Weinreich, Spencer J. “Panopticon, Inc.: Jeremy Bentham, Contract Management, and (Neo)Liberal Penality.” Punishment & Society, (July 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211023457. Abstract This essay revisits Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, perhaps the foundational figure of the study of the prison, to recover a dimension of the project wholly omitted in Michel Foucault’s canonical reading in Discipline and Punish. Nowhere does …
Kovačević, V., Malenica, K. Heterotopia and Postmodern Community in the Context of Migration and Relationship Towards Migrants (2021) Italian Sociological Review, 11 (1), pp. 63-86. DOI: 10.13136/isr.v11i1.415 Abstract This work approaches the issue of migration of the Arab population to Europe within the idea of postmodern community and the concept of heterotopia. The social and …
Oxana Timofeeva Rathole: Beyond the Rituals of Handwashing, e-flux, #119 – June 2021 In the spring of 2020, when the World Health Organization formally announced the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and governments began introducing new restrictions, some philosophers looked to Michel Foucault, who created tools for analyzing mass disease in relation to discourses and …
Diaz-Bone, R. Economics of convention meets Canguilhem (2021) Historical Social Research, 46 (1), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.285-311 Abstract »Economics of Convention Meets Canguilhem«. The neopragmatist institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC) still is in need of a conception of health that enables EC to work out a critical standpoint in the analysis …
Palacios, C. A truly invisible hand: The critical value of Foucauldian irony (2021) Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (1), pp. 48-72. DOI: 10.1215/26410478-8855219 Open access Abstract Critical theory has long resisted the notion that an “invisible hand” can operate within the real social dynamics of a free market. But despite the most …
Bandiera, R. Marx, Foucault, and state–corporate harm: a case study of regulatory failure in Australian non-prescription medicine regulation (2021) Crime, Law and Social Change DOI: 10.1007/s10611-021-09953-2 Abstract Risk-based regulation has underpinned Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation for over three decades. However, data consistently demonstrate high rates of non-compliance among non-prescription medicine sponsors, with most …
Joynt, C., Rosskama, J. Toward a trans method, or reciprocity as a way of life (2021) Feminist Media Histories, 7 (1), pp. 11-20. DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.11 Abstract It is reductive yet accurate to assert that Chase Joynt and Jules Rosskam first met because they are both trans people who make documentary films. While the alignment of …
van der Drift, M. Management and rights amidst plural worlds (2021) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 35 (1), pp. 93-115. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.1.0093 Abstract Sylvia Wynter discusses Eurocentric thought as a closed cognitive order. In this article, Mijke van der Drift interrogates this cognitive closure as a style of thought that is intertwined with institutions. By inverting …
Foucault Studies, Number 30, June 2021 Articles Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friendship in Foucault Liesbeth Schoonheim Avowing Unemployment: Confessional Jobseeker Interviews and Professional CVs Tom Boland The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology Hannah Lyn Venable Book Reviews Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State …
Davis, D.S., Buffa, D., Rasolondrainy, T., Creswell, E., Anyanwu, C., Ibirogba, A., Randolph, C., Ouarghidi, A., Phelps, L.N., Lahiniriko, F., Chrisostome, Z.M., Manahira, G., Douglass, K. The aerial panopticon and the ethics of archaeological remote sensing in sacred cultural spaces (2021) Archaeological Prospection DOI: 10.1002/arp.1819 Abstract Remote sensing technology has become a standard tool for …
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