balance the …
Spieker, J. Defending the open society: Foucault, Hayek, and the problem of biopolitical order (2013) Economy and Society, 42 (2), pp. 304-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.687929 Abstract The aim of this paper is to throw new light on a previously neglected aspect of Hayek’s political theory. In order to show the significance of Hayek’s evolutionary argument, the paper draws on Foucault’s thesis about …
Qvarsebo, J.U.D. Swedish progressive school politics and the disciplinary regime of the school, 1946-1962: A genealogical perspective(2013) Paedagogica Historica, 49 (2), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2012.725841 Abstract This article examines the vision of the Swedish comprehensive school reform between 1946-1962 as it pertains to the ever-troubling questions of discipline and order in school. Inspired primarily by the work of Michel Foucault and …
