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  1. An outline of ethics on the work of Michel Foucault

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    Christensen, Gerd

    An outline of ethics on the work of Michel Foucault The French philosopher Michel Foucault is well known for his critical thinking and for his genealogies of the human subject. In these analyzes power and knowledge (power-knowledge) plays a decisive role. For Foucault power-knowledge is the very...... (Kelly (edt.) 1994). Nevertheless, Foucault ended his academic career discussing ethics in the form of ethos (Foucault 1994). In this form his ethical project approaches an aesthetic project in the form of the individual’s self-creation. In my presentation I will introduce Foucault’s concept of ethos...... and discuss the possibilities and limitations in this position. In addition, I will argue that his insistently critical stance and power-knowledge concept can be considered as an ethical stance different from both deontology and utilitarism. As such, it could have an important impact on the practice...

  2. [Michel Foucault and the persistence of psychiatric power].

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    Caponi, Sandra

    2009-01-01

    This article aims studying the course held by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France in 1973-1974. The records of this course were published in 2003 under the name ' Psychiatric power' . The objective was to compare the different ways in which Foucault analyzes the question of madness in ' Psychiatric power' and in ' History of Madness in the Classical Age' (1961). It is a comparative study about the different ways of analyzing madness developed by Michel Foucault during the archeological and genealogic periods of his work. The absence of the body; binary diagnosis; the description of the surface of symptoms; the classification of diseases more similar to the botanical classification than to pathology; the process of cure directly linked to restitution of behaviors and moral values; as well as the over-power of the psychiatrist, seem to speak about the persistence of an old model of power, a pre-modern and pre-capitalist model, a residue of the old sovereign power.

  3. Poder y resistencia en Michel Foucault

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    Reinaldo Giraldo Díaz

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se analizan los conceptos de poder y resistencia en las obras del período genealógico de Michel Foucault, es decir, después de El orden del discurso, texto programático y hasta el primer volumen de Historia de la Sexualidad. La voluntad de saber. El artículo realiza sobre todo una elaboración de las concepciones de Foucault sobre el poder y la resistencia en las sociedades disciplinarias y en las sociedades de control. Contrario a lo que sostienen los críticos de Foucault, en este artículo se considera que la resistencia no es negativa, ni reactiva. Nuestra hipótesis de trabajo es que para el pensador francés la resistencia es creativa, productiva y anterior al poder.

  4. Cui prodest Michel Foucault?

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    Yurij Castelfranchi

    2006-03-01

    Full Text Available Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral, partial and local (and not universal and non-historic, active (and not merely transmissive face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search – almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail – for the “best practices” in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and “regimes of truth”, on the other the concept of biopower (a “power over bodies”, enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication.

  5. Poder disciplinario y capitalismo en Michel Foucault

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    Mauro Benente

    2017-07-01

    Full Text Available Establishing a relationship between the studies of Karl Marx and the research of Michel Foucault is not an easy task. There are readings describing the differences; others might emphasize the similarities while some others criticize Foucault’s developments from a Marxist perspective. In my present work I try to clarify the linkage between the disciplinary power and capitalism of Michel Foucault’s work within the context of the above-mentioned complexities. According to my proposed reading, capitalism does not explain the emergence of the disciplinary power, even if the production and accumulation of capital have applied disciplinary technics.

  6. Medical education... meet Michel Foucault.

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    Hodges, Brian D; Martimianakis, Maria A; McNaughton, Nancy; Whitehead, Cynthia

    2014-06-01

    There have been repeated calls for the greater use of conceptual frameworks and of theory in medical education. Although it is familiar to few medical educators, Michel Foucault's work is a helpful theoretical and methodological source. This article explores what it means to use a 'Foucauldian approach', presents a sample of Foucault's historical-genealogical studies that are relevant to medical education, and introduces the work of four researchers currently undertaking Foucauldian-inspired medical education research. Although they are not without controversy, Foucauldian approaches are employed by an increasing number of scholars and are helpful in shedding light on what it is possible to think, say and be in medical education. Our hope in sharing this Foucauldian work and perspective is that we might stimulate a dialogue that is forward-looking and optimistic about the possibilities for change in medical education. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  7. Verdade e diferença no pensamento de Michel Foucault

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    Cesar Candiotto

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available O presente artigo versará sobre as articulações entre verdade e história no pensamento de Michel Foucault, e seu distanciamento da concepção originária e universalista de verdade. Acontecimento e diferença constituem conceitos decisivos para situar sua demarcação no domínio de estudo das ciências humanas, especialmente em seu primeiro grande livro, História da loucura na idade clássica.The paper deals with the articulation between truth and history in Michel Foucault's thought, and their separation from the originary and universal concept of truth. Event and difference constitute decisive concepts to situate his demarcation in the study domains of human sciences, especially in his first great book Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

  8. [The birth of acknowledgement: Michel Foucault and Werner Leibbrand].

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    Mildenberger, Florian

    2006-01-01

    In 1964, Werner Leibbrand (1896-1974) was the first German medical historian to present, in Sudhoffs Archiv, a review of the work of Michel Foucault (1926-1984). This paper examines some of the reasons leading to the fact that Leibbrand's own generation refused to acknowledge the importance of Foucault's ideas, while, later on, younger German medical historians, although impressed with Foucault's writings, failed to acknowledge, first, the close relationship between Leibbrand's and Foucault's world views, and, second, Leibbrand's attempts at introducing Foucault to German medical historians. Leibbrand with his Jewish wife had survived the Nazi period partly in hiding. His attempts at clearing post-war German psychiatry and medical historiography of NS-sympathizers isolated him among his colleagues, many of whom had begun their career during the Third Reich. Leibbrand enjoyed the support by the Swiss medical historian and avowed Communist Erwin Ackerknecht (1906-1988), but later turned against him, possibly because Acknerknecht had called Leibbrand's writings "unscientific". Leibbrand was unable to overcome his antagonisms with his contemporaries. At the same time, opposition to Ackerknecht made him appear a respresentative of the past in the eyes of the younger generation. Thus, when Foucault was accepted by the latter, they were not prepared to examine the work of Leibbrand and realize how close some of the ideas developed by Leibbrand and Foucault had been.

  9. The Product of Text and "Other" Statements: Discourse Analysis and the Critical Use of Foucault

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    Graham, Linda J.

    2011-01-01

    Much has been written on Michel Foucault's reluctance to clearly delineate a research method, particularly with respect to genealogy (Harwood, 2000; Meadmore, Hatcher & McWilliam, 2000; Tamboukou, 1999). Foucault (1994, p. 288) himself disliked prescription stating, "I take care not to dictate how things should be" and wrote provocatively to…

  10. Problematizing the "Taken for Granted" in Educational Issues: Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault.

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    Qi, Jie

    This paper explores how educators would raise different questions about educational issues by using Karl Marx's framework, Antonio Gramsci's conception, and Michel Foucault's notions, respectively. First, the paper compares the historical perspectives of Marx and Foucault. Marx concludes that history is a progressive linear production and that…

  11. Poder y subjetividad en Michel Foucault: traslaciones, modificaciones, ambivalencias

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    Lorena Acosta Iglesias

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available The goal of this article is to measure the translations, modifications and ambivalences of the relationship between power and subjectivity in two land-marks of the philosophical production of Michel Foucault: Discipline and punish (1975, and The birth of biopolitics (1978-79. In this way, we will try to extract the foucaultian procedure some clues to a current materialistic approach of this relation at a time of maximum social dissolution.

  12. Justice vs. Power in reviewing by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault

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    Šuvaković Uroš V.

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper is a review of the debate led by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault in 1971. The debate was referred to both the principles of human knowledge and the need for political engagement of intellectuals led by the principle 'justice against the power', which is also the title of the transcript of this discussion published in Serbian in 2011. .

  13. The production of the psychiatric subject: power, knowledge and Michel Foucault.

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    Roberts, Marc

    2005-01-01

    The issue of power has become increasingly important within psychiatry, psychotherapy and mental health nursing generally. This paper will suggest that the work of Michel Foucault, the French philosopher and historian, has much to contribute to the discussion about the nature, existence and exercise of power within contemporary mental health care. As well as examining his original and challenging account of power, Foucault's emphasis on the intimate relationship between power and knowledge will be explored within the context of psychiatry and mental health nursing. This is to say that the paper will investigate Foucault's account of how power and knowledge are central to the process by which human beings are 'made subjects' and therefore how 'psychiatric identities' are produced. In doing so, it will be suggested that Foucault's work can not only make a valuable contribution to contemporary discussions about power and knowledge, but can also provide a significant critique and reconceptualization of the theoretical foundations and associated diagnostic and therapeutic practices of psychiatry and mental health nursing.

  14. Michel Foucault et Paul Ricœur, vers un dialogue possible

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    Simon Castonguay

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Il est désormais connu que Michel Foucault s’est intéressé à la fin de sa vie à l’ ”herméneutique du sujet.” Mais cette histoire de la constitution du sujet (ou de la subjectivité fait étrangement l’économie d’une réflexion sur le rôle de la compréhension, alors que Foucault qualifie son travail d’ ”ontologie historique de nous-mêmes.” C'est sur ce point précis qu’est ici mis à l'épreuve le caractère médiateur de l’œuvre de Paul Ricœur, dont l’herméneutique du soi prend en charge une ontologie de la compréhension. Suite à ces considérations, la seconde partie de l’article cherche à démontrer que la théorie de l’agir de Ricœur peut favoriser le passage d’une reconnaissance de type objectale à une reconnaissance des capacités du sujet à se tenir pour responsable. Ce passage sera opéré directement sur le modèle d’analyse du “dernier Foucault,” c’est-à-dire son concept-clé de “processus de subjectivation.”In his later work, Michel Foucault manifested a strong interest for the “hermeneutics of the subject.” Yet this history of the constitution of the subject (or subjectivity does without any reflection on the role of understanding, even though Foucault characterizes his project as a historical ontology of ourselves. The power of mediation emphasized in the work of Paul Ricœur may help us redefine an ontology of understanding through a hermeneutics of the self. Following this, the second part of the article aims to show that Ricœur’s theory of action can facilitate a transition from the recognition of the self, first described as “objectivation,” to a recognition of the subject’s capacity to be held responsible. This passage will draw on the model of analysis in the later Foucault, specifically, on his key concept of the subjectivation process. 

  15. “A UTOPIA DE UM CORPO INCORPÓREO”: corpo, poder e saber em Michel de Foucault

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    Assis Daniel Gomes

    2016-12-01

    En este trabajo se reflexiona, de manera bien introductoria, acerca de algunas preocupaciones planteadas por Michel Foucault, en especial lo que él llama disciplinalization y utopía del cuerpo. Deducimos que estos están influenciados por la filosofía post-sartreana, participan las afecciones resultantes a partir de mayo de 1968 y un retorno a la filosofía de Nietzsche. Este filósofo de la transgresión en tela de juicio los supuestos hasta ahora planteados por la filosofía perspectiva marxista, vinculadas al concepto de lucha de clases y militante función intelectual (Sartre, que pensar en el cuerpo y el poder. Por último, Foucault refleja cómo construir cierta sociedad disciplinaria, según las convenciones dadas paraliza el cuerpo, inventa y dominado por ciertos intereses permeadas por relaciones de micro-poder. Palabras clave: Cuerpo; El Poder-saber; Michel Foucault.

  16. El concepto de heterotopía en Michel Foucault

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    María Cristina Toro Zambrano

    2018-02-01

    Full Text Available El análisis del concepto de heterotopía, explicado por Michel Foucault en su conferencia “Los espacios otros”, tiene importancia dentro del proyecto general de una historia crítica del pensamiento. Las heterotopías pertenecen a un tipo específico de espacio, que tiene dentro de sí poderes, fuerzas, ideas, regularidades o discontinuidades, se pueden clasificar según el tiempo o el lugar al que pertenecen y abren la posibilidad de crear nuevos espacios con sus propias lógicas.

  17. [A non-classical approach to medical practices: Michel Foucault and Actor-Network Theory].

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    Bińczyk, E

    2001-01-01

    The text presents an analysis of medical practices stemming from two sources: Michel Foucault's conception and the research of Annemarie Mol and John Law, representatives of a trend known as Actor-Network Theory. Both approaches reveal significant theoretical kinship: they can be successfully consigned to the framework of non-classical sociology of science. I initially refer to the cited conceptions as a version of non-classical sociology of medicine. The identity of non-classical sociology of medicine hinges on the fact that it undermines the possibility of objective definitions of disease, health and body. These are rather approached as variable social and historical phenomena, co-constituted by medical practices. To both Foucault and Mol the main object of interest was not medicine as such, but rather the network of medical practices. Mol and Law sketch a new theoretical perspective for the analysis of medical practices. They attempt to go beyond the dichotomous scheme of thinking about the human body as an object of medical research and the subject of private experience. Research on patients suffering blood-sugar deficiency provide the empirical background for the thesis of Actor-Network Theory representatives. Michel Foucault's conceptions are extremely critical of medical practices. The French researcher describes the processes of 'medicalising' Western society as the emergence of a new type of power. He attempts to sensitise the reader to the ethical dimension of the processes of medicalising society.

  18. R. Lenoir and J.-J. Yvorel, (eds.) : Michel Foucault. Surveiller et punir : la prison vingt ans après

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    Dinges, Martin

    2009-01-01

    In the English speaking world there is no lack of books or collections of essays somehow related to the work of Michel Foucault. One only has to consider the enormous flow of publications on « Gouvernementality » easily accessible in Current Contents. But the publication under review was only possible in France. In accordance with Michel Foucault's own way to do philosophy and politics, this book combines in a very interesting way different approaches to his seminal work about prisons : The b...

  19. Il razzismo come strategia di difesa sociale. Michel Foucault e le forme attuali del biopotere

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    Maura Simone

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Racism as a Social Defense Strategy. Michel Foucault and Current Forms of Biopower - During his lessons held at the College de France in 1976 Michel Foucault presents a genealogy of two types of narratives, concerning respectively war and race theory, considered in their historical development from the XVIth Century. Foucault’s work Il faut défendre la société outlines a specific model for the function of race theory, seen as a technique of normalization of diversity, and not longer as an “exceptional event” produced by the “totalitarian” narratives which arose in the XXth Century. This paper aims to stress the actuality of Foucault’s position, trying to show how the concept of bio-power, already at work in these lessons, deserves an active and productive role in the analysis of contemporary “democratic” societies, because of the structure of their internal cohesion, based on strategies developing “inclusion”/“exclusion” dynamics.

  20. El “biopoder” en Michel Foucault. Emergencia y linaje de un concepto

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    Verna Martínez Martín

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available La losofía de Michel Foucault ha sido una de las influencias más importantes que el siglo XX ha ejercido sobre nuestro pensamiento político contemporáneo. Entre sus contribuciones, la noción de “biopoder” es notable tanto por el amplio espectro de problemas que ha señalado desde su creación por el pensador, cuanto por la flexibilidad con la que es capaz de cambiar su sentido en función del contexto de problematización en el que aparece. Para comprender cuál es el marco conceptual desde el que Foucault concibió esta noción en su Historia de la sexualidad, es necesario un trabajo de lectura atenta y análisis de las re exiones originales en torno a ella. Nuestra intención es prestar atención a cómo Foucault pensó el poder en sus cursos del Collège de France desde el inicio de la elabora- ción de Historia de la sexualidad.

  1. War, Power and Liberalism: the Politicization in the Work of Michel Foucault

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    Joaquín Fortanet

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available This paper attempts to examine the analysis on liberalism that Michel Foucault developed during his last courses in the Collège de France. This analysis becomes a redefinition of the concept of power, understood as war, and a reflection on the concepts of security and population, by means of which the relation between war, power and liberalism offers a map of the present time, an age when the new rationalityof government can be defined as specifically liberal.

  2. Critical thinking and contemporary mental health care: Michel Foucault's "history of the present".

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    Roberts, Marc

    2017-04-01

    In order to be able to provide informed, effective and responsive mental health care and to do so in an evidence-based, collaborative and recovery-focused way with those who use mental health services, there is a recognition of the need for mental health professionals to possess sophisticated critical thinking capabilities. This article will therefore propose that such capabilities can be productively situated within the context of the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, one of the most challenging, innovative and influential thinkers of the 20th century. However, rather than focusing exclusively upon the content of Foucault's work, it will be suggested that it is possible to discern a general methodological approach across that work, a methodological approach that he refers to as "the history of the present." In doing so, Foucault's history of the present can be understood as a productive, albeit provisional, framework in which to orientate the purpose and process of critical thinking for mental health professionals by emphasizing the need to both historicize and politicize the theoretical perspectives and therapeutic practices that characterize contemporary mental health care. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  3. Comentarios de Agamben a la noción de biopolítica de Foucault Comentários de Agamben à noção de biopolítica de Foucault "Agamben Commentaries" to michel foucault's notion of biopolitics

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    Graciela Lechuga-Solís

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Indisociable a la propuesta crítica del estudio del poder desarrollada por Michel Foucault es la noción de biopolítica la que ha sido retomada, entre otros, por Giorgio Agamben quien le ha dado una lectura distinta con la intención de "corregirla". En las páginas siguientes se hace un recorrido de las afirmaciones de Foucault sobre la biopolítica y las hechas por el pensador italiano sobre el tema en su libro Homo sacer I, en particular en la introducción. Además se muestra la dificultad de la empresa agambiana debido a las grandes diferencias en las formas de pensar de ambos autores, por lo que la pretendida "corrección" es un mero comentario.Indissociável à proposta crítica do estudo de poder desenvolvida por Michel Foucault é a noção de biopolítica, que tem sido retomada, entre outros, por Giorgio Agamben, que faz uma leitura diferente com a intenção de "corrigi-la". Nas páginas a seguir faz-se um percurso das afirmações de Foucault sobre a biopolítca, bem como as realizadas pelo pensador italiano sobre o tema em seu livro Homo sacer I, em particular na introdução. Outrossim, apresenta-se a dificuldade da empresa agambiana às grandes diferenças nas formas de pensar de ambos os autores, razão pela qual a pretensa "correção" é um mero comentário.Inextricably linked to the critical proposal study of power and its exercise developed by Michel Foucault is the notion of Biopolitics which have been revisited by Giorgio Agamben who has given a different interpretation in an attemt to "correct" it. In what follows a run through the notion of Foucault's biopolitics is made, as well as Agamben's claims about Biopolitics, in particular in the introduction of his book Homo Sacer I. In addition the difficult of such task shown here is due to the huge differences of both thinkers, thus Agamben's supposed "correction", it's only a commentary.

