Confession and political normativity: control of subjectivity and production of the subject [PDF]
The theme of confession, present in the reflection of Michel Foucault since the early 1960s, pursued the same direction of his researches from the late 1970s concerning the problem of government and the studies of governmentality. Under this perspective,
Avelino, Nildo
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Democratization beyond the post-democratic turn: towards a research agenda on new conceptions of citizen participation [PDF]
Following extensive debates about post-democracy and post-politics, scholarly attention has shifted to conceptualizing the ongoing transformation of democracy.
Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Butzlaff, Felix
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Diversity, inequality and a post-structural politics for education [PDF]
This paper considers the contribution to understanding educational inequalities offered by post-structural theories of power and the subject. The paper locates this consideration in the context of the ongoing endeavour in education studies to make sense ...
Youdell, Deborah
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Subjectivation and performative politics—Butler thinking Althusser and Foucault: intelligibility, agency and the raced-nationed-religioned subjects of education [PDF]
Judith Butler is perhaps best known for her take-up of the debate between Derrida and Austin over the function of the performative and her subsequent suggestion that the subject be understood as performatively constituted.
Althusser L. +46 more
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La psychothérapie entre guérison et auto-optimisation : la polyvalence d’une pratique de la prothèse
Aujourd’hui, on parle constamment d’« auto-optimisation ». Souvent, les moyens techniques de se façonner soi-même sont mis en avant – « enhancement » (amélioration), « life logging » et « self tracking » (suivi de la vie et de soi), « quantified self ...
Jürgen Straub
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Digital Subjectivation and Financial Markets: Criticizing Social Studies of Finance with Lazzarato [PDF]
The recently rising field of Critical Data Studies is still facing fundamental questions. Among these is the enigma of digital subjectivation. Who are the subjects of Big Data? A field where this question is particularly pressing is finance.
Christiaens, Tim
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Projectification. Literary Studies as Commodity The article contains a critique of the project form which the humanities at large have embraced during the past few decades.
Anders Johansson
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A Genealogical Analysis of Information and Technics
This paper explores how the concepts of information and technics have been leveraged differently by a variety of philosophical and epistemological frameworks over time. Using the Foucauldian methodology of genealogical historiography, it analyzes how the
J.J. Sylvia IV
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Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender and sexuality constellations are constituted in secondary schools [PDF]
This paper explores the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality through a series of close readings of data generated through an ethnography undertaken in a south London secondary school.
Youdell, Deborah
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O presente artigo procura retomar a mudança de rumo da obra de Foucault que determinou o enfoque sobre a subjetividade, sobretudo nos dois últimos volumes de História da Sexualidade.
Hélio Rebello Cardoso Jr.
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