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On minorities and outliers: The case for making Big Data small

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2014
In this essay, I make the case for choosing to examine small subsets of Big Data datasets—making big data small. Big Data allows us to produce summaries of human behavior at a scale never before possible.
Brooke Foucault Welles
doaj   +1 more source

Biopower: Foucault and Beyond

open access: yes, 2015
Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns.
Cisney, Vernon W., Morar, Nicolae
core  

Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book.
Chiara Bassetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualization of Health Nationalism and Glocalization of Health Policy: Barriers and Chances for Global Public Health

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to sort out the meaning of the term “health nationalism,” operationalize this term and analyze this phenomenon in opposition to the cosmopolitan health policy model. Here, health nationalism is treated as a serious obstacle to access to healthcare and a cultural‐ideological barrier to equity in global public health. Two ideal
Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk
wiley   +1 more source

Foucault

open access: yesSlagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 2018
Bognote om D. Heede Det tomme menneske.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Author[’s] Remains: Foucault and the Demise of the “Author-Function” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
At several points throughout his career, Foucault suggests that publishing texts without authors’ names attached would be a useful step towards dismantling what he calls the “author-function:” a social and political role structured according to the way ...
Hendricks, Christina
core   +1 more source

Automated alignment of XFEL nanofocusing mirrors via wavefront optimization

open access: yesJournal of Synchrotron Radiation, EarlyView.
An automated alignment system for nanofocusing Kirkpatrick–Baez mirrors has been developed at SACLA. A wavefront optimization technique routinely provides nanofocused XFEL beams.An automated alignment procedure, based on wavefront measurement with a single‐grating interferometer, has been developed for precise tuning of Kirkpatrick–Baez nanofocusing ...
Jumpei Yamada   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bringing Foucault into Law and Law into Foucault

open access: yesStanford Law Review, 1996
The announced purpose of Alan Hunt and Gary Wickham 's book, Foucault and Law, is "to demonstrate the pertinence of [Michel] Foucault for contemporary issues in legal studies." In this review essay, Hugh Baxter acknowledges the important contributions Hunt and Wickham have made, both in introducing basic Foucaultian concepts to a legal academic ...
Hugh Baxter, Alan Hunt, Gary Wickham
openaire   +3 more sources

Out of the Ordinary: Law, Power, Culture, and the Commonplace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Review of The Common Place of Law: Stories From Everyday Life by Patricia Ewick & Susan S. Silbey (1998). Sometimes a work\u27s intellectual influences reveal both its strengths and its shortcomings.
Mezey, Naomi
core   +1 more source

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

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