  4. "Pensamento do fora", conhecimento e pensamento em educação: conversações com Michel Foucault "Thought of the outside", knowledge and thought in education: conversations with Michel Foucault

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    Cintya Regina Ribeiro

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available O presente trabalho visa problematizar a suposta constituição virtuosa entre educação e conhecimento oriunda de certa herança cultural da modernidade ocidental. A problemática ancora-se na indagação difusa, porém insistente, a ecoar no campo educacional: "o que é o ato do pensar, em educação, na contemporaneidade?". A tomada das condições atuais do pensamento como um problema de pesquisa educacional coloca em questão a histórica articulação entre conhecimento e pensamento reflexivo, obrigando ao confronto de certos amálgamas pedagógicos caros ao campo educacional moderno. Tal enfrentamento se realiza na companhia dos pensadores Michel Foucault e Friedrich Nietzsche, dada a relevância estratégica de suas produções, particularmente acerca da linguagem, da produção da verdade e de suas implicações nos modos de conhecer e pensar. Busca-se operacionalizar uma crítica da linguagem em direção a uma crítica do pensamento em educação, na chave de uma problematização ético-política. Nesse trabalho, tal plataforma analítica configura-se a partir das discussões de Michel Foucault - tanto em relação à questão do pensamento do fora, tal como elaborada por Maurice Blanchot, como em relação ao pensamento da diferença, tal como formulado por Gilles Deleuze. Sugerimos que a exploração desse debate possa atuar como um exercício de exterioridade ou de pensamento diferencial no jogo com o conhecimento e com o pensamento reflexivo presentes no campo educacional - seja no âmbito dos fazeres pedagógicos cotidianos da escola, seja no campo da produção da pesquisa educacional.This study aims to discuss the supposed virtuous constitution of education and knowledge originated from a certain cultural heritage of Western modernity. The study's problematic is anchored in the diffuse but insistent question which echoes in the educational field: "what is the act of thinking in education in contemporary times?". Studying the

  5. A caixa de ferramentas de Michel Foucault, a reforma psiquiátrica e os desafios contemporâneos Michel Foucault's conceptual toolbox, psychiatric reform and contemporary challenges

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    Jardel Sander

    2010-08-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo busca discutir as influências das ideias de Michel Foucault - sua caixa de ferramentas conceituais - na reforma psiquiátrica brasileira. Nesse sentido, parte-se de um olhar mais amplo sobre o projeto do autor, buscando identificar sua atualidade no cenário da saúde mental brasileira. Para tanto, traça-se um percurso histórico que retoma, brevemente, os acontecimentos do final dos anos 1970 no Brasil até alcançar os dias atuais. O esforço é justamente o de colocar em questão a necessidade de outras ferramentas conceituais, no intuito de esclarecer as condições de possibilidade de noções como as de loucura, doença mental e desrazão, em busca de uma relação porosa com o Fora (Dehors. Sendo assim, busca-se refletir sobre a importância das artes, em sua potência de criação e invenção, nesse processo, como possível fornecedora de ferramentas de trabalho.This paper discusses the influences of Michel Foucault's ideas - its conceptual toolbox - to the Brazilian psychiatric reform, that composes the current scenario of mental health in Brazil. It is made a historic rescue retaking, although shortly, the events of the late 1970s in Brazil. Subsequently, it is questioned these changes actuality, as well as the need for further conceptual tools in order to point possibility conditions for notions such as madness, mental illness and déraison, seeking for a relationship with the outside (dehors. It is concluded by emphasizing the importance of arts (its creation and invention potency, in the process of constructing a new conceptual toolbox.

  6. Michel Foucault e a construção discursiva do corpo do sujeito moderno e sua relação com a psicologia Michel Foucault y la construcción discursiva del cuerpo de lo sujeto moderno y su relación con la psicologia Michel Foucault and the discursive construction of modern subject's body and their relation with psychology

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    Fernando de Almeida Silveira

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Michel Foucault investiga "a história das relações que o pensamento mantém com a verdade" e como se estabelece a correlação entre pensamento e verdade, tendo o enunciado do corpo como elemento discursivo fundamental na constituição dos jogos de verdades sobre o sujeito moderno. Através da leitura da bibliografia desse autor, de comentaristas e de outros filósofos modernos, esta pesquisa estuda a questão do corpo na fase arqueológica foucaultiana, principalmente no livro As Palavras e As Coisas, destacando as formações discursivas do corpo, da vida e do homem em seus efeitos subjetivadores, com especial referência à constituição discursiva do sujeito psicológico. Verificou-se que Foucault desnaturaliza o corpo, apresentando-o como conceito-chave (ou grade de especificação na produção de discursos sobre o homem moderno, o que nos permite também compreender a psiqué não como emanação ou essência metafísica do corpo, mas como instrumento discursivo, singularmente emergente na história do pensamento moderno.Michel Foucault investiga "la historia de las relaciones que el pensamiento mantiene con la verdad" y como la correlación entre el pensamiento y la verdad es establecida, al traer el cuerpo como elemento discursivo fundamental en los juegos de verdades sobre la constitución del sujeto moderno. A través de la lectura de la bibliografía de este autor, comentaristas y otros filósofos, la investigación estudia la cuestión del cuerpo en la fase de Foucault arqueológica, principalmente en "Las Palabras y las Cosas", destacando las formaciones discursivas del cuerpo, de la vida y del hombre en sus efectos sujetivadores, a la constitución del sujeto psicológico. Se comprobó que Foucault desnaturaliza el cuerpo, presentándolo como concepto-clave en la producción de discursos sobre el hombre moderno. Lo que nos permite comprender también la psiqué, no como emanación o esencia metafísica del cuerpo, sino como

  7. Rupturas epistemológicas e o discurso sobre Deus. Uma leitura a partir de Michel Foucault. (Epistemological ruptures and discourse about God. A reading from Michel Foucault. - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2010v8n18p27

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    Flávio Augusto Senra Ribeiro

    2010-11-01

    Full Text Available O artigo apresenta o resultado da pesquisa que abordou a investigação sobre as rupturas epistemológicas e o discurso sobre Deus na obra As palavras e as coisas, de Michel Foucault. Intitulada como "Deus, as palavras e as coisas", a pesquisa parcialmente apresentada aqui pretende ser uma colaboração para a análise do que se tem identificado como fenômeno do neo-ateísmo, um tema de grande relevância para a Filosofia da Religião nos dias atuais. Para compreendê-lo, apresentam-se, seguindo a perspectiva foucaultiana, os distintos matizes epistemológicos que sustentam a concepção sobre Deus. Em seus três momentos, o texto apresenta a episteme renascentista e o discurso de Deus, a episteme clássica e a idéia sobre Deus e, por fim, a episteme moderna, a morte de Deus e a morte do homem. Acredita-se que aquilo que se decide na contemporaneidade não seja necessariamente o acabamento do tempo da morte de Deus e a consequente morte do homem, fruto do modo moderno de compreender  e tematizar o divino, o infinito, o absoluto ou o verdadeiro, mas uma clara disputa entre variadas perspectivas epistemológicas em suas concretizações científica, política, cultural e religiosa. Palavras-chaves: Michel Foucault, Filosofia da Religião, Epistemologia, Deus, Ateísmo.   Abstract The article presents the results of research that investigate on epistemological ruptures and speaking about God in The Order of Things writhed by Michel Foucault. Entitled as "God, words and things," this research partially presented here is intended as collaboration for the analysis of what has been identified as phenomenon of neo-atheism, a topic very important for the Philosophy of Religion today. To understand it, we present, following the Foucaultian perspective, the different epistemological nuances underpinning conception of God. In her three moments, the text presents the Renaissance episteme and the God's discourse, the classical episteme and the idea of God

  8. Michel Foucault's Theory of Rhetoric as Epistemic.

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    Foss, Sandra K.; Gill, Ann

    1987-01-01

    Formulates a middle-level theory that explains the process by which rhetroic is epistemic, using Foucault's notion of the discursive formation as a starting point. Discusses five theoretical units derived from Foucault--discursive practices, rules, roles, power, and knowledge--and relationships among them. Analyzes Disneyland, using Foucault's…

  9. UN ETHOS HISTORICO La historia en los últimos trabajos de Michel Foucault.

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    Luis César Sanfelippo

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available En el presente texto, se indagará la concepción de la historia presente en los últimos trabajos de Michel Foucault. Estos trabajos se inscriben en un contexto de crisis del régimen moderno de historicidad, centrado en las ideas de progreso y de revolución. Intentaremos demostrar que, en dicho contexto, la obra del filósofo francés permitiría abordar una relación diferente entre la práctica intelectual y las prácticas de resistencia, entre la labor historiográfica y unos modos de vida que, en el presente, permitirían una transformación de lo que somos.

  10. A psicologia em História da Loucura de Michel Foucault

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    Fernando de Almeida Silveira

    2009-04-01

    Full Text Available Michel Foucault investiga "a história das relações que o pensamento mantém com a verdade" e desnaturaliza corpo, alma e psiqué considerando-os invenções histórico-discursivas, as quais só têm sentido se inseridas em determinados arranjos epistêmicos de produção de verdades, no caso, o surgimento das ciências humanas. Esta pesquisa estuda a ordem do discurso foucaultiano sobre a Psicologia em sua fase arqueológica, no livro História da Loucura, com o intuito de oferecer subsídios para a compreensão da história dos discursos da Psicologia, no que se refere à edificação do sujeito e do objeto psicológicos e em seus efeitos subjetivadores.

  11. A crítica genealógica de Michel Foucault às governamentalidades do liberarismo

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    Nunes, Nei Antonio

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    Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política, Florianópolis, 2012 O objetivo principal deste trabalho é explicitar/analisar A Crítica genealógica de Michel Foucault às governamentalidades do liberalismo. No primeiro capítulo, procuramos realizar uma discussão metodológica e, desse modo, evidenciar o instrumental genealógico do teórico francês, dando ênfase à explicitação das categorias ce...

  12. Foucault-Teaching-Theology

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    Beaudoin, Tom

    2003-01-01

    Religious education takes place within a postmodern culturalintellectual milieu exemplified in part by the work of Michel Foucault, which disrupts common modern concepts of knowledge and power. For Foucault, power is not only repressive but also productive, insofar as every system of knowledge depends on social arrangements of power for the…

  13. Michel Foucault e a teoria do poder

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    ALBUQUERQUE, JOSÉ AUGUSTO GUILHON

    1995-01-01

    Mais do que a teoria do poder, Foucault propõe regras ou cautelas metodológicas. Diferentemente das concepções correntes, Foucault pretende explicar o poder sem o rei como sua fonte e natureza. Depois de comparar diferentes concepções correntes de poder, mostrando sua dependência da noção de um soberano, define-se o poder em Foucault como uma relação assimétrica que institui a autoridade e a obediência, e não como um objeto preexistente em um soberano, que o usa para dominar seus súditos. Par...

  14. O deserto e o espelho. Refletindo sobre a heterotopia com Michel Foucault e Nadine Gordimer

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    Anderson Bastos Martins

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Este ensaio representa uma tentativa de releitura do artigo “De outros espaços”, de Michel Foucault, seguindo uma análise da relaçáo estabelecida entre a protagonista do romance The pickup [O engate], de Nadine Gordimer, e o deserto, durante a viagem que ela faz à casa de campo de seu noivo. Apresentaremos um reenfoque do conceito foucaultiano de heterotopia através da elucidaçáo de sua noçáo de espelho e sua contribuiçáo potencial para refletir sobre a experiência espacial na contemporaneidade.

  15. MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE FINANCIAL GOVERNABILITY REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

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    Juan Omar, Agüero

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available In this paper I present a governability or power technology form what I call financial governability that differs from the German ordoliberalism and the North American anacor-liberalism, analyzed by Michel Foucault. In which context does this form emerge from financial rationality?, how does it emerge and develop itself?, what meanings has it got for biopolítics and governability? And what implications happen from this transformation process of the human work in financial capital?, these are some of the matters that are discussed in this paper. As from the concepts of biopolítics and governability, I treat the theories of the policy of society and human capital, as foundations of the German ordoliberalism and the North American anarco-liberalism, respectively, later discussing the governability form which I call financial governability, as power technology differentiated from those.

  16. THE LIMITS OF FOUCAULT IN THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAW

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    Daniel Nunes Pereira

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    Full Text Available The study hereby proposed evidences problematic issues on the thought of Michel Foucault, especially regarding the Law Theory. The arguments deployed reverberate the discussion held between Foucault and Habermas. At first, the paper seeks to highlight aporiae and hypostasis of Foucault's thought tensioned on the problems hereby shown. After the paper denounces flirtations of Foucault's work with the irrationalism and the problems of this intellectual attitude towards the neo-Kantian and Hegelian civilizational demands. Finally, the paper retains to an eventual filiation of Michel Foucault to Post-Modernity and the consequences of this for the legal thought.

  17. L’actualité et Michel Foucault.

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    Claude Raffestin

    2005-03-01

    Full Text Available L’un des grands mérites de Foucault, parmi beaucoup d’autres, a été de suggérer des questions, des questions innombrables dont certaines n’ont toujours pas reçu de réponses satisfaisantes. Un peu plus de vingt ans après sa disparition, il est encore parmi nous, avec les questions qui parsèment son œuvre ou qui sont suscitées par elle. Pour le dixième anniversaire de sa mort, j’avais rédigé un texte intitulé « Foucault aurait-il pu révolutionner la géographie? » ...

  18. Em torno de Michel Foucault e Luis Buñuel: saber e poder na análise de O Discreto Charme da Burguesia

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    Priscila Canova Motta

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    O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o filme O Discreto Charme da Burguesia, de Luis Buñuel (1972), por meio de alguns conceitos do referencial teórico-metodológico de Michel Foucault: saber e enunciado discursivo em suas relações com o poder e verdade, e buscar compreender o poder em seu exercício no filme, e não apenas em seus efeitos. Partindo de alguns princípios sobre saber em Foucault, mapeamos um enunciado fílmico que apareceu em algumas sequências, qual seja: O barulho que oculta a di...

  19. Michel Foucault se historiografiese benadering as lens in historiese ...

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    In the article the author argues that Foucault's insights on the archaeological historiography, genealogy and discourse analysis can be used as a lens to write history as well as to deconstruct the existing historical sources. Foucault's main thesis is that history is largely an illusion. Foucault contrasts effective historiography ...

  20. A moderna política dos castigos uma perspectiva da punição em Michel Foucault

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    Daniel de Souza Lemos

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2013v10n1p114 O presente artigo pretende abordar o conceito de punição, presente na obra do filósofo francês Michel Foucault, a partir das transformações que tal idéia sofreu, com repercussões em todo o Ocidente, especialmente a partir do século XVIII, tomando-se como modelo a sua ocorrência na Sociedade Francesa. Para isso procedeu-se à análise de obras relevantes do pensador estudado, especialmente aquelas em que o mesmo aborda, de forma mais direta, a questão ora examinada. A pesquisa teve como foco inicial a obra “Vigiar e Punir - História da Violência nas Prisões”, escrita em 1975, especialmente a sua segunda parte, “Punição”, em que Foucault, no capítulo segundo, trata da “Punição Generalizada”.

  1. Education and/or Displacement? A Pedagogical Inquiry into Foucault's "Limit-Experience"

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    Thompson, Christiane

    2010-01-01

    This paper is concerned with the educational-philosophical implications of Michel Foucault's work: It poses the question whether Michel Foucault's remarks surrounding "limit-experience" can be placed in an educational context and provide an alternative view regarding the relationship that we maintain to ourselves. As a first step, the significance…

  2. O cortiço e a prisão - vigilãncia e controle: Aluísio Azevedo e Michel Foucault

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    Marcio Luiz Carreri

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available The current articleintends to analyze the existingrelations between metaficcionhistoriografic and the ideologypresented in the naturalisticromance O Cortiço (1890, fromAluísio Azevedo, by means ofarticulation of a reading fromFoucault’s method. Processingdialogues between apparent anddifferent speech areas, it considersa reflection about control anddiscipline through panoptism, usingas research source the Vigiar epunir book, by Michel Foucault in1975.

