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The pleasures of learning at work : Foucault and phenomenology compared [PDF]
, 2007 This paper provides a comparative account of two conceptualisations of pleasure. The first draws on Foucault's analysis of bio-power. The second provides a phenomenological account where pleasure is viewed as an aspect of our immediate consciousness ...
Hughes, Christina
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Revue de la Régulation, 2014 This thesis examines the exercise of power and its transformations, based on the observation of concrete operations of macroeconomic management in two African countries, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, and one Caribbean territory, Guadeloupe.
Boris Samuel
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Voices in Bioethics, 2022 Photo by Karl Raymund Catabas on Unsplash “After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries – a tremendous, gruesome shadow.
Ryan Lam
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The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity [PDF]
, 2011 The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more
Till, C
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Revue de la Régulation, 2018 Based on mixed methods, this thesis investigates the social construction of prison statistics. It contributes to econometrics in terms of recidivism behaviors, but also to the sociology of quantification and more broadly to law sociology and economics ...
Anaïs Henneguelle
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Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic
Big Data & Society, 2020 Quantification is particularly seductive in times of global uncertainty. Not surprisingly, numbers, indicators, categorizations, and comparisons are central to governmental and popular response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stefania Milan
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Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments
International Review of Public Policy, 2020 The article addresses the production of indicators as policy instruments in European public policy. It discusses the relevant literature on sociology of quantification and European public policy and applies this theoretical framework to the case of ...
Bartolomeo Cappellina
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Mass personalization: Predictive marketing algorithms and the reshaping of consumer knowledge
Big Data & Society, 2020 This paper focuses on the conception and use of machine-learning algorithms for marketing. In the last years, specialized service providers as well as in-house data scientists have been increasingly using machine learning to predict consumer behavior for
Baptiste Kotras
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Weber and Coyote : polytheism as a practical attitude [PDF]
, 2018 This document is the Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. Under embargo until 9 September 2018.
Larvor, Brendan
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Scaling Up Bibliographic Data Science
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2019 Bibliographic data science is an emerging research paradigm in digital humanities. It aims at systematic quantification of the trends in knowledge production based on large-scale analysis of bibliographic metadata collections and the methods of modern ...
Mikko Tolonen +3 more
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