Dirk Postma, Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective, Journal of Education, No. 61, 2015, 31-52 https://doi.org/10.17159/i61a02 Abstract While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject is …
Foucault 8/13 | François Ewald on Foucault & Neoliberalism Transcribed and edited by Raphaëlle Jean Burns Reviewed and approved by François Ewald [Editors’ Note (Raphaëlle Jean Burns): This is an edited transcription of François Ewald’s talk at Hunter College CUNY on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 204 Roosevelt House, Hunter College. The talk …
Bahar Aykan and Sanem Güvenç-Salgırlı (2015). Responsibilizing individuals, regulating health: debating public spots, risk, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 53, pp 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2015.19 Abstract: Currently, a mass media campaign is underway in Turkey using a new communication means called the “ public spot” (kamu spotu ). This article concentrates on …
Carl Yngfalk, Bio-politicizing consumption: neo-liberal consumerism and disembodiment in the food marketplace (2015) Consumption Markets and Culture, 19(3), 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2015.1102725 Abstract How consumerism proliferates in society is central to consumer culture studies, yet little research has examined the power of consumerist discourses in shaping consumption at the intersection of marketing with State regulation. Drawing on …
Mark Olssen, Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact (2016) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), pp. 129-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1100530 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s elaboration of neoliberalism as a positive form of state power, the ascendancy of neoliberalism in higher education in Britain is examined in terms of the displacement of …
Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds), Foucault and Neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2016 Description Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault …
Gordon Hull, Foucault, Descartes and Monastic Subjectivity, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 07 January 2016 Extracts [,,,] So Descartes is an Augustinian, at least on this point. What I’d like to do here is point out that Foucault further situates Descartes in a traditional Catholic framework of confession. Recall that, in general, On the …
A Foucault News exclusive. Governmentality studies observed Interview with Colin Gordon by Aldo Avellaneda and Guillermo Vega September 2015 Full PDF of article Interviewers’ introduction Colin Gordon is considered one of the key references of what, in a rather generic although recognizable way, has come to be called “governmentality studies”. He has been involved since …
Miguelángel Verde Garrido, Contesting a biopolitics of information and communications: The importance of truth and sousveillance after Snowden, Surveillance and society, Vol 13, No 2 (2015) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i2.5331 Abstract This article aims to provide a novel conceptual understanding of the nature of the global mass surveillance policies and practices revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in collaboration …
Mitchell Dean, Foucault must not be defended, History and Theory, Volume 54, Issue 3, pages 389–403, October 2015 DOI: 10.1111/hith.10767 Available on academia.edu. You need to log in ABSTRACT This paper responds to and comments on many of the themes of the book under consideration concerning Foucault and neoliberalism. In doing so, it offers reflections …