  3. Foucault's Political Challenge

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    Bang, Henrik

    2014-01-01

    If one reads Michel Foucault "backward," so to speak, one can sense the contours of a "big narrative" of "the political" which is founded on the claim that "Where there is obedience there cannot be parrhesia" (Foucault, 2011, p. 336). What Foucault is doing with this sentence is breaking the circle...... from showing how obedience is incompatible with a politics of truth. The unity created by centralized domination, he holds, is democratically "false," however legitimate it may be. There can be no real democracy where laypeople are commanded to hand over their capacity and right to govern themselves...

  4. Descartes, Foucault, Derrida

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    Thein, Karel

    2010-01-01

    Roč. 58, č. 2 (2010), s. 171-202 ISSN 0015-1831 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514 Keywords : Derrida, Jacques * Foucault , Michel * Descartes, René * Descartes' Meditations * dreaming and madness Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

  5. The organizations, the power and Michel Foucault / Las organizaciones, el poder y Michel Foucault

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    Javier Carreón Guillén

    2008-10-01

    Full Text Available Max Weber alleged that power and domination coexist in organizations; and that power is the ability to attain certain resources (economic, force, knowledge, etc.. When an organization is operating -using these resources, e.g., power-, and requires that orders are observed, domination must be applied under the logic of the administrative framework. This assumption attributes, as expected, a very reactionary role to the administration. Foucault rephrases the dilemma using the microphysics of power, relieving the administration of any suspicion of conservatism.

  6. “Pensamiento del afuera”, conocimiento y pensamiento en educación: conversaciones con Michel Foucault

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    Cinthya Regina Ribeiro

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo busca problematizar la supuesta constitución virtuosa entre educación y conocimiento, oriunda de cierta herencia cultural de la modernidad occidental. La problemática se apoya en la indagación difusa, aunque insistente, que se repite en el campo de la educación: “¿De qué se trata el acto de pensar, en educación, en la contemporaneidad?”. El tomar las condiciones actuales de pensamiento como un problema de investigación en educación, pone en duda la histórica articulación entre conocimiento y pensamiento reflexivo, lo que obliga a la confrontación de ciertas mezclas pedagógicas preciadas en el campo educativo moderno. Tal enfrentamiento se realiza a la luz de las reflexiones de los pensadores Michel Foucault y Friedrich Nietzsche, dada la relevancia estratégica de sus producciones, especialmente sobre el lenguaje, la producción de verdad y sus implicaciones en los modos de conocer y pensar. Se busca construir una crítica del lenguaje en dirección a una crítica del pensamiento en educación, en el centro de una problematización ético-política. En este trabajo, tal plataforma analítica se configura a partir de las discusiones de Michel Foucault, tanto en relación a la cuestión del pensamiento del afuera, como en relación al pensamiento de la diferencia, tal como fue formulado por Gilles Deleuze. Sugerimos que la explotación de ese debate, puede actuar como un ejercicio de exterioridad o de pensamiento diferencial en el juego con el conocimiento y con el pensamiento reflexivo presentes en el campo de la educación, sea en el ámbito de las tareas pedagógicas cotidianas en la escuela, o en el campo de la producción de la investigación en la educación.

  7. A testimony to Muzil: Hervé Guibert, Foucault, and the medical gaze.

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    Rendell, Joanne

    2004-01-01

    Testimony to Muzil: Hervé Guibert, Michel Foucault, and the "Medical Gaze" examines the fictional/autobiographical AIDS writings of the French writer Hervé Guibert. Locating Guibert's writings alongside the work of his friend Michel Foucault, the article explores how they echo Foucault's evolving notions of the "medical gaze." The article also explores how Guilbert's narrators and Guibert himself (as writer) resist and challenge the medical gaze; a gaze which particularly in the era of AIDS has subjected, objectified, and even sometimes punished the body of the gay man. It is argued that these resistances to the gaze offer a literary extension to Foucault's later work on power and resistance strategies.

  8. [Existence, Absence and Power of Madness: A Critical Review of Michel Foucault's Writings on the History and Philosophy of Madness].

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    Brückner, Burkhart; Iwer, Lukas; Thoma, Samuel

    2017-03-01

    This article discusses Michel Foucault's main writings on "madness and psychiatry" from his early works up to the 1970s. On the one hand, we reconstruct the overall theoretical and methodological development of his positions over the course of the different periods in his oeuvre. On the other hand, we also take a closer look at Foucault's philosophical considerations regarding the subjects of his investigations. After an initial introduction of our conceptual approach, we draw on the most recent research on Foucault to show to what extent the phenomenological description of the topic at hand and the historical-critical perspective that are reflected in his early writings of 1954 (the Introduction to Binswanger's Dream and Existence and Mental Illness and Personality) laid the ground for his later work. Moving on to Foucault's work during the 1960s, we look at the core features and methodological bases of his 1961 classic Folie et déraison (History of Madness). His propositions regarding the "absence of madness" in modernity are conceptualized as an inherently contradictory attempt to liberate the topic under study from the common assumptions at that time. We then situate his 1973/74 lectures on Psychiatric Power in the context of his shift towards analyzing the dynamics of power and highlight the renewed shift of focus in his statements on the "productivity" of madness as an effect of power. Finally, we sum up our critique by taking into account the history of the reception of Foucault's writings and ask about their potential significance for the contemporary philosophy and history of psychiatry.

  9. Foucault's genealogy of Christianity

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    Chrulew, Matthew Nikolai

    2017-01-01

    This thesis is an exploration of Michel Foucault's genealogy of Christianity. I argue that this important and under-appreciated aspect of his work is strongly influenced by Nietzsche's own anti-Christian writings on asceticism, priestly power and the death of God. Based on the texts currently available, I explicate in detail Foucault's perpetual and often ambivalent return to the confessional and pastoral apparatuses of the Church. I also explore how this work might relate to broader and incr...

  10. Recent translations of Foucault on mental health.

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    Bracken, Pat; Khalfa, Jean; Thomas, Philip

    2007-11-01

    The work of the French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, often dealt with subjects either directly or indirectly related to psychiatry. In the past, his work has been largely ignored or rejected by mainstream psychiatry. In the period under review, two important English translations of Foucault's work on psychiatry have been published. Our review focuses on these books, and also looks at some of the recent secondary literature relating to Foucault and mental health. We argue that psychiatry has a lot to gain from a positive engagement with Foucault's ideas.

  11. Ethical identification of the subject, and “techniques of the self” in the works of Michel Foucault

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    Yu V Yatsutsenko

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available We are used to the image of an individual as getting into the social reality created before and without him; however, Michel Foucault questions the genealogy of the modern subject, and states that within a ready-made social reality an individual is not given even to himself. Foucault considers processes and practices of individual self-identification, and modes of subjectivation , i. e. the ways, by which an individual seeks and finds his place in an already and completely configured system of social relations. Foucault develops a specific conceptual tool - “techniques of the self” as sets of representations and practices, by which an individual changes oneself and integrates into some ethical systems (of knowledge, rules of behavior, power relations. “Techniques of the self” are purely social, they do not constitute any ethical identity; on the contrary, they provide a socially determined self-identification. Foucault’s “techniques of the self” let us conceptualize the coincidence of the seemingly anonymous processes of governing and individual self-definition; these techniques serve as indicators of individual ethical normalization. Identification of the “techniques of the self” in subjects’ actions helps to define the governing processes not as a violent submission, but as a basic state of the social interaction systems. In order to verify the heuristic potential of the “techniques of the self” concept, the author considers ancient and early Christian models of subjectivation, which Foucault opposed as two ethical models of subject’s access to the “truths”. With the ancient ethical “techniques of the self”, a subject is a full-fledged ethical agent; with the early Christian techniques, he is to accept one’s ontological inability to establish the righteousness based only on one’s personal experience. For example, such an opposition helps to explain differences between tutorship forms and self-control goals.

  12. A genealogia em Foucault: uma trajetoria The genealogy in Foucault: a trajectory

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    Flavia Cristina Silveira Lemos

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo tem o objetivo de realizar uma trajetória da genealogia enquanto modo de escrever a história como pergunta/problema, de acordo com Michel Foucault, rompendo com uma história contínua, linear, teleológica, que buscava origens e semelhanças entre os objetos e as tentativas de estabelecer relações causais entre os acontecimentos. Uma história das práticas discursivas, de poder e subjetivação era a empreitada proposta por Foucault. A análise da proveniência e da emergência rompia com toda uma tradição historiográfica que fazia dos eventos memória e monumentos construídos e interpretados por categorias de semelhança. Foucault questiona este modelo de fazer história, trabalhando com novos temas e problemas e operando com a multiplicidade de acontecimentos dispersos, raros, heterogêneos, em recortes de séries de enunciados em arquivos, sem busca de origens primeiras e sem fins utilitaristas a alcançar.This article aims to achieve a path of genealogy as a way to write history as question / problem, according to Michel Foucault, breaking with a continuous, linear, teleological history, which sought origins and similarities between objects and attempts to establish causal relationships between the events. A history of discursive practices, power and subjectivity was the contract proposed by Foucault. The analysis of the source and emergency broke with a whole historiographical tradition which made the events memory and monuments constructed and interpreted by categories of similarity. Foucault questions this model to make history, working with new issues and problems and working with the multiplicity of scattered, rare, heterogeneous events, in clippings of series of statements in files, without searching for early origins and without utilitarian goals to be achieved.

  13. Racismo de estado e tanatopolítica: Sobre o paradoxo do nazismo em Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben

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    Francisco Bruno Pereira Diógenes

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    Full Text Available Este artigo propõe-se a expor as reflexões de dois filósofos contemporâneos, quais sejam, Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben, de modo a promover um paralelo,ou mesmo uma analogia, entre duas noções que permeiam as obras dos respectivos autores. Estas noções consistem no que Foucault chamou de Racismo de Estado, e no que Agamben nomeou de Tanatopolítica. O contexto, e tambémo objeto, no qual se efetiva este intento é, em uma palavra, a política totalitária do Estado nazista.Ambos os autores compreendem os fenômenos totalitários a partir do ponto de vista da biopolítica, entretanto, ao tratar do Estado Nacional-socialista, Foucault identifica nele um paradoxo, sem, contudo desenvolver com maior profundidade a imbricação que ali se deu. Agamben, por sua vez, concebe semelhante paradoxo como pertencendo a uma forma de fazer política que já traz, desde a sua origem, os fundamentos que permitiram a emergência do fenômeno da forma como surgiu e que fora identificada pelos ditos autores, ou seja, trazendo em si tanto elementos antigos, como a glória e os ideais de sangue, quanto modernos, como a eugenia. A pesquisa bibliográfica que aqui se desenvolveu deu-se na leitura de, basicamente, três obras dos supraditos autores, quais sejam, Em defesa da sociedade, História da sexualidade I – A vontade de saber, de um lado (Foucault, e Homo sacer – O poder soberano e a vida nua I, de outro (Agamben.

  14. Analitiese konsepte in middel-Foucault | Beukes | HTS Teologiese ...

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    Analytic concepts in middle Foucault. This article investigates prominent analytic concepts in the philosophical historiographies of Michel Foucault (1926–1984), with specific regards to the work done in the middle phase of his career. These concepts accentuate the relation between history, power and contingency within the ...

  15. Habermas and Foucault

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    Flyvbjerg, Bent

    2002-01-01

    Taken together, the works of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault highlight an essential tension in modernity. This is the tension between the normative and the real, between what should be done and what is actually done. Understanding this tension is crucial to understanding modern democracy, what...... it is and what it could be. It has been argued that an effective way of making democracy stronger is to strengthen civil society. This article contains a comparative analysis of the central ideas of Habermas and Foucault as they pertain to the question of democracy and civil society. More specifically......, the discourse ethics of Habermas is contrasted with the power analytics and ethics of Foucault evaluating their usefulness for those interested in understanding, and bringing about, democratic social change...

  16. Ética sexual y estética de la existencia en la antigua Grecia. Aproximaciones para una reflexión sobre la homosexualidad desde Michel Foucault

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    Montoya Gómez, Rubén Darío

    2011-01-01

    Esta tesis estudia el conjunto de valores que llevaron a que la relación erótica entre hombres se constituyera en el foco principal de reflexión en la ética sexual griega. También intenta responder cuál es la propuesta de Michel Foucault respecto a la experiencia de la homosexualidad hoy.

  17. La noción de enunciado rector de Michel Foucault y el análisis de objetos discursivos mediáticos

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    Voss, Jefferson; Navarro, Pedro

    2013-01-01

    Este texto tem como escopo discorrer sobre a noção de enunciado reitor, erigida no interior do método arqueológico de Michel Foucault, e discutir sua operacionalidade para a Análise de Discurso (AD). Para tanto, arguimos, primeiramente, sobre as possibilidades de trabalho com o método arqueológico. Na sequência, apresentamos algumas ressalvas que precisariam ser feitas diante da especificidade de algumas materialidades discursivas contemporâneas. Essas ressalvas dizem respeito a algumas noçõe...

  18. Von den Dispositiven der Macht und ihrer sozialen Morphologie - Zur Aktualität der Machtanalysen Michel Foucaults

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    Wolfgang Neurath

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available Dieser Beitrag rekapituliert im Blick auf die Überlappungen von Macht, Souveränität und Herrschaft die soziale Morphologie der Foucaultschen Gesellschaftstheorie und betont dabei die Aktualität von Forschungen, die sich machtkritisch an den Dispositivbegriff anlehnen. Was ein Dispositiv ist, wird im Rekurs auf Deleuze und Agamben vor Augen geführt, um in der Figur der "schizophrenen Flucht" ein entscheidendes Moment der französischen Debatten auszumachen. Dabei ist der Panoptismus nach wie vor ein bemerkenswertes Modell, um historisch die innere Funktionsweise von Disziplinargesellschaften zu begreifen, die sich zu Kontrollgesellschaften gewandelt haben. Dem Homo digitalis steht angesichts von Big Data im Semiokapitalismus des 21. Jahrhunderts ein System wechselseitiger Kontrolle vor Augen, dem er sich lückenlos unterwerfen soll. Dem setzt sich nach wie vor die Figur der widerständigen Subjektivierung entgegen, wie sie Foucault in seinem Spätwerk entworfen hat. Auf allgemeinster Ebene hebt dieser Artikel hervor, dass wir auch heute noch ein politisches Modell vor Augen haben, dass der antiken Arena im Sinne einer politischen Heterotopie entspricht, in der es im Krieg um das nackte Überleben geht. Zusammenfassend wird Foucaults Kriegsparadigma über Michel de Certeaus Modellierung von Strategie und Taktik auf die Figur des Bürgerkriegs bezogen, um insgesamt zu betonen, dass dort wo Macht ist, immer auch Widerstand möglich ist. This article recaps the social morphology of Foucault’s theory of society in the light of power, sovereignty, and domination, emphasizing the actuality of research that is referring to the concept of apparatus. This concept is pointed out in the recourse to Deleuze and Agamben, to identify – in the figure of "schizophrenic escape" – a decisive moment in the French debates. Panoptism is still a remarkable model for historical understanding of the internal functioning of disciplinary societies that have

  19. 'Must we burn Foucault?' Ethics as art of living: Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault

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    Vintges, K.

    2001-01-01

    The title of this article refers to Beauvoir's essay Must We Burn De Sade? (1953/1952). Analogous to Beauvoir's essay on Sade, this article is something of an apology for Foucault. I use Beauvoir's essay on Sade to discuss Foucault's concept of ethics as an art of living. I conclude that the final

  20. Foucault and physiotherapy.

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    Nicholls, David A

    2012-08-01

    For nearly 40 years, researchers have been coming to terms with the impact of Michel Foucault's philosophical work. In fields as diverse as medical sociology, health policy, architecture, urban geography, history, and sport, scholars have made use of Foucault's notions of discourse, knowledge, truth, and power. With a few exceptions, however, Foucault's writings have yet to permeate physiotherapy. Foucault's ideas represent powerful, and highly useful analytical strategies for analyzing our past, present, and future, and his writings provide us with a set of conceptual, methodological, and philosophical approaches to help us unpack the cultural, historical, and social context in which we operate as a profession. In this paper, I attempt to introduce the reader to some of Foucault's radical ideas and show how these might be applied to physiotherapy practice. Drawing on Foucault's writings on the functions of discourse to illustrate how something as benign as a physiotherapist's treatment bed can be understood as something more than a piece of necessary medical technology, I show that by approaching seemingly obvious, everyday objects, practices, systems, and structures, we can learn much about physiotherapy's past, present, and future and apply this knowledge to think in new ways about the profession.

  1. Clausewitz and Foucault: War and power | Deacon | Scientia ...

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    Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced theorists across a wide range of disciplines, and one such was the late French philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault. This paper considers what at first sight appears to be Foucault's reversal of Clausewitz, but which on closer examination can be seen to be an accordance ...

  2. Der Erscheinungsraum der Geschlechter. Macht, Diskurs und Indentität bei Michel Foucault und deren Relevanz für die feministische Kritik am Geschlechterbegriff

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    Dürr, Christian

    1995-01-01

    The thesis aims at the theoretical foundation of deconstructivist strategies in contemporary feminism with reference to the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. The feminist tradition of distinguishing between the conceptions of "gender" as a culturally coded form of identity and "sex" as its supposed biological foundation has been criticized by younger feminist thinkers, such as Judith Butler, whose work is related to contemporary postmodern thinking. The work of Butler, for example, ...

