Bruno, Fernanda, and Pablo Manolo Rodríguez. “The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies.” Theory, Culture & Society, (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211029356. Abstract This article revisits the concept of the dividual, taking as a starting point Deleuze’s diagnosis about the relevance that dividual practices have gained with the advent of biotechnology and digital culture. Although we agree with …
McDonald, M., Thi Nguyen, L., Bubna-Litic, D., Nguyen, T.-N., Taylor, G. Positive Psychology Applied to the Workplace: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (2021) Journal of Humanistic Psychology DOI: 10.1177/00221678211029400 Abstract An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psychology, however, research has yet to provide a critical analysis of its practical application. …
Wimberly, C. The birth of the post-truth era a genealogy of corporate public relations, propaganda, and Trump (2021) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 35 (2), pp. 130-146. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0130 Open access Abstract In the early twentieth century, the most numerous and well-funded institutions in the United States—corporations—used public relations to make widespread and fundamental changes in …
Newman, S. Power, Freedom and Obedience in Foucault and La Boétie: Voluntary Servitude as the Problem of Government Theory, Culture and Society, (2021). DOI: 10.1177/02632764211024333 Open access Abstract I investigate the contemporary problem of obedience through an exploration of Michel Foucault and Étienne de La Boétie, showing how the former drew on the latter’s concept …
Alphin, C., Debrix, F. Biopolitics in the ‘Psychic Realm’: Han, Foucault and neoliberal psychopolitics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, (2021). DOI: 10.1177/01914537211033011 Abstract This article explores German Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s notion of psychopolitics and his concept of the neoliberal subject. For Han, mental processes are now the primary target of power. This means that, according …
Special section: Miguel De Beistegui, The Government Of Desire: A Genealogy Of The Liberal Subject, Philosophy Today: Volume > 65 > Issue: 4, 2021 Vilde Lid Aavitsland, The “Man of Desire” or the “Man of Labor”?: Comments on Miguel de Beistegui’s The Government of Desire Kevin Thompson, Comments on Miguel De Beistegui’s The Government of …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión (2021) Territorial Control and Subjectivities at Risk: Counter-Conducts for the Intercultural/Developmentalist/Extractivist Dispositive in Chile (1989–2018), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42:5, 610-626, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2021.1971169 ABSTRACT This article examines intercultural discourses in the Mapuche context of the Araucanía region of Chile, based on the material and enunciative conditions which sustain their circulation. These conditions shape …
Telos 196 (Fall 2021): Thinking vs. Doing From David Pan’s introduction […] The dichotomy of thinking versus doing seems to arise out of our own sense of the difference between our minds and our bodies. On the one hand, the gap between mind and body is the basis of the perspective with which the mind …
Giorgi Vachnadze, The Phenomenological Panopticon and the Historical a Priori: Towards a Genealogy of the Transcendental Subject, Epoché, Issue #37 February 2021 A teleological conception of history begins with Hegel and terminates with Foucault. The following text will not concern itself with Hegel and the Hegelian interpretation of history, it will not be an extensive …
Krarup, Troels. “Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought.” Theory, Culture & Society 38, no. 5 (September 2021): 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420984528. Abstract Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ and not simply …
