Hofmeyr, B. Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital (2022) Acta Academica, 54 (1), pp. 40-68. DOI: 10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/3 Abstract The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become …
Villadsen, K. Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs (2022) European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/13684310221125350 Abstract A steady stream of commentary criticizes Foucault’s ‘agentless position’ for its inability to observe, much less theorize, the ways in which human actors manoeuvre, negotiate, transform or resist the structures within which they are …
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …
Michael C. Behrent (2022) A Case for the Young Foucault, Critical Review, DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2152253 ABSTRACT Between 1949 and 1961 (or, arguably, 1966), three interconnected dimensions of Foucault’s early thought emerged. First, the young Foucault offered a Hegelian perspective on Kant’s notion of the transcendental. The a priori conditions of thought, Foucault suggested, both shape and …
Piasentier, M. Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science (2022) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/01914537221131944 Abstract Foucault and Sellars are representatives of conflicting philosophical traditions: whereas Foucault famously insisted that “power is everywhere,” Sellars proposed the well-known scientia mensura dictum. The tension between the two perspectives seems to be so strong that …
Friedman, A.C., Mills, J.P., Gearity, B. Natural science and culture grapple on the mat: an autoethnography of a wrestler’s rapid weight loss (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2111491 Abstract Jean-Francois Lyotard’s iconic essay, The Post-modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1978) detailed the shifting nature of knowledge in post-industrial society that meant sciences had to …
Gaughwin, M. “The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects (2022) Design and Culture DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2122115 Abstract The contribution Michel Foucault’s thoughts on power, in particular his ideas of subjectivity, freedom, and action, might have to the study of design’s ontological shaping of people is an emerging field of inquiry in …
Herzog, B., Lance Porfillio, A. Talking with racists: insights from discourse and communication studies on the containment of far-right movements (2022) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01406-y Abstract The rise of the far right is threatening the antifascist consensus that helped rebuild Europe and the world following World War II. Discourse studies …
Magwa, L., Mohangi, K. Using theoretical frameworks to analyze democratic student–teacher engagement and autonomous learning for academic achievement in Zimbabwe (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 925478 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.925478 Abstract Positive student–teacher engagement that fosters independent and supported learning is the fulcrum for academic success. This paper investigates stakeholder opinions on the intrinsic importance …
Beyribey, T. Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s (2022) European Journal of International Relations DOI: 10.1177/13540661221131432 Abstract In critical terrorism analysis, (counter-)terrorism is thought to be a discursive formation of power/knowledge comprised of some security experts from governments, the media, and academics. However, this one-sided …
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