  3. Transgression or Stasis? Challenging Foucault in LIS Theory

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    Buschman, John

    2007-01-01

    Michel Foucault (1926-84) is a primary thinker informing the construction of a critical theory of library and information science (LIS), or librarianship. He is widely cited and is adapted in various ways that focus on LIS forms of power, discourse, and so on. Others have addressed Foucault's topics, but he remains central. Librarianship has taken…

  4. Author in cyberspace: comparison of the current position of the author and authorship anonymity with theories of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes

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    Bobák, Alexander

    2015-01-01

    This thesis analyzes the position of the author in the environment of internet. The main source of information for this thesis is the study of Roland Barthes - Death of the Author and the lecture of Michel Foucault - What is an author? After a thorough analysis of these two works, the thesis focuses on the description of the webpage www.pismak.cz, which has been selected as a suitable representative for environment of internet. This website allows us to study and explore the role and place of...

  5. Michel Foucault's Limit-Experience Limited

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    Papastephanou, Marianna

    2018-01-01

    Educational philosophy has not discussed Foucault's publications on the Iranian Revolution and the related controversy. Foucauldian concepts are applied to education, though his only writings which "sidetracked" him from exploring power within the state, namely, his journalistic accounts of his visits to Iran, remain unexplored in our…

  6. Às voltas com a História da Loucura: um percurso intelectual de Michel Foucault

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    Elton Corbanezi

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available Trata-se de compreender o projeto em História da Loucura na Idade Clássica [1961] como um élan à trajetória intelectual de Foucault, a qual problematiza a racionalidade das nossas relações com o Outro da cultura ocidental, isto é, com aquele que reside historicamente no não dito. Para tanto, torna-se necessário discutir as implicações sociais a partir da oposição entre o normal e o patológico, de modo a ressaltar uma questão fundamental em sua tese de 1961, a saber: de que maneira o louco, como representante de uma das experiências limite problematizadas por Foucault, passou a ser concebido como o Outro a ser recusado pela racionalidade ocidental. Desse modo, por meio de sua análise histórico- filosófica e da demonstração da crescente subordinação da loucura à razão – a partir da qual se torna possível a emergência da loucura e de suas redes de controle social –, trata-se de evidenciar de que modo o homem, como um objeto fictício de si, aparece como uma problematização já em seus primeiros escritos. Às voltas com as embrionárias reflexões e problematizações das (não relações que se tem com os saberes sujeitados da cultura ocidental, confere-se a contribuição de Michel Foucault à filosofia contemporânea, em sua tarefa crítica do pensamento que implica a arte de não ser governado pela verdade em sentido a-histórico.

  7. Rezension : Wissen um den Wahn. Foucaults Geschichte der Psychiatrie ; zu "Foucaults Geschichte der Psychiatrie"

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    Krause, Robert

    2006-01-01

    Aus dem umfangreichen Werk des französischen Philosophen und Sozialhistorikers Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ist ein weiteres Buch auf Deutsch erschienen. Der Band „Die Macht der Psychiatrie" geht auf eine Reihe von Vorlesungen zurück, die Foucault im Wintersemester '73/'74 am Collège de France gehalten hat. Die in Frankreich bereits im Jahr 2003 veröffentlichten 12 Vorlesungen sind der Geschichte der Psychiatrie gewidmet und konzentrieren sich vor allem auf ihre Frühphase. Wesentlich gestützt ...

  8. Who can resist Foucault?

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    Bleakley, Alan; Bligh, John

    2009-08-01

    Michel Foucault's analysis of "the birth of the clinic" describes the genesis of a unified discourse that, in retrospect, has shaped western medicine for two centuries. However, in looking prospectively toward a 21st century medicine, Foucault's analysis is necessary but not sufficient. To better critically address medicine and medical education in the era of simulation, we could draw on frameworks developed by futurists such as Jean Baudrillard. Foucault's analysis does not account for contemporary, complex developments of the clinical gaze as the gaze is distributed across practitioners in increasing use of sophisticated, representational diagnostic imaging. Further, Foucault's antihumanist rhetoric sometimes strays into the antihumane, and this is disturbing for those who support the development of patient-centered medicine. Yet we are increasingly teaching aspects of medicine, such as communication, in simulated learning environments in which complex reality is absent, perhaps inadvertently creating an "inhumanity" in medical education.

  9. Michel Foucault e a revolução narrativa em psicopatologia e psicoterapia: ser-em-estórias entre pathos e poiesis

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    Full Text Available O modelo narrativo em psicopatologia e psicoterapia, com dinamismo crescente desde a proposta inicial de White e Epston (1990, afirma-se como crítica “discursiva” não somente das categorias de diagnóstico psicopatológico, mas também da assimetria cognitiva e prática na relação psicoterapêutica. Neste artigo, examinamos os fundamentos epistemológicos desse modelo, recorrendo a Michel Foucault para examinar os processos simbólicos de criação narrativa da subjetividade.

  10. Planning and Foucault

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    In this paper we argue that the use of the communicative theory of Jürgen Habermas in planning theory is problematic because it hampers an understanding of how power shapes planning. We posit an alternative approach based on the power analytics of Michel Foucault which focuses on "what is actually...... done", as opposed to Habermas`  focus on "what should be done". We discuss how the Foucauldian stance problematises planning, asking difficult questions about the treatment of legitimacy, rationality, knowledge and spatiality. We conclude that Foucault offers a type of analytic planning theory which...... offers better prospects than does Habermas for those interested in understanding and bringing about democratic social change through planning....

  11. Planning and Foucault

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    Flyvbjerg, Bent; Richardson, Tim

    2002-01-01

    In this paper we argue that the use of the communicative theory of Jürgen Habermas in planning theory is problematic because it hampers an understanding of how power shapes planning. We posit an alternative approach based on the power analytics of Michel Foucault which focuses on ?what is actually...... done?, as opposed to Habermas?s focus on ?what should be done?. We discuss how the Foucauldian stance problematises planning, asking difficult questions about the treatment of legitimacy, rationality, knowledge and spatiality. We conclude that Foucault offers a type of analytic planning theory which...... offers better prospects than does Habermas for those interested in understanding and bringing about democratic social change through planning....

  12. El concepto de «racismo» en Michel Foucault y Frantz Fanon: ¿teorizar desde la zona del ser o desde la zona del no-ser?

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    Ramón Grosfoguel

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo trata acerca de la emergencia histórica del racismo en el sistema-mundo y la definición del concepto de racismo. El mismo discute como contrapunteo la visión del racismo en Michel Foucault y la de Frantz Fanon. Este escrito provee una discusión acerca de las implicaciones epistémicas descoloniales de la teoría de Fanon acerca del racismo.

  13. Foucault e o marxismo

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    Full Text Available O presente artigo busca (reapresentar o filósofo francês Paul-Michel Foucault, partindo do pressuposto de que o pensamento deste é, em boa parte, fruto de discussões e lutas teóricas com Karl Heinrich Marx e, principalmente, com o marxismo. Num primeiro momento, defendemos que Foucault fez uso das ideias de Marx, tendo-o como influência sobretudo durante a sua curta passagem pelo Partido Comunista. Num segundo momento, expomos alguns dos impasses com o marxismo e com o pensamento de diferentes pensadores e militantes, ditos marxistas. Por fim, parece-nos que Marx e Foucault não são filósofos para todas as estações. Embora seja sabido que o pensamento de ambos foi e é utilizado em longa escala, eles não servem para tudo! O pensamento de Foucault demonstra uma visão cristalina acerca da diferença existente entre a pessoa Marx e seu pensamento, o marxismo e os marxistas. Talvez daí venha o espanto de Foucault ao perceber que desde o início foi considerado um inimigo pelos marxistas.

  14. Michel Foucault’s ‘Apology’ for Neoliberalism

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    2014-01-01

    Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014. This lecture evaluates the claim made by one of his closest followers, François Ewald, that Foucault offered an apology for neoliberalism, particularly of the American school represented......-democratic take-up of neoliberal thought. It indicates three limitations of his thought: the problem of state ‘veridiction’; the question of inequality; and the concept of the economy. It also indicates how these might be addressed within a general appreciation of his thought....

  15. Foucault's notion of problematization: a methodological discussion of the application of Foucault's later work to nursing research.

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    Frederiksen, Kirsten; Lomborg, Kirsten; Beedholm, Kirsten

    2015-09-01

    This study takes its point of departure in an oft-voiced critique that the French philosopher Michel Foucault gives discourse priority over practice, thereby being deterministic and leaving little space for the individual to act as an agent. Based on an interpretation of the latter part of Foucault's oeuvre, we argue against this critique and provide a methodological discussion of the perception that Foucault's method constitutes, primarily, discourse analysis. We argue that it is possible to overcome this critique of Foucault's work by the application of methodological tools adapted from Foucault's later writings and his diagnosis of his own work as studies of forms of problematization. To shed light on the possibilities that this approach offers to the researcher, we present a reading of aspects of Foucault's work, with a focus on his notion of forms of problematization. Furthermore, we elaborate on concepts from his so-called genealogical period, namely 'the dispositive', strategy and tactics. Our interpretation is supported by examples from a study of the emergence of Danish nursing education, which is based on an analytical framework that we developed in the light of an interpretation of aspects of Foucault's work. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  16. In Conversation with Mark Olssen: On Foucault with Marx and Hegel

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    Raaper, Rille; Olssen, Mark

    2017-01-01

    It is challenging to define who Michel Foucault was, whether he was a theorist, a philosopher, a historian, or a critic. In many of his books, and essays, Foucault denied being a philosopher or a theorist, nor did he want to be called a writer or a prophet. He described himself as an experimenter by saying that his work simply consists of…

  17. The Kantian Sleep: On the Limits of the “Foucault Effect”

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    Federico Luisetti

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available This paper analyzes the connection, established by Michel Foucault in The Order of Things, between the appearance of "man" as an anthropological presupposition of scientific and philosophical discourses, and the construction of a transcendental dispositif of thought. In accordance with this presupposition, the notion of life is conceived by Foucault as a by-product of Kantian modernity and inscribed within a Heideggerian ontotheology. By stressing the vitalist alternatives to this paradigm, the essay questions the hegemony of Western transcendentalism and proposes a naturalistic reorientation of Foucault's intellectual project.

  18. Foucault, Derrida e a História da Loucura: notas sobre uma polêmica Foucault, Derrida, and the history of madness: notes on a controversy

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    André de Faria Pereira Neto

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    Full Text Available A publicação do livro Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique (1961, de Michel Foucault, promoveu um debate entre o autor e o filósofo Jacques Derrida, durante os anos 60/70. Derrida criticou a proposta metodológica e a organização da História da Loucura, apresentadas por Foucault, no prefácio da primeira edição. Essa polêmica parece ter motivado o autor a retirar, da segunda edição, o prefácio que abria a primeira versão do livro. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar alguns pontos presentes nesta controvérsia. Além disso, ele apresenta uma agenda de pesquisa para o entendimento das razões que levaram Foucault a tomar tal atitude.The publication of the book Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique (1961, by Michel Foucault, sparked a debate between the author and philosopher Jacques Derrida during the 1960s and 70s. Derrida criticized the methodological proposal and organization of the History of Madness presented by Foucault in the foreword to the first edition. The controversy appears to have motivated the author to withdraw this same foreword from the second edition. The purpose of this article is to analyze some current points in this controversy. It also presents a research agenda for an understanding of the reasons leading Foucault to take this stance.

  19. Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, y los cuerpos e identidades críticas, subversivas y deconstructivas de la Intersexualidad

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    González Vázquez, Araceli

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Intersexuality is considered a critical, subversive and deconstructive tool for the categories of sex and gender, in particular from social constructivist theoretical positions well nurtured by post-estructuralist rethoric. The purpose of this article is to discuss the reception of Foucault’s thought in studies on Intersexuality, explain his concepts and how they are incorporated, and which ideas they contribute to destabilizing or reifying within the current debates.

    La Intersexualidad es considerada una herramienta de crítica, subversión y deconstrucción de las categorías sexo y género, singularmente desde posiciones ligadas al constructivismo social y muy nutridas por las retóricas postestructuralistas. La propuesta de este artículo es la de discutir la recepción del pensamiento de Michel Foucault en los estudios sobre la Intersexualidad, y explicar qué conceptos y cómo se incorporan, y qué ideas contribuyen a desestabilizar o reificar dentro de estos debates.

  20. Foucault's Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State

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    Hansen, Magnus Paulsen

    2015-01-01

    An essay on the review of works interpreting the lectures of Michel Foucault on neoliberalism is presented. It offers a history of neoliberalism as a way to reinvent the left and examines the way Foucault betrayed the left while resisting to be connected with a normative political programme...... or principle for a neoliberal stance. The author relates the risks in neoliberal thought for losing what is specific in definitive statements and the loss of neoliberal thought coherence within a reality....

  1. Foucault's Three Ways of Decentering the State

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    no interior” (Foucault, 2008: 90). In the stream of scholarship inspired by Foucault it has become an interpretative orthodoxy that the state should be viewed as decentered, without a unifying center, resting upon networks of mobile power relations. In this way, political decision making is delocalized......It is well known that Michel Foucault challenged the centrality of the state, advancing a view of the state as ‘decentered’. He said: “The state has no heart, as we well know, but not just in the sense that it has no feelings, either good or bad, but it has no heart in the sense that it has......, and sovereignty is dissolved in dispersed and mundane practices. Here, I wish to examine the three routes by which Foucault during the 1970s reached his renowned ‘decentered’ approach to the state. These routes never arrived at any ultimate conception of the state, since they were experimental explorations...

  2. Michel Foucault e il problema della genealogia

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    Full Text Available "Si j'étais prétentieux, je donnerais comme titre général à ce que je fais : généalogie de la morale." Dietro questa affermazione, rilasciata nel contesto colloquiale di un'intervista, è possibile scorgere il segno di una confessione intellettuale e il compendio di un pensiero. In primo luogo, allusivamente, rinvia alla figura di Nietzsche e alla traccia indelebile che il suo pensiero ha lasciato nella filosofia e nella ricerca di Foucault. In secondo luogo, autorizza a osservare nella riflessione foucaultiana la filigrana di quella genealogia che il presente lavoro si propone di affrontare come stile d'interrogazione filosofica.

  3. Two Silent Brothers. Althusser and Foucault at the Crossroads of Ideology

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    Full Text Available The article aims to reinterpret the relationship between Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault on the specific ground of the notion of "Ideology." If Foucault's critique addresses initially the alleged opposition between ideological discourse and scientific discourse, this does not seem to fade in the seventies, despite the convergence of Foucault's "microphysics of power"with Althusser's insistence on the "material" character of ideology. To explain the persistence of this comparison and of this tension the author shows how with it are involved highly problematic knots for the whole Foucault's thought: the status of representation and truth, the inner existence and temporality of capitalism and, in particular, the relationship between criticism and politics.

  4. Pesquisa e Metodologia em Michel Foucault

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    Full Text Available RESUMOEstuda-se contribuições teórico-metodológicas de Foucault, realçando seu uso de elementos metodológicos clássicos. O artigo se organiza em três eixos analíticos: o exame de fragmentos da obra desse autor, especialmente de seus Cursos; aproximações de sua perspectiva com a literatura contemporânea sobre pesquisa qualitativa; e a análise de textos nos quais ele explicita suas escolhas metodológicas. Acentua-se sua opção de estudar problemas a partir de "suas formas mais singulares e concretas". Explora-se o delineamento, concomitantemente clássico e inovador, de sua pesquisa derradeira da genealogia do sujeito moderno analisando as razões de suas escolhas metodológicas. Considera-se que a construção de problemas de pesquisa relevantes, associada ao trabalho detalhado e preciso, contribuiu para o impacto incisivo de sua obra.

  5. De late Foucault : vrijheid als zorg voor jezelf

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    Coeckelbergh, Mark

    2008-01-01

    Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was een van de meest populaire filosofen in de jaren zeventig en tachtig van de vorige eeuw. En ook nu nog inspireert hij velen. Waarom eigenlijk? Zijn het zijn boeken over waanzin en ziekte, gevangenis en seks? Is het zijn voor een academicus opmerkelijk spannende leven

  6. [Foucault, Derrida, and the history of madness: notes on a controversy].

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    Pereira Neto, A F

    1998-01-01

    The publication of the book Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la Folie à l'Age Classique (1961), by Michel Foucault, sparked a debate between the author and philosopher Jacques Derrida during the 1960s and 70s. Derrida criticized the methodological proposal and organization of the History of Madness presented by Foucault in the foreword to the first edition. The controversy appears to have motivated the author to withdraw this same foreword from the second edition. The purpose of this article is to analyze some current points in this controversy. It also presents a research agenda for an understanding of the reasons leading Foucault to take this stance.

  7. Foucault, Counselling and the Aesthetics of Existence

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    Peters, Michael A.

    2005-01-01

    Michel Foucault was drawn late in life to study the "arts of the self" in Greco-Roman culture as a basis, following Nietzsche, for what he called an "aesthetics of existence." By this, he meant a set of creative and experimental processes and techniques by which an individual turns him- or herself into a work of art. For Nietzsche, it was above…

  8. Beyond Intimaphobia: Object Lessons from Foucault and Sade

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    Greteman, Adam Joseph

    2014-01-01

    In this study I suggest ways of thinking through issues of intimacy that have emerged in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the USA. I propose a state of intimaphobia in education. However, I move beyond exposing this state of intimaphobia to offer particular readings of two philosophers of intimacy: Michel Foucault and the…

  9. Poder, resistencia y dominación en las Américas esclavistas: apostillas a Michel Foucault (paradojas y aporías

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    Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault's work: his understan-ding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, "Subject and power" (1982 and "The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom" (1984, this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century - and in dialogue with their symbolization in art.

  10. Biopolíticas da saúde: reflexões a partir de Michel Foucault, Agnes Heller e Hannah Arendt

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    Francisco Ortega

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é oferecer ferramentas conceituais que possam ajudar na reflexão acerca da questão das biopolíticas da saúde a partir da obra de Michel Foucault, Agnes Heller e Hannah Arendt. Para Foucault, desde o século XVIII, a vida biológica e a saúde da nação tornaram-se alvos fundamentais de um poder sobre a vida que enfatizava especialmente as noções de sexualidade, raça e degenerescência, cujo objetivo era a otimização da qualidade biológica das populações. Para Arendt, esse movimento de politização da vida é profundamente antipolítico. A vida passa a ocupar o vazio deixado pela decomposição do âmbito público. No caso de Agnes Heller, o antipolitismo do discurso biopolítico se manifesta na procura constante de legitimação quase científica. O pensamento de raça, gênero, saúde é um pensamento científico imitado que substitui a opinião pela verdade. Se a política é o campo do confronto das opiniões, do diálogo, da iniciativa, do novo, da espontaneidade e da ação em liberdade, o pensamento biopolítico legitimado cientificamente é o espaço da verdade, da certeza, da necessidade, do determinismo e da causalidade, no qual o diálogo é substituído por uma política da autoclausura, de amigos e inimigos, e a pluralidade de opiniões é reduzida a uma única opinião politicamente correta.

  11. Biopolíticas da saúde: reflexões a partir de Michel Foucault, Agnes Heller e Hannah Arendt

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    Francisco Ortega

    2004-02-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é oferecer ferramentas conceituais que possam ajudar na reflexão acerca da questão das biopolíticas da saúde a partir da obra de Michel Foucault, Agnes Heller e Hannah Arendt. Para Foucault, desde o século XVIII, a vida biológica e a saúde da nação tornaram-se alvos fundamentais de um poder sobre a vida que enfatizava especialmente as noções de sexualidade, raça e degenerescência, cujo objetivo era a otimização da qualidade biológica das populações. Para Arendt, esse movimento de politização da vida é profundamente antipolítico. A vida passa a ocupar o vazio deixado pela decomposição do âmbito público. No caso de Agnes Heller, o antipolitismo do discurso biopolítico se manifesta na procura constante de legitimação quase científica. O pensamento de raça, gênero, saúde é um pensamento científico imitado que substitui a opinião pela verdade. Se a política é o campo do confronto das opiniões, do diálogo, da iniciativa, do novo, da espontaneidade e da ação em liberdade, o pensamento biopolítico legitimado cientificamente é o espaço da verdade, da certeza, da necessidade, do determinismo e da causalidade, no qual o diálogo é substituído por uma política da autoclausura, de amigos e inimigos, e a pluralidade de opiniões é reduzida a uma única opinião politicamente correta.

  12. Michel Foucault and the genealogy as a criticism of the present

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    Selvino José Assmann

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    Full Text Available The main goal of this paper is to analyze the criticism to modernity that is in Foucault’s genealogy. First we discuss Focault’s analysis of Kant’s article on Aufklärung and Baudelaire’s concept of dandy. So, we focus gave emphasis the “truth analytic” and its ontextualization made by Foucault of the social role of an intellectual in the light of the great changes in knowledge and in the practices of power in the last decades. To conclude, we suggest that, by studying the Aufklärung investigating the excess of modern racionality, Foucault tries to reassess the possibilities of freedom practices, sustaining the criticism exercise as philosophical ethos. This is needed to redefine the governability and ethical and political commitments made by the agents in different social places.

  13. Foucault at School: Discipline, Education and Agency in "Harry Potter"

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    Wolosky, Shira

    2014-01-01

    The formative power of children's literature is both great and suspicious. As a resource of socialization, the construction and experience of children's literature can be seen as modes of disciplinary coercion such as Michel Foucault has anatomized. "Harry Potter", as a "craze" phenomenon, has attracted particular…

  14. Interpretar? Deslocar, multiplicar (Nietzsche, Foucault e o sentido em Deleuze

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    Annita Costa Malufe

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available O presente artigo discorre acerca das mudanças no conceito de sentido efetuadas por alguns pensamentos filosóficos que se deram na esteira da revolução operada por Friedrich Nietzsche; enfocaremos aqui sobretudo as filosofias de Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, a partir da ideia, proposta por Foucault, de uma “hermenêutica moderna”. O objetivo é destacar a problematização do ato de interpretar, tendo no horizonte os deslocamentos que essas novas posturas diante do sentido acarretam para a leitura crítica do texto literário no contemporâneo.

  15. Baudrillard vs. Foucault: revolving conceptions of power in foucaultian writings

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    Daniel de Oliveira Gomes

    2016-08-01

    Full Text Available This article aims at investigating, specifically, the critical fixation of author Jean Baudrillard against the idea of power as defended by Michel Foucault. The later – an exponent author from post-structuralism, often studied both by Literature and Law specialists – explored the concept of “micro-physical power”, which sees that all the legal or political discourses could not handle any longer all the possible practices of power acted upon the social subjects, broadening the concept of power in several publications and putting it in the dimension of a new approach. Baudrillard, on the other hand, considers power as a doomed value that is to disappear due to the volatility of politics. We tried to analyze the ideas in the discourse of Baudrillard in the book in which he debated with the ideas of Foucault, Oublier Foucault, in which there was an attempt of dismantling the literature by Foucault about power, explaining this literature as, itself, a spiral generator of power.

  16. Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

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    2017-01-01

    This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. ...

  17. [Plato psychiatrist, Foucault platonic].

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    Mathov, Nicolás

    2016-05-01

    This work explores the links between the concepts of "soul", "law" and "word" in Plato's work, in order to highlight the importance and the centrality of the philosophical-therapeutic dimension in the Greek philosopher's thought. In that way, this work pretends to show that "contemporary" problems usually discussed within "Human Sciences" in general, and Psychiatry in particular, should confront their knowledge with Plato's work, mainly due to the profound influence his ideas have had in our Greco-Christian culture. In that sense, and with that objective, this work also explores Michel Foucault's lucid and controversial interpretation of Plato.

  18. Biopolítica e direitos humanos em Foucault

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    Leon Farhi Neto

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available In this article we try to show the troublesome relation between biopolitcs, biopower and human rights in Michel Foucault. The notion of right is a classical notion, insofar as it pertains to the juridical conception of politics and to the techniques of sovereign power. On the other side, the idea of the human animal as human being appears only in Modernity, within the different dispositives that constitute what Foucault called the modern biopower. Therefore, talking of human rights one puts together the idea of right and the idea of human being, i.e. two notions belonging to two historically distinct techniques of power. In the awareness of this distinction, one has to question why Foucault, in face of what was going on in his days, did nevertheless appeal – against governments – to the rights of those who are governed. Classical right may have nothing to do with biopolitics; however with regard to the so-called human rights we cannot claim the same.

  19. Putting Foucault to Work: Understanding Power in a Rural School

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    Freie, Carrie; Eppley, Karen

    2014-01-01

    This case study uses the work of Michel Foucault to challenge the normalization of the principal's role and to examine the complex power relations of a rural school and community in the midst of a closure/consolidation and subsequent reopening as a charter school. In so doing, we move beyond analysis of best practices and toward a more theoretical…

  20. Vidas célebres, vidas minúsculas: Vasari, Foucault, Michon

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    Kelvin Falcão

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available O primeiro movimento deste ensaio consiste no esboço de um percurso breve a partir da obra de Michel Foucault, rastreando o uso do significante “vidas” em alguns textos do autor francês. Dois eixos são delineados a partir daí: o primeiro deles diz respeito à leitura foucaultiana das “vidas célebres” de Giorgio Vasari; o segundo diz respeito às “vidas infames”, que Foucault rastreia nos arquivos policiais franceses. Em seguida, inicia-se um desvio em direção à literatura do século XX, considerando o envolvimento da ficção com a emergência da discursividade biográfica, sua ressonância política e o emprego crítico, mais uma vez, do significante “vidas”. Com esse contexto de fundo estabelecido, o ensaio conclui-se com uma análise de Vidas minúsculas, do escritor francês Pierre Michon. The first movement of this essay is to outline a brief path from the work of Michel Foucault, tracking the use of the signifier “lives” in some texts of the French author. Two axes are delineated from there, the first one concerns Foucault’s reading of “renowed lives” by Giorgio Vasari; the second concerns the “infamous lives”, which Foucault traces from the French police files. Then begins a shift toward twentiethcentury literature, considering the involvement of fiction with the emergence of biographical discourse, its political resonance and, again, the critical use of the signifier “lives”. With this background context established, the essay concludes with a analysis of Small Lives, by French writer Pierre Michon.

  1. Zur Bedeutung von Michel Foucault für die heutige Psychiatrie

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    Vandermeersch, P.M.G.P.

    1997-01-01

    M. Foucault´s book on the history of madness has mostly been received as an anti-psychiatric critique of the great confinement. Thus, the original meaning of the book has been discarded: a critique of the psychiatric practice from the point a view of history of science and philosophy of culture.

  2. Interrogating discourse: the application of Foucault's methodological discussion to specific inquiry.

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    Fadyl, Joanna K; Nicholls, David A; McPherson, Kathryn M

    2013-09-01

    Discourse analysis following the work of Michel Foucault has become a valuable methodology in the critical analysis of a broad range of topics relating to health. However, it can be a daunting task, in that there seems to be both a huge number of possible approaches to carrying out this type of project, and an abundance of different, often conflicting, opinions about what counts as 'Foucauldian'. This article takes the position that methodological design should be informed by ongoing discussion and applied as appropriate to a particular area of inquiry. The discussion given offers an interpretation and application of Foucault's methodological principles, integrating a reading of Foucault with applications of his work by other authors, showing how this is then applied to interrogate the practice of vocational rehabilitation. It is intended as a contribution to methodological discussion in this area, offering an interpretation of various methodological elements described by Foucault, alongside specific application of these aspects.

  3. Brazilian prison gangs in the light of Foucault and Goffman

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    Samuel Araújo Alves dos Santos

    2015-10-01

    Full Text Available Within the approaches to public safety, and beyond it, about the issue of incarceration, Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman are references that usually are part of the dialogue. This article is an attempt to illustrate, through the concepts of total institution and disciplinary society, as certain theories should not be used in ‘pure’ way to evoke and denote aspects of a complex reality. For this initiative, the Brazilian reality is used as a starting point to understand the institutional dynamics of prisons, revealing the existence of emerging systems, not necessarily commune with the points made by Foucault (1999 and Goffman (2001.

  4. Caring potentials in the shadows of power, correction, and discipline - Forensic psychiatric care in the light of the work of Michel Foucault.

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    Hörberg, Ulrica; Dahlberg, Karin

    2015-01-01

    The aim of this article is to shed light on contemporary forensic psychiatric care through a philosophical examination of the empirical results from two lifeworld phenomenological studies from the perspective of patients and carers, by using the French philosopher Michel Foucault's historical-philosophical work. Both empirical studies were conducted in a forensic psychiatric setting. The essential results of the two empirical studies were reexamined in a phenomenological meaning analysis to form a new general structure in accordance with the methodological principles of Reflective Lifeworld Research. This general structure shows how the caring on the forensic psychiatric wards appears to be contradictory, in that it is characterized by an unreflective (non-)caring attitude and contributes to an inconsistent and insecure existence. The caring appears to have a corrective approach and thus lacks a clear caring structure, a basic caring approach that patients in forensic psychiatric services have a great need of. To gain a greater understanding of forensic psychiatric caring, the new empirical results were further examined in the light of Foucault's historical-philosophical work. The philosophical examination is presented in terms of the three meaning constituents: Caring as correction and discipline, The existence of power, and Structures and culture in care. The philosophical examination illustrates new meaning nuances of the corrective and disciplinary nature of forensic psychiatric care, its power, and how this is materialized in caring, and what this does to the patients. The examination reveals embedded difficulties in forensic psychiatric care and highlights a need to revisit the aim of such care.

  5. La subjetivación política más allá de la esfera pública: Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière y Simone Weil

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    Emilse Galvis

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Se afirma que la subjetivación política no puede pensarse al margen de las manifestaciones éticas, artísticas y espirituales de la política, en cuanto que despliegan de distintas maneras unos efectos sobre lo que es asumido como común, y reconfiguran nuevas formas de concebir el sujeto político en caminos inusuales de la subjetivación. Se problematiza la subjetivación política a partir de tres lecturas: la crítica, con base en los planteamientos de Michel Foucault; una cierta interpretación de las prácticas artísticas, en Jacques Rancière; y una concepción de la espiritualidad y la política a la luz de los planteamientos de Simone Weil.

  6. (Re)considering Foucault for science education research: considerations of truth, power and governance

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    Bazzul, Jesse; Carter, Lyn

    2017-06-01

    This article is a response to Anna Danielsonn, Maria Berge, and Malena Lidar's paper, "Knowledge and power in the technology classroom: a framework for studying teachers and students in action", and an appeal to science educators of all epistemological orientations to (re)consider the work of Michel Foucault for research in science education. Although this essay does not come close to outlining the importance of Foucault's work for science education, it does present a lesser-known side of Foucault as an anti-polemical, realist, modern philosopher interested in the way objective knowledge is entangled with governance in modernity. This latter point is important for science educators, as it is the intersection of objective knowledge and institutional imperatives that characterizes the field(s) of science education. Considering the lack of engagement with philosophy and social theory in science education, this paper offers one of many possible readings of Foucault (we as authors have also published different readings of Foucault) in order to engage crucial questions related to truth, power, governance, discourse, ethics and education.

  7. The formation of ‘policy truths’: Foucault and social policy discourse

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    Discuss current approaches to policy analysis Illustrate an alternative method for policy analysis influenced by the theoretical concepts of Michel Foucault Briefly analyse current research which has focused upon education policy and education reform in the United Kingdom (UK) Introduce the concept of ‘policy truths’ and explain how this idea can aid in the critique of neoliberal policies and neoliberal governmentality

  8. The ethics of Foucault and Ricoeur: an underrepresented discussion in nursing.

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    Flaming, Don

    2006-09-01

    Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault enjoy a privileged status in nursing academia as two thinkers who influence both nursing research and philosophical explorations of nursing practice. Most nurse authors, however, focus only on the earlier works of these two philosophers and, for example, base qualitative research methodologies on Foucault's genealogy and Ricoeur's hermeneutics. In their later years, both these writers talk more explicitly about being an ethical self. Ideas from their earlier writing is evident in their writing on ethics and both writers could not discuss ethics without also exploring their ideas of the self and the other. I suggest that some of their thoughts on ethics connect with or complement each other quite well. I will first give an overview of Foucault's ethics, self and the other, and then do the same with Ricoeur's thought. In the third part of the paper I will describe how Foucault and Ricoeur complement each other, and conclude the paper by briefly suggesting how these writers influence my own practice as a nurse educator.

  9. (Re)Considering Foucault for Science Education Research: Considerations of Truth, Power and Governance

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    Bazzul, Jesse; Carter, Lyn

    2017-01-01

    This article is a response to Anna Danielsonn, Maria Berge, and Malena Lidar's paper, "Knowledge and power in the technology classroom: a framework for studying teachers and students in action," and an appeal to science educators of all epistemological orientations to (re)consider the work of Michel Foucault for research in science…

  10. Foucault educador: uma arte da escrita e um modelo de autoformação

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    Hubert Vincent

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available A preocupação em homenagear Michel Foucault, tanto sua pessoa quanto sua obra, pode enveredar por inúmeras vias. Eu, aqui, me ative a duas. A primeira concerne ao próprio estilo de Foucault, mais especificamente seu estilo de exposição. Foucault me parece ter, especialmente em seus cursos no Collège de France, uma escrita ou estilo de exposição muito generoso. Procurei apreender essa generosidade e seus traços constitutivos. A segunda via concerne a um problema ou uma noção: a autoformação ou a prática da autoformação. Sobre ela, as análises efetuadas por Foucault acerca de certas técnicas de leitura e escrita herdadas da filosofia helenística podem, me parece, lançar uma luz original.

