Mark Kelly DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 17 September, 3.30pm-5.00pm PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus] http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown All welcome ABSTRACT: In this paper, I critically assess Gilles Deleuze’s ‘societies of control’ thesis, in relation to both the work of Michel Foucault which inspired it, and the work …
Peter C. O’Brien, Performance Government: Activating and regulating the self-governing capacities of teachers and school leaders, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online: 04 Jul 2014 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.930682 Abstract This article analyses ‘performance government’ as an emergent form of rule in advanced liberal democracies. It discloses how teachers and school leaders in Australia are being governed …
Robin James, Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault, & the Biopolitics of Uncool, Culture, Theory, and Critique 52 (2):138-158 (2014) Further info Abstract Is it even possible to resist or oppose neoliberalism? I consider two responses that translate musical practices into counter-hegemonic political strategies: Jacques Attali’s theory of “composition” and the biopolitics of “uncool.” Reading Jacques Attali’s …
Anthony Alessandrini, Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions, Jadaliyya, April 01 2014 [This article is the final in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first and second installments here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France” by Diren Valayden and “Justifications of Power”: …
Muriam Haleh Davis, ‘Justifications of Power’: Neoliberalism and the Role of Empire, Jadaliyya, March 25, 2014 This article is the second in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first installment here: “The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France“ by Diren …
Diren Valayden, The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in Francem Jadaliyya, Mar 17 2014 [This article is the first in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault’s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa.] “For with Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt processes were set in motion between East and …
Harcourt, Bernard E., Digital Security in the Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Neoliberal Age of Big Data (2014). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-404; APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2455223 and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2455223## Abstract: In 1827, Nicolaus Heinrich Julius, a professor at the University of Berlin, identified an important …
Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Working Group | Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics Lectures and Beyond Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley & William Callison, Political Science, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley 17 September, 2014, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Further info The opening session of …
Foucault’s freedom, Johanna Oksala interviewed by Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine, Friday, August 1st, 2014. Update October 2025: Link above to archived page on the Internet archive Wayback Machine Johanna Oksala is a political philosopher who broods on Foucault, thinks that it’s time people stopped thinking in terms of continental vs analytic, thinks about Foucault and …
Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism: Nick Gane’s response to Will Davies, Theory, Culture and Society, May 28, 2014 In 1971, Michel Foucault wrote a short polemic, entitled ‘Monstrosities in Criticism’, that took issue with reviews of Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things that had been published by Jean-Marc Pelorson and George Steiner. Foucault opened …