  11. Developing Foucault's Discourse Analytic Methodology

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    Rainer Diaz-Bone

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available A methodological position for a FOUCAULTian discourse analysis is presented. A sequence of analytical steps is introduced and an illustrating example is offered. It is emphasized that discourse analysis has to discover the system-level of discursive rules and the deeper structure of the discursive formation. Otherwise the analysis will be unfinished. Michel FOUCAULTs work is theoretically grounded in French structuralism and (the so called post-structuralism. In this paper, post-structuralism is not conceived as a means for overcoming of structuralism, but as a way of critically continuing the structural perspective. In this way, discursive structures can be related to discursive practices and the concept of structure can be disclosed (e. g. to inter-discourse or DERRIDAs concept of structurality. In this way, the structural methodology is continued and radicalized, but not given up. In this paper, FOUCAULTs theory is combined with the works of Michel PÊCHEUX and (especially for the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of culture Pierre BOURDIEU. The practice of discourse analysis is theoretically grounded. This practice can be conceived as a reflexive coupling of deconstruction and reconstruction in the material to be analyzed. This methodology therefore can be characterized as a reconstructive qualitative methodology. At the end of the article, forms of discourse analysis are criticized that do not intend to recover the system level of discursive rules and that do not intend to discover the deeper structure of the discursive formation (i. e. episteme, socio-episteme. These forms merely are commentaries of discourses (not their analyses, they remain phenomenological and are therefore: pre-structuralist. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs060168

  12. Foucault, cárcel y mujer: el conflicto de la reincidencia (Foucault, jail and women: the conflict of recidivism

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    Francisco Jiménez Bautista

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available Resumen: En este artículo pretendemos verificar la pregunta que Michel Foucault señaló dentro del sistema penal y particularmente en el sistema de prisiones (en nuestro caso el de España, ver si los individuos que han pasado por el sistema penal permanecen marcados hasta el fin de sus días. De forma que están colocados en una situación tal que ya no se les devuelve del lugar de donde habían venido, es decir, no se le devuelve al lugar del proletariado. Igualmente, es significativo que los valores de la crisis económica incrementan el número de reincidencias y violencia estructural hacia las presas, mujeres víctimas de las crisis de globalización.Abstract: This article aims to verify Michel Foucault pointed question in the penal system and particularly in the prison system (in our case of Spain, see if people who have gone through the criminal justice system remain marked until the end of their days. So, they are placed in a position where returns are no longer the place where they came from, namely, not returned to the place of the proletariat. Alike, it is significant that the values of the economic crisis increase the number of criminal recidivism and structural violence toward prisoners, women victims of the crisis of globalization.

  13. HISTORIES OF INFAMY: FROM BORGES TO FOUCAULT

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    Full Text Available Starting from the writings of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jorge Luis Borges, especially those dedicated to the theme of infamy, this essay investigates the course of this significant, infamy, both in criticism and in fiction, focusing especially on the political connotations of the term . The hypothesis is that the infamy appears in the texts as a vantage point for the observation of cracks in the building of contemporary cultural archive, as it undermines the possibility of a triumphalist discourse of history. In the instance of infamy history is always plural.

  14. Foucault and the Architecture of Surveillance: Creating Regimes of Power in Schools, Shrines, and Society

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    Piro, Joseph M.

    2008-01-01

    Michel Foucault's critical studies concerning regimes of power are of special interest when applied to architecture. In particular, he warned of the hazards of building surveillance into architectural structures for the purpose of monitoring people and took as his historical exemplar English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon," a structure…

  15. A Paradox of Freedom in "Becoming Oneself through Learning": Foucault's Response to His Educators

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    Stickney, Jeff

    2013-01-01

    In his later lectures, published as "The Hermeneutics of the Subject," Michel Foucault surveys different modalities of obtaining "truth" about one's self and the world: from Socrates to the Cynics, Stoics, Epicureans and early church writers. Genealogically tracing this opposition between knowing "self and…

  16. COMO NÃO LER FOUCAULT E DELEUZE? OU: PARA LER FOUCAULT E DELEUZE POLITICAMENTE

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    Rodrigo Nunes

    2015-07-01

    Full Text Available O artigo discute como interpretar a dimensão política da obra de Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze (com ou sem seu parceiro de escritura Félix Guattari, contrapondo-se a tendências e clichês interpretativos que são comuns tanto a alguns críticos quanto a alguns partidários destes autores. Em particular, questiona a ideia de que, para ambos, haveria uma relação de exclusividade mútua entre “micro” e “macropolítica”, tema que desenvolve em direções conexas – no tocante, por exemplo, a forma como ética e política se articulam no pensamento dos dois.

  17. LA PERIODICIDAD Y EL USO DE LA DISCONTINUIDAD EN LA OBRA DE MICHEL FOUCAULT

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    Fernando Beresñak

    2011-05-01

    Full Text Available Foucault realizará sus preguntas histórico-filosóficas tratando de construir unaespecie particular de relato histórico que ponga en suspenso al hombre como sujeto privilegiadodel mismo (poniendo también en suspenso a sus objetos de estudio. Para evitar construir -o dapor construida- de antemano la formación discursiva de sus objetos de estudio, así como de suspropias temporalidades, Foucault tratará de hacer que el mismo objeto de estudio determine supropia periodización. Así, construirá su metodología de manera tal que el objeto determine supropia modalidad de permanencia: a veces con continuidades, a veces con rupturas, a veces condesapariciones, otras con transformaciones, y otras en las que ni siquiera exist

  18. Contribuições de Michel Foucault para analisar documentos e arquivos na judicialização/jurisdicionalização

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    Flávia Cristina Silveira Lemos

    2014-09-01

    Full Text Available Nesse artigo pretendemos ressaltar a produção histórica encontrada em arquivos e documentos, bem como as práticas de generalização de uma sociedade punitiva no âmbito das relações entre normas e leis, e também do poder, direito e verdade, de acordo com estudos de Michel Foucault a respeito da soberania jurídica, da disciplina, da biopolítica e da segurança como dispositivo político de governo das condutas. Na atualidade o uso dos documentos e de arquivos para criminalizar, encarcerar e segregar os desviantes sociais é uma prática cotidiana, e funciona pelo dispositivo de confissão nas adjacências do Poder Judiciário, operando as noções de risco e perigo, em termos de biopolítica. Já a escrita disciplinar aciona a constituição de casos e dossiês, por meio dos exames, das observações vigilantes e da sanção normalizadora, em uma microeconomia penal. é relevante criticar essas práticas e pensar campos de possibilidade de resistência a essas escritas de uma memória das infâmias na judicialização da vida.

  19. Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

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    Iswandi Syahputra

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice.

  20. [Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality].

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    Gomes, Benjamim

    2005-01-01

    The article presents the results of a doctoral dissertation defended at the Universidad de Salamanca, based on Foucault's final decade of writings. If Foucault's goal in writing The History of Sexuality was to fashion a genealogy of ethics, my goal in analyzing this book, along with his other writings, is to demonstrate his last contribution to the history of medicine. He moves from a conception of power over others towards a conception of power over oneself, an exclusive terrain of ancient Greek morality. As a thinker who tries to understand today's problems by going to their roots, Foucault develops less a history than a philosophy of history. Considered an anti-humanist, he leaves us with a portrait of a wholly ethical-humanistic medicine.

  1. ESTRUTURALISTA, PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA OU PÓS-MODERNO? APROPRIAÇÕES DO PENSAMENTO DE MICHEL FOUCAULT POR PESQUISADORES DA ÁREA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO NO BRASIL

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    Alessandra de Sá Mello Costa

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    Full Text Available O presente artigo busca identificar as aproximações e os afastamentos entre as abordagens estruturalistas, pós-estruturalistas e pós-modernistas por meio da investigação das categorizações epistemológicas do pensamento de Michel Foucault feitas por pesquisadores da área de administração no Brasil. Os procedimentos metodológicos de investigação foram divididos em dois momentos. Primeiro, foram pesquisados os artigos publicados nos últimos dez anos nos anais de dois dos mais representativos encontros científicos da academia de administração no Brasil: o Encontro Nacional da ANPAD (EnANPAD, encontro anual, e o Encontro de Estudos Organizacionais (EnEO, que ocorre de dois em dois anos. A pesquisa foi feita nos artigos que referenciavam Michel Foucault no título ou no escopo do resumo. No que diz respeito ao número de ocorrências encontradas, os resultados obtidos totalizaram 41 artigos. Em um segundo momento, após a identificação dos artigos, estes foram lidos e analisados de forma a identificar como Michel Foucault é categorizado por cada um dos pesquisadores em questão. Os resultados obtidos na pesquisa levam a crer que as questões epistemológicas ainda não fazem parte do corpo de preocupações de grande parte dos pesquisadores brasileiros na área de administração. Tal ausência apresenta-se, ao mesmo tempo, significativa e preocupante. Significativa, porque mostra que os pesquisadores brasileiros não estão preocupados com o contexto teórico de produção e disseminação das idéias, incorporando-as como verdades em suas pesquisas de forma descontextualizada e acrítica. E preocupante, uma vez que a luta por poder no campo das idéias não significa apenas um embate em torno dos melhores postos acadêmicos, posições institucionais e governamentais de financiamento ou um lugar de destaque nos comitês editoriais dos periódicos mais influentes. O perigo reside em uma dimensão complementar e inerente a essa

  2. Parrēsia ed exemplum. La parrēsia e i regimi aleturgici dell’exemplum a partire da L’ermeneutica del soggetto di Michel Foucault

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    Orazio Irrera

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available Questo articolo cerca di esplorare il rapporto tra parrēsia ed exemplum negli ultimi Corsi al Collège de France di Michel Foucault. A partire da L’ermeneutica del soggetto, viene analizzato il campo semantico e pratico relativo alla direzione di coscienza stoica ed epicurea, in cui Foucault oppone la parrēsia all’adulazione e alla retorica per collocarla invece all’interno di un’importante serie di concetti: la paradosis (la trasmissione dei discorsi di verità, il kairos (il momento giusto, la circostanza opportuna e l’exemplum definito come «il cuore della parrēsia» poiché esso assicura l’adæquatio tra il soggetto di enunciazione e il soggetto di comportamento che si conforma alla verità espressa dal primo. Successivamente, viene posta l’attenzione sul legame tra parrēsia ed exemplum nell’ultimo Corso, Il coraggio della verità, per mettere in evidenza un’importante riconfigurazione all’interno della parrēsia cinica, in cui l’esempio appare come una categoria etica basata sulla permanenza e sull’identità a sé. Pertanto, esso si rivela inadeguato per questo regime aleturgico della parrēsia cinica, che invece consiste in un atteggiamento etico sperimentale, una mise à l’épreuve cui sottomettere la vita per arrivare a una trasformazione politica del mondo attraverso una continua e scandalosa provocazione degli altri, in grado di mettere in discussione la percezione di norme culturali e di abitudini consolidate.

  3. Foucault, Derrida e a História da Loucura: notas sobre uma polêmica

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    André de Faria Pereira Neto

    1998-01-01

    A publicação do livro Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique (1961), de Michel Foucault, promoveu um debate entre o autor e o filósofo Jacques Derrida, durante os anos 60/70. Derrida criticou a proposta metodológica e a organização da História da Loucura, apresentadas por Foucault, no prefácio da primeira edição. Essa polêmica parece ter motivado o autor a retirar, da segunda edição, o prefácio que abria a primeira versão do livro. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar alguns ...

  4. Genealogy and the Consecration of the Biopolitics Term. Interchanges Between Esposito, Arendt and Foucault

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    Lara Emanuele da Luz

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available The present article intends, on the one hand, to study the genealogy of the term biopolitics, passing through the term bíos. To support this reflection, the first part of the book by Roberto Esposito, Bíos, will be used. The term biopolitics undergoes a mutation since its first use in 1905. On the other hand, based on the data presented in the first part of the chapter, an analysis of the consecration of the term made by Michel Foucault will be made. In the course of the article, besides Foucault and Esposito, a connection will be made to the Arendtian work

  5. Errant life, molecular biology, and biopower: Canguilhem, Jacob, and Foucault.

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    Talcott, Samuel

    2014-01-01

    This paper considers the theoretical circumstances that urged Michel Foucault to analyse modern societies in terms of biopower. Georges Canguilhem's account of the relations between science and the living forms an essential starting point for Foucault's own later explorations, though the challenges posed by the molecular revolution in biology and François Jacob's history of it allowed Foucault to extend and transform Canguilhem's philosophy of error. Using archival research into his 1955-1956 course on "Science and Error," I show that, for Canguilhem, it is inauthentic to treat a living being as an error, even if living things are capable of making errors in the domain of knowledge. The emergent molecular biology in the 1960s posed a grave challenge, however, since it suggested that individuals could indeed be errors of genetic reproduction. The paper discusses how Canguilhem and Foucault each responded to this by examining, among other texts, their respective reviews of Jacob's The Logic of the Living. For Canguilhem this was an opportunity to reaffirm the creativity of life in the living individual, which is not a thing to be evaluated, but the source of values. For Foucault, drawing on Jacob's work, this was the opportunity to develop a transformed account of valuation by posing biopower as the DNA of society. Despite their disagreements, the paper examines these three authors as different iterations of a historical epistemology attuned to errancy, error, and experimentation.

  6. La vida como concepto político: una lectura de Foucault y Deleuze

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    Marina Garcés

    2005-05-01

    Full Text Available La relación entre vida y política ha adquirido centralidad teórica y práctica a lo largo de todo el s.XX. Hoy es el eje de todos los análisis filosóficos, políticos y económicos que giran entorno a la cuestión del biopoder o la biopolítica. En este artículo se propone una lectura de algunos de los principales textos de Michel Foucault y de Gilles Deleuze donde la reflexión sobre la vida adquiere una dimensión política: para pensar la resistencia, en el caso de Michel Foucault, para pensar la liberación de un acontecimiento para Gilles Deleuze. Las construcciones ontológicas que articulan son distintas, pero se despliegan en la complicidad de un pensamiento amigo que tiene en vistas la pregunta por la posibilidad de pensar ?de otra manera?, de ?escribir para un pueblo que falta?. En los dos casos abordar el concepto de vida como concepto político será la clave para entender la propuesta.

  7. Research integrity and rights of indigenous peoples: appropriating Foucault's critique of knowledge/power.

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    Swazo, Norman K

    2005-09-01

    In this paper I appropriate the philosophical critique of Michel Foucault as it applies to the engagement of Western science and indigenous peoples in the context of biomedical research. The science of population genetics, specifically as pursued in the Human Genome Diversity Project, is the obvious example to illustrate (a) the contraposition of modern science and 'indigenous science', (b) the tendency to depreciate and marginalize indigenous knowledge systems, and (c) the subsumption of indigenous moral preferences in the juridical armature of international human rights law. I suggest that international bioethicists may learn from Foucault's critique, specifically of the need for vigilance about the knowledge/power relation expressed by the contraposition of modern science and 'indigeneity'.

  8. Foucault's contributions for understanding power relations in British classical political economy

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    Danielle Guizzo

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    Full Text Available This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in constructing new technologies of power. Michel Foucault drew attention to a change that political economists promoted concerning the role of the state, which has been overlooked by historians of economic thought. This paper explores the main arguments provided by the most important British political economists of the 18th and 19th centuries on what concerns population management, State's role and economic dynamics in order to examine Foucault's considerations. Although British classical political economy consolidated the mechanism of markets and economic individuality, thus creating a system of truth that changed economic norms and practices, its discourse also established a political conduct that was responsible for creating mechanisms of control that disseminated new forms of power relations.

  9. Regímenes de poder y tecnologías de la imagen. Foucault y los estudios visuales

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    León Mantilla, Christian Manuel

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    Este ensayo analiza los legados del pensamiento de Michel Foucault para el estudio de las prácticas visuales, la mirada y las tecnologías de la imagen. A partir la recepción de Foucault en el campo de los estudios visuales, me interesa reflexionar sobre cómo la imagen y la mirada se inscriben dentro de una red de relaciones, saberes, tecnologías, normativas e instituciones que develan formas de operación del poder y de construcción de los sujetos. Para empezar, pongo en diálogo conceptos como...

  10. Parrhesia e forma-di-vita. Soggettivazione e desoggettivazione in Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben

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    Stefano Marchesoni

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available Nei suoi libri recenti sotto il titolo principale "Homo sacer", Agamben si concentra sul concetto di forma-di-vita. Con questo articolo vorrei fornire una spiegazione del significato di questo concetto, sostenendo che le sue origini si possono far risalire alle "Vite degli uomini infami" di Foucault.

  11. Corpo e Alma em Foucault: Postulados para uma Metodologia da Psicologia

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    Fernando de Almeida Silveira

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Michel Foucault destaca o corpo como expressão de poderes e de saberes que se articulam estrategicamente na história da sociedade ocidental. O corpo é, simultaneamente, agente e peça dentro de um jogo de forças presente em toda a rede social, que o torna depositário de marcas e de sinais que nele se inscrevem nesses embates, os quais, por sua vez, têm na corporeidade seu "campo de prova". E a alma surge como instrumento de atuação dos poderes/saberes sobre o corpo, no processo de constituição do corpo histórico dos sujeitos. O objetivo deste trabalho é desenvolver postulados sobre o corpo e a alma em Foucault, para o estudo e a prática da Psicologia.

  12. Music critic Gustav Michel

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    Vasić Aleksandar N.

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    Full Text Available The writers whose real vocation was not music left significant traces in the history of Serbian music critics and essayism of the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Numerous authors, literary historians theoreticians and critics, jurists and theatre historians, wrote successfully on music in Serbian daily newspapers, literary and other magazines, until the Second World War. This study is devoted to Gustav Michel (1868 - 1926, one of the music amateurs who ought to be remembered in the history of Serbian music critics. Gustav Michel was a pharmacist by vocation. He ran a private pharmacy in Belgrade all his life. But he was a musician as well. He played the viola in the second (in chronological order of foundation Serbian String Quartet. The ensemble mostly consisted of amateurs, and it performed standard pieces of chamber music (W. A. Mozart L. v. Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, A. Dvořžak. These musicians had performed public concerts in Belgrade since 1900 up until Michel’s death. Belgrade music critics prised the performances of this string ensemble highly. Gustav Michel was also a music critic. Until now only seven articles, published by this author between 1894 and 1903, in Order (Red, Folk Newspaper (Narodne novine and Serbian Literary Magazine (Srpski književni glasnik have been found. Michel’s preserved articles unambiguously prove that their author had a solid knowledge of music theory and history, the knowledge that exceeded amateurism. Nevertheless, Michel did not burden his first critics with expert language of musicology. Later on, in Serbian Literary Magazine, the magazine which left enough room for music, Michel penetrated more into musical terminology, thus educating slowly forming Serbian concert-going public. The analysis of Michel’s texts showed that he was not, in contrast to the majority of professional music critics, an opponent of virtuosity. Gentle and liberal, he did not

  13. Foucault's "fearless speech" and the transformation and mentoring of medical students

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    Papadimos Thomas J

    2008-04-01

    Full Text Available Abstract In his six 1983 lectures published under the title, Fearless Speech (2001, Michel Foucault developed the theme of free speech and its relation to frankness, truth-telling, criticism, and duty. Derived from the ancient Greek word parrhesia, Foucault's analysis of free speech is relevant to the mentoring of medical students. This is especially true given the educational and social need to transform future physicians into able citizens who practice a fearless freedom of expression on behalf of their patients, the public, the medical profession, and themselves in the public and political arena. In this paper, we argue that Foucault's understanding of free speech, or parrhesia, should be read as an ethical response to the American Medical Association's recent educational effort, Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME: Recommendations for change in the system of medical education (2007. In this document, the American Medical Association identifies gaps in medical education, emphasizing the need to enhance health system safety and quality, to improve education in training institutions, and to address the inadequacy of physician preparedness in new content areas. These gaps, and their relationship to the ITME goal of promoting excellence in patient care by implementing reform in the US system of medical education, call for a serious consideration and use of Foucault's parrhesia in the way that medical students are trained and mentored.

  14. Place, Non-Place, Multi-Place and the (Non)Possibilities of Identity: Philosophical, Social, and Communicational Aspects

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    2016-01-01

    Michel Foucault in the text “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” wrote that “the present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space”. Space, place, and territories are social productions. Territory is a polysemic concept. Place is “events” created by territories, fluid areas of control produced by territorial negotiation (horizontal dynamics) and negotiations between places (vertical dynamics). Space produces places and is produced by places. Moreover, space, place and territor...

  15. Social Exclusion/Inclusion: Foucault's Analytics of Exclusion, the Political Ecology of Social Inclusion and the Legitimation of Inclusive Education

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    Peters, Michael A.; Besley, Tina A. C.

    2014-01-01

    This article offers a broad philosophical and historical background to the dyad of social exclusion/inclusion by examining the analytics and politics of exclusion first by reference to Michel Foucault who studies the modern history of exclusion and makes it central to his approach in understanding the development of modern institutions of emerging…

  16. Jogos de linguagem/jogos de verdade: de Wittgenstein a Foucault

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    Elza Ibrahim

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available This article discusses the constitution of the subject through the truth games and the language games problematized, respectively, by Michel Foucault and Ludwig Wittgenstein, taking as a conducting wire the implications of language in the practices produced in a psychiatric hospital with the human being considered not to be regularly punished. Therefore, we present the objectivist vision of reality and the representational language vision as opposed to the constructivist view of reality and the pragmatic language itself. According to this latter view, the reality is produced by the language through the language games which are historically contextualized. Thus, we are talking about unique subjects. In this context, we bring to the discussion the notion of truth problematized by Foucault as a field of possibilities, who thinks it is so only in the contingency of history that the subject is constituted: as the language, he is the product of multiple social practices.

  17. Foucault y la antropología filosófica: una actitud transgresora

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    Alejandro Chuca

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo busca demostrar la relación de Michel Foucault con la antropología filosófica. En una primera instancia, se dará cuenta del intento de este autor de plantear una filosofía antiantropológica que logre pensar a los sujetos como formas y no como substancias, alejada de una mirada esencialista. En una segunda instancia, se pondrá en cuestión esta propuesta de Foucault a partir de una hipótesis propia en la cual pensamos que él no deja de tener una definición de lo que el hombre es. Con su estilo propio y diferenciador, pensamos que el pensador francés establece una antropología en la que el hombre es entendido como un ser potencial capaz de asumir diversas formas a priori indeterminadas.

  18. Power in Bourdieu and Foucault: considerations about symbolic power and disciplinary power

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    Tiago Barros Rosa

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    Full Text Available This article aims to present some of conceptions about power, which are present in the thoughts of two contemporary classics from Social Science: Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. Most specifically, we will analyze the foundations of the notions of symbolic power and disciplinary power, developed, respectively, on their work. Despite the theoretical and methodological differences in both authors, we attend to approach the distinct notions of power in their scientific projects and to confront them to the currently dominant tendency, whose fundamental assumption are supported by the Weberian theory. The idea of imposition of will, as discussed in Weber’s classic formulation of power, brings in itself, indelibly, the awareness, calculation and intentionality by the social actors. Both Foucault and Bordieu, the individuals - subjects and social agents – are conditioned and constrained by external relation and forces, which are often not consciously perceived.

  19. THE MEDICAL AND SOCIAL MODELS OF DISABILITY FROM THE MEANINGS OF SEGREGATION AND INCLUSION IN MICHEL FOUCAULT’S AND MARTHA NUSSBAUM’S DISCOURSES

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    Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann

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    Full Text Available First, this paper will approach the meanings of segregation (or exclusion, integration and inclusion grounded on the interpretation of several provisions of key international documents. Secondly, it intends to overcome the legal analysis and examine Michel Foucault’s and Martha Nussbaum’s discourses on disabilities. Michel Foucault, by means of a historical criticism, focuses his analysis on the medical model of segregation (or exclusion while Martha Nussbaum proposes a social model that intends to be more inclusive of persons with disabilities. The medical model of integration will not be tackled in this paper.

  20. Ética y medicina en Michel Foucault: la dimensión humanística de la medicina a partir de una genealogía de la moral Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality

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    Benjamim Gomes

    2005-12-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo presenta una tesis doctoral leída en la Universidad de Salamanca y basada en los escritos de la última década de Foucault. Si escribiendo la Historia de la sexualidad su objetivo fue hacer una genealogía de la ética, analizándola, junto con los demás escritos suyos, mi objetivo es enseñar su última aportación a la historia de la medicina. Él parte de una concepción de poder sobre los demás hacia una concepción de poder sobre uno mismo, espacio exclusivo de la antigua moral griega. Como pensador que busca comprender los problemas de hoy yendo a sus raíces, más que historia Foucault hace filosofía de la historia. Considerado un antihumanista, él nos deja el retrato de una medicina absolutamente ético-humanística.The article presents the results of a doctoral dissertation defended at the Universidad de Salamanca, based on Foucault's final decade of writings. If Foucault's goal in writing The History of Sexuality was to fashion a genealogy of ethics, my goal in analyzing this book, along with his other writings, is to demonstrate his last contribution to the history of medicine. He moves from a conception of power over others towards a conception of power over oneself, an exclusive terrain of ancient Greek morality. As a thinker who tries to understand today's problems by going to their roots, Foucault develops less a history than a philosophy of history. Considered an anti-humanist, he leaves us with a portrait of a wholly ethical-humanistic medicine.

  1. [Medical empiricism from one myth to another. A critical reading of Foucault's Birth of Clinic].

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    de Calan, Ronan

    2013-01-01

    The new history of the clinic, developed mainly after the publication of Othmar Keel's L'avènement de la médecine clinique moderne en Europe, 1750-1815 in 2001, invites the scholars to turn upside down the chronology adopted by Michel Foucault in his classic Birth of the Clinic. This paper investigates the philosophical consequences of this chronological displacement, showing that the medical empiricism of the clinic cannot have the characteristics attributed by Foucault. If the myth of the purity of such empiricism cannot be taken seriously anymore thanks to Foucault, is has been substituted by the myth of the creation of the clinic on the basis of enlightened empiricism. The clinic is, however, older than empiricism à la Condillac. It refers to an earlier medical empiricism developed in the 17th century which in its turn allowed for Condillac's philosophy. The clinic had in fact to choose between an elder medical empiricism and a new chemical empirism that appeared in the late 17th century. But the clinic was not a creation of the Enlightenment.

  2. Corpo e Alma em Foucault: Postulados para uma Metodologia da Psicologia

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    Michel Foucault destaca o corpo como expressão de poderes e de saberes que se articulam estrategicamente na história da sociedade ocidental. O corpo é, simultaneamente, agente e peça dentro de um jogo de forças presente em toda a rede social, que o torna depositário de marcas e de sinais que nele se inscrevem nesses embates, os quais, por sua vez, têm na corporeidade seu "campo de prova". E a alma surge como instrumento de atuação dos poderes/saberes sobre o corpo, no processo de constituição...

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    Denne antologi introducerer til centrale politologiske, filosofiske, sociologiske, økonomiske og psykologiske tænkere og perspektiver, hvis teorier kan anvendes som analytiske redskaber og rammer inden for det sociale felt. Bogen giver læseren redskaber til at reflektere over og skabe kobling mel...

  4. How far can Foucault take us?: an analysis of the changing discourses and limitations of the medical treatment of apoplexy and stroke.

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    Daneski, Katharine; Higgs, Paul; Morgan, Myfanwy

    2011-07-01

    This article examines the conditions under which epistemological shifts in medicine have shaped the history of apoplexy and stroke. Our intention is to understand how stroke medicine as a distinct branch of bio-medicine has emerged in its current form. In doing so, we draw on aspects of the work of Michel Foucault as they relate to fabrication of biomedical discourses. The past 300 years of the transformation of the condition is examined using Michel Foucault's analysis of medical history as instances of the changing spatialization of disease. While the adoption of this approach helped explain how medical practice was shaped by changing interpretations of the causes of apoplexy and stroke over the past few centuries, we also found that there were certain limitations to such an approach. Overall, however, we hope to show that an examination of the history of stroke medicine through a Foucauldian influenced lens can provide a useful understanding of its current circumstances as well as throw light on gaps in Foucauldian approaches themselves.

  5. Ethics, government and sexual health: insights from Foucault.

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    Winch, Sarah

    2005-03-01

    The work of Michel Foucault, the French philosopher who was interested in power relationships, has resonated with many nurses who seek a radically analytical view of nursing practice. The purpose of this article is to explore 'ethics' through a Foucauldian lens, in a conceptual and methodological sense. The intention is to provide a useful framework that will help researchers critically to explore aspects of nursing practice that relate to the construction of the self, morality and identity, be that nurse or patient related. The fundamentals of the research method of genealogy and the methods of ethics are reviewed. Using an example taken from the sexual health practice area, advice is given on how to structure data collection, incorporate interview data, avoid discourse determinism and measure resistance.

  6. Problematizing the world around us and thinking otherwise: an experience of philosophy with children in dialogue with Michel Foucault’s thoughts

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    Francisco Javier Guardado Mendoza

    2017-04-01

    Full Text Available During a school cycle of a year we implemented an experience of philosophy with children inspired by the thoughts of Michel Foucault. The objective of our meetings was to foster thought-experiments aimed at problematizing the world around us and thinking otherwise. In the course of our experience, the thoughts of children led to different questions and reflections which we have organized according to five categories in dialogue with the ideas of Foucault: 1 critical thinking, 2 self-criticism, 3 curiosity, 4 relationship with the truth and 5 thinking otherwise. In this paper, we share a part of the expressions that, from our perspective, show how children thought differently about the world that surrounds us, and their own thinking.

  7. Foucault and Brazilian Educational Research, After Two and a Half Decades

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    Julio Groppa Aquino

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    Full Text Available This article is devoted to providing an extensive overview of the reception of Michel Foucault’s ideas in the Brazilian educational research, through the results of an investigation on the academic production based on Foucault in 52 educational journals, from 1990 to 2014. Relying on a strategy of addressing to the documents able to renounce judging the uses of the thinker’s ideas, 401 articles suggesting an appropriation of Foucault’s theorization as a working mode were selected and, then, analyzed together. At the end of the article, some reflections about current limits and future possibilities of Foucauldian studies in Brazilian education are presented.

  8. Erotismo y sexualidad: Eros o ars erótica. Foucault frente a Marcuse y Freud

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    María Laura Schaufler

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    Full Text Available Este ensayo apunta a reconstruir y reflexionar acerca del debate en torno al erotismo y la sexualidad entre la perspectiva freudiana retomada por Herbert Marcuse y las investigaciones de Michel Foucault. El trabajo con los textos implica un análisis contrastivo de las teorías que sostienen una hipótesis represiva acerca del orden sexual —el psicoanálisis freudiano y la llamada izquierda freudiana, que articuló conceptos psicoanalíticos y marxistas— y la teoría foucaultiana con su hipótesis acerca de la productividad de los discursos de la sexualidad. En este contexto cabe preguntarse si Foucault abandona completamente la hipótesis de una sexualidad reprimida. ¿Por qué los primeros hablan sobre todo de erotismo y por qué el segundo hace foco en la sexualidad? Si suponemos que ambas posturas critican el orden sexual vigente, ¿cómo imaginan las posibilidades de cambio? Para responder a estas cuestiones rastrearemos la concepción del erotismo en Freud y Marcuse para luego confrontarla con la propuesta de Foucault.

  9. Michel Goossens

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    Michel joined CERN early 1979. He started his career in the “Experimental Physics” Division "BCDMS (N4) Muon experiment" and later continued with software support to the GEM project with Emilio Pagiola. He joined the IT Department in 2005 and participated in the implementation of the digital version of PrintShop. Michel is one of the world experts in TeX and LaTex (programming languages ​​for text layout) and is the author of several books on the subject.   But at CERN, it is foremost through the Staff Association that we know Michel who successively served as Vice President, secretary and member of the Executive Committee, and since January 2011 and until December 2015, as President of the Staff Association. Do not forget that Michel has consistently been proactive with new proposals and is the initiator of social advances such as SLS (Saved Leaved Scheme) or PRP (Progressive Retirement Programme). At the end of his mandate, Michel expressed his pride fo...

  10. Foucault and Homosexuality: From Power Relation to Practice of Freedom

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    Julia Sandra Bernal Crespo

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available A 30 años de su muerte, en este artículo pretendemos reivindicar la obra de Michel Foucault, en particular evidenciar las ventajas de su método, las formas a través de las cuales obtuvo sus resultados, sus opiniones y sus análisis críticos sobre la historia de la sexualidad en Occidente. Para ello realizamos una breve introducción a los aspectos biográficos de nuestro autor, con el fin de enlazar sus preocupaciones teóricas con sus preocupaciones existenciales. Posteriormente revisamos su método, su objetivo, sus resultados y sus propuestas en torno a la investigación sobre la sexualidad.

  11. El efecto Foucault, entre el hombre nuevo y la crisis del marxismo The Foucault effect, between the "New Man" to the "crisis of Marxism"

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    Mariana Canavese

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Entre la pluralidad de usos que encontraron las elaboraciones de Michel Foucault en la Argentina, una serie de apropiaciones se relaciona con Marx y el marxismo. Una aproximación a algunas de ellas transita necesariamente entre las primeras circulaciones de sus textos a fines de la década de 1950 y las lecturas situadas en los años setenta. Luego cristalizarán usos de las elaboraciones y la cita foucaultianas que, dentro de la problemática abierta por la llamada "crisis del marxismo", oscilan entre la aprobación y el rechazo. Indagamos especialmente algunos de esos usos, en el contexto de apertura democrática, de revisión de la experiencia de masas de los setenta y fuerte distensión de la presencia del discurso marxista en el campo intelectual. Intentamos, así, profundizar los matices que complejizan la división entre un marxismo ortodoxo y los nuevos aires de la teoría crítica marxista, exponer un problema de la recepción de ideas mediante diversos usos estratégicos de dichos discursos entre agentes político-intelectuales en un contexto específico, visualizar los modos en que esas lecturas se articularon con determinadas maneras de interpretar la política y la cultura locales.In Argentina, Michel Foucault's work has had several interpretations being a series of them associated with Marx and the Marxism. An approximation to these series of interpretations includes the readings dated from the end of the '50s to the '70s. After this time and within the "crisis of Marxism", the uses of Foucault's citation oscillated among approval and rejection. In this paper, we explore some of these uses within the context of democratic transition, masses experience in the '70s and the strong relaxation of the Marxist speech in the intellectual field. In this way, we try to explain the division between the orthodox Marxism and the new Marxist critical theory. We also expose the problem of the reception of ideas through the strategic use of these

  12. Resistances to Global Educational Prescriptions in the Global South: Theoretical Considerations through Michel Foucault's Lenses

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    Charlier, Jean-Émile; Panait, Oana Marina

    2018-01-01

    This article proposes an inquiry into Foucault's approach of subjectivation, extending it to the institutional actors and individual subjects in the educational field in the Global South. The article takes Senegal as a case study and examines the reactions of these categories of actors to the Education for All global policy and to the national…

  13. Bisogna difendere la società. La questione dell’identità razziale tra Michel Foucault ed Étienne Balibar

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    Valeria Gammella

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available Faced with the growth of nationalism and racism in Occident, this essay aims to provide some theoretical tools to think ‘historically’ racism. To this end, I propose a study of the reflections of Foucault and Balibar about this issue. Their positions, although different, converge in approaching racism  as a problem connected with the construction of identity, in which the stakes are, according to Balibar, the political hegemony of a class in the national context, and, according to Foucault, the establishment of power relationships in the social context. In the years in which Foucault studies the genesis of racism, he’s also interested to the political role of knowledge as tool both of domination and struggle. So, according to his re-enacting, biological racism takes form in opposition to the idea of revolution to present the domination of a part of society as something founded in their dangerous nature.  Balibar assumes that after the decolonization a new racism has taken shape, in which the category of race has been replaced by that of immigration. According to the new racism, cultures can’t live in peace if they mix each other and the only antidote to racism is closing nation’s borders. In this regard, Balibar shows that the same creation of nation needs the division of society in races: racism appears so closely connected with nationalism but also with ideology of class, that presents differences of class as insuperable anthropological and moral differences.

  14. ŚMIERĆ BOGA I ŚMIECH CZŁOWIEKA

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    MARCIN SMERDA

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Author of the article starts with a question about the meaning of the activity that is writing. He looks for answers in ‘The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences’ by Michel Foucault, which – according to the author – emerged from the experience of the laughter, triggered by the book of Jorge Louis Borgese, in which he included an excerpt from the Chinese encyclopedia describing the classification of animals. The author is analysing this phenomenon in detail, inter alia in the context of what about the laughter thought Georges Bataille, who greatly inspired Foucault. However, the author does not end his deliberation with an answer to the question: ‘Why Foucault wrote ‘The Order of Things’’, where the philosopher announced ‘the death of man’ for the first time. He is trying to go deeper and answer the question: ‘why the man had to die?’

  15. Reflexões sobre biopoder e pos-colonialismo: relendo Fanon e Foucault

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    Cunha Olívia Maria Gomes da

    2002-01-01

    Full Text Available Autores como Michel Foucault e Franz Fanon têm figurado de forma influente tanto em estudos sobre questões relativas a estratégias de poder e representação em contextos pós-coloniais, quanto em debates e análises de ordem teórica sobre pós-colonialismo. Particularmente, as noções de biopoder e governamentalidade, originárias do pensamento de Foucault, e as reflexões de Fanon sobre a construção de formas de subjetivação racializadas e coloniais, têm ensejado um amplo debate sobre a permanência e circulação de retóricas raciais transnacionais. Através da leitura de David Scott, em Refashioning Futures - Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999, e Paul Gilroy, em Against Race - Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000, este ensaio procura identificar a pertinência da combinação de ambos os autores em estudos que, de forma distinta, se debruçam sobre a complexa relação entre corpo e modernidade e suas implicações nos campos político e intelectual contemporâneos.

  16. un recorrido por los límites. Foucault, Bourdieu, De Certeau

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    María Graciela Rodríguez

    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo pone en relación las maneras en que distintos autores han pensado la inscripción de la ley en los cuerpos, lo que permite, a su vez, reflexionar sobre las diferentes posibilidades de interjuego entre esa ley y las subjetividades. Por ende, cada aproximación al tema propondrá variaciones respecto de los territorios y las gramáticas en donde esas manifestaciones cobran sentido. En otras palabras, cada abordaje colocará en distintos lugares los límites a la actividad creadora de los sujetos. Así, Foucault, De Certeau y Bourdieu son objeto de interrogaciones respecto de la relación entre la norma que disciplina y la que permite el juego heterónomo de la creatividad de los dominados. Desde la posible articulación con la memoria histórica (De Certeau, pasando por la interiorización de la legalidad en el nivel de las conciencias (Bourdieu, existe un recorrido que es posible analizar y en el cual el trabajo de Michel Foucault nutre la densidad de los argumentos y les sirve como telón de fondo.

  17. Foucault e Rancière: perspectivas e crítica ao conceito de biopoder

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    A questão da biopolítica perpassou boa parte das discussões nos últimos 30 a 50 anos. Michel Foucault, notadamente, foi o principal pensador a apresentar como o corpo é objeto de uma adestração que o torna dócil e economicamente rentável dentro das sociedades disciplinares. O presente trabalho tem o intuito de apresentar a crítica feita por Jacques Rancière ao conceito de biopoder e biopolítica, confrontando principalmente a posição foucaultiana, a partir de seu par conceitual polícia/polític...

  18. Michel Waldschmidt

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    Home; Journals; Resonance – Journal of Science Education. Michel Waldschmidt. Articles written in Resonance – Journal of Science Education. Volume 13 Issue 5 May 2008 pp 440-455 General Article. Arithmetic and Cryptography · Michel Waldschmidt · More Details Fulltext PDF ...

  19. [Madness in Foucault: art and madness, madness and unreason].

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    Providello, Guilherme Gonzaga Duarte; Yasui, Silvio

    2013-10-01

    After presenting the ideas on madness and its interface with art as expressed in the writings of Michel Foucault, Peter Pál Pelbart, and Gilles Deleuze, the article explores how these authors question the relationship between art and madness. It begins with the notion that madness does not tell the truth about art, and vice versa, but that there are links between both that must be delved into if we are to engage in deeper reflection on the topic. The text problematizes the statement that madness is the absence of an oeuvre and examines how this impacts the possibility of achieving an artistic oeuvre. It further problematizes the idea of madness as excluded language, that is, the idea that madness implies not only the exclusion of the body but also the disqualification of discourse.

  20. Jogos de linguagem/jogos de verdade: de Wittgenstein a Foucault

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    Elza Ibrahim

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available El artículo trae a discusión la cuestión de la constitución del sujeto a través de los juegos de verdad y de los juegos de lenguaje, problematizados, respectivamente, por Michel Foucault y Ludwig Wittgenstein, teniendo como hilo conductor las implica - ciones del lenguaje en las prácticas que realizadas en un hospital psiquiátrico-penal con pacientes inimputables. Para ello, presentamos la visión objetivista de realidad y del lenguaje figurativo, en lugar del punto de vista constructivista de la realidad y del lenguaje pragmático. De acuerdo con este último punto de vista, la realidad es producida por el lenguaje a través de juegos de lenguaje, históricamente contextua - lizadas. Por lo tanto, estaríamos hablando de sujetos únicos, y no del sujeto trascen - dental. En este contexto, traemos a la discusión la noción de verdad problematizada por Foucault como un campo de potencial. Para él, es tan sólo en la contingencia de la historia que se constituye el sujeto: como el lenguaje, él es producto de múltiples prácticas sociales.

  1. Hanna Meißner: Jenseits des autonomen Subjekts. Zur gesellschaftlichen Konstitution von Handlungsfähigkeit im Anschluss an Butler, Foucault und Marx. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2010.

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    Stefan Schoppengerd

    2012-02-01

    Full Text Available Die Autorin nimmt feministische und postkoloniale Problematisierungen des Subjektbegriffes auf. Diese implizieren eine grundsätzliche Infragestellung subjektiver, kritischer Handlungsfähigkeit. Um die Vorstellung einer solchen nicht gänzlich verwerfen zu müssen, rekonstruiert sie drei theoretische Perspektiven (Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx mit unterschiedlichen Reichweiten und Gegenständen, die aber gemein haben, subjektive Handlungsfähigkeit gerade als Effekt widersprüchlicher Strukturen zu konzeptionalisieren. Dabei fokussiert sie nicht die – durchaus vorhandenen – Widersprüche zwischen den Ansätzen, sondern stellt sie in Form einer Synopse nebeneinander.The author incorporates feminist and postcolonial problematizations of the subject concept. These imply a fundamental questioning of subjective, critical agency. In order to prevent having to completely reject this concept, she reconstructs three theoretical perspectives (Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx with varying range and focus, which nevertheless indeed share the conceptualization of subjective agency as an effect of contradictory structures. In doing so, she does not focus on the – certainly existing – contradictions between the approaches, but compares them in the form of a synopsis.

  2. Foucault's points of resistance. Women in science: 1620--2000

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    Vitale, Cindy Gail

    In his unique method of historical research, Michel Foucault was concerned with how institutional power relations are both established and maintained through discourse, in its broadest sense. Foucault found that the character of the discourse of any given period of history serves as the foundation of knowledge which is then transformed into power by those who "appropriate," "bound," then use it as "technologies of discipline." This power operates transparently and serves to "construct" individuals to meet institutional expectations. Important for this study is that Foucault believed that where there is power there is resistance, and that "points of resistance" operate everywhere in "power networks." This study has two parts. The first is a description and an extension of Foucault's notion of resistance as it operates within institutional power relations. The second, using the extended version of Foucault's resistance, is a deconstruction of the discourse of science education in the United States. The deconstruction focused on resistance operating within the male/female power relations network. The deconstruction revealed three overlapping yet distinct historical periods in which the dominant discourse was characterized by one of Foucault's three general technologies of discipline. During the first period, 1620--1790, women were generally not allowed access to formal (institutional) education. This disciplinary technology, which Foucault called "dividing practices," was justified by the commonly accepted religious view of the period that females were both mentally and morally inferior beings. Women were, so to speak, "barred at the schoolhouse gate." In the second period, 1790--1920, female resistance to these dividing practices was parallel to their limited access to formal education. Women were "admitted at the schoolhouse gate," and the appearance of successful resistance occurred as women began to enroll in science classes. Unlike their male counterparts

  3. Emancipating Intellectual Property from Proprietarianism: Drahos, Foucault, and a Quasi-Genealogy of IP

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    Wendyl Luna

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper argues that Peter Drahos undertakes a partial Foucauldian genealogy by emancipating intellectual property (IP from proprietarianism. He demonstrates the dominance of proprietarianism in IP by drawing sample practices from trademark, copyright, and patent laws, and then seeks to displace the proprietarian dominance with instrumentalism, which reconstitutes IP as a “liberty-intruding privilege.” Ironically, despite doing a genealogy, Drahos does not eradicate sovereignty altogether as Michel Foucault insists, but instead determines IP as a “sovereignty mechanism” that has a “sovereignty effect.” After explaining what Foucauldian genealogy is, the paper will explain how Drahos undertakes a genealogy of IP, while highlighting the limitations of Drahos’ analysis from a Foucauldian perspective.

  4. FOUCAULT, A HISTÓRIA E A LINGUAGEM EM "AS PALAVRAS E AS COISAS"

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    Tomás Mendonça da Silva Prado

    2014-10-01

    Full Text Available O presente trabalho investiga o conceito de linguagem em As palavras e as coisas, de Michel Foucault. Buscamos atender às diferentes conjunturas presentes na obra, desde as considerações gerais do prefácio, acerca das noções de "epistémê" e "ordem", até as especificidades de cada época estudada pelo filósofo, com seus respectivos princípios. No Renascimento, o trabalho de Foucault encontra amparo no princípio da semelhança; na época clássica, na representação; e, na modernidade, na história. Além de considerar a linguagem em cada uma dessas diferentes conjunturas, trata-se de esclarecê-la à luz de suas próprias modalidades, como o comentário, o nome e o discurso e à luz dos desafios epistemológicos que com ela são tramados. Finalmente, buscamos esclarecer a relação entre a linguagem e o anúncio foucaultiano de que o fim do homem pode estar próximo.

  5. Hamartia: Foucault and Iran 1978–1979 (1: Introduction and texts

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    Johann Beukes

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available In 1978 Michel Foucault went to Iran as a distinguished intellectual but novice political journalist, controversially reporting on the unfolding revolution, undeniably compromising and wounding his reputation in the European intellectual community. Given the revolution’s bloody aftermath and its violent theocratic development, is Foucault’s Iranian expedition simply to be understood as hamartia, a critical error in judgement, with disastrous consequences for his legacy? What exactly did Foucault hope to achieve in Iran in 1978 to 1979, explicitly supporting the cause of the revolting masses and effectively isolating himself from the European intellectual community and the Western liberal tradition? This series of two articles attempts to shed light on these questions by, in the first article, 1 introducing and contextualising the philosophical issues and 2 discussing the relevant texts; then, in the second article, 3 elaborating on three explicit contributions (Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson; Ian Almond; and Danny Postel that recently have been made on this neglected issue in Foucault scholarship and 4 eventually indicating the possible philosophical signifi cance of Foucault’s peculiar mixture of naïveté and perceptivity – indeed his peculiar hamartia – regarding the events in Iran. Presenting Foucault as a ‘self-conscious Greek in Persia’, the argument in both articles is that Foucault’s ‘present-historical’ writings on the Iran revolution were closely related to his general theoretical writings on the discourses of power and his cynical perspectives on the inherent risks of modernity. Foucault’s journalistic writings on Iran in 1978 to 1979 are therefore to be appreciated as essentially philosophical contributions to his extensive modern-critical oeuvre. Foucault’s perspectives on power, revolt, Otherness, ‘political spirituality’ and his ‘ethics of Self-discomfort’ may prove to be as significant for an

  6. Foucault y su crítica al humanismo

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    Ignacio Bárcenas Monroy

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del presente trabajo es determinar el significado de la frase “la muerte del Hombre” en la filosofía contemporánea. Para ello se comienza por dar un panorama general del lugar que ocupa esta reflexión en la filosofía contemporánea. Después se muestra que, a partir de los análisis de Michel Foucault, el hombre es una invención reciente, pues no ha sido una constante en la historia del pensamiento. En seguida se describen aquellos saberes que tienen como objeto de estudio al hombre, mostrando que en lugar de darnos una respuesta sobre lo que éste sea, antes bien lo disuelven, más aún las ciencias humanas producen mecanismos de poder que normalizan a los seres humanos. Se concluye que una reflexión así planteada promueve la indagación de nuevas formas para pensar al ser humano, alejadas de un viejo humanismo.

  7. Foucault: A Heretic?

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    Judith Revel

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Moving from the analogy with Spinoza, the essay defines the figure and the work of Foucault as a unique and particular event and as the effect of some specific historical and intellectual processes. The heresy of Foucault is thus unexpectedly preceded by George Lukács' History and Class Consciousness, while at the same time it must be linked with the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: in both cases there are at stake an “open” history and a dialectics without a possible synthesis. These same elements return in the way Foucault shows the radical historicity of political subjects and of power itself. This story, which is dispelled in the multiplicity of its processes and events, becomes a space for Foucault's political ontology and allows defining him a political philosopher of history.

  8. Max Weber and Robert Michels.

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    Scaff, Lawrence A.

    1981-01-01

    This paper investigates the unique intellectual partnership of Max Weber and Robert Michels, with particular emphasis on Weber's influence on Michel's inquiry into the sociology of parties and organization. Concludes with an evaluation of the import of Weber's critique of Michels' work. (DB)

  9. Foucault and Habermas

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    Albinus, Lars

    2009-01-01

    Bidraget fremstiller henholdsvis Habermas' og Foucault's opfattelse af rationalitet og magt m.h.p. overvejelser over religionens betydning i moderniteten.......Bidraget fremstiller henholdsvis Habermas' og Foucault's opfattelse af rationalitet og magt m.h.p. overvejelser over religionens betydning i moderniteten....

  10. Twin-Foucault imaging method

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    Harada, Ken

    2012-02-01

    A method of Lorentz electron microscopy, which enables observation two Foucault images simultaneously by using an electron biprism instead of an objective aperture, was developed. The electron biprism is installed between two electron beams deflected by 180° magnetic domains. Potential applied to the biprism deflects the two electron beams further, and two Foucault images with reversed contrast are then obtained in one visual field. The twin Foucault images are able to extract the magnetic domain structures and to reconstruct an ordinary electron micrograph. The developed Foucault method was demonstrated with a 180° domain structure of manganite La0.825Sr0.175MnO3.

  11. Foucault and Capitalist Rationality : A Reconstruction

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    Ali Muhammad Rizvi

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available The relation between the regimes of the accumulation of men and the accumulation of capital is problematised in the works of Michel Foucault. The paper challenges the prevailing wisdom that the relation between these regimes is contingent. The fundamentalquestion of the conditions of the possibility of relation between the two regimes is raised. It is argued that both regimes are primordially related. Focusing on the Foucauldiananalysis of the regime of the accumulation of men and its constituent elements an effort is made to the matize the primordial relation between the two regimes. It is shown that freedom is the condition of the possibility of a primordial relation between the tworegimes. It is explained why freedom plays such a fundamental role in making possible and sustaining a capitalist order. The dual role of freedom as a principle of diversity and a principle of management is stressed. It is argued that capitalism as an order is conditionedupon the production and reproduction of individuals and populations that are simultaneously useful and free. It is also the condition of such an order that docility is produced without hampering utility. Freedom makes possible the enhancement of utility without making it unmanageable.

  12. Hulluse tõde mõistuse ajastul / Marek Tamm

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    Tamm, Marek, 1973-

    2004-01-01

    Rets. rmt.: Foucault, Michel. Hullus ja arutus. Hullumeelsuse ajalugu klassikalisel ajastul. Tartu, 2003 ; Foucault, Michel. Le pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au College de France, 1973-1974. Pariis, 2003. Samal teemal : Vahing, Vaino. Ühiskond ja vaimuhaigus, lk. B10

  13. NARRADOR SILENCIOSO? UMA LEITURA DE PEPETELA SOB A ÓPTICA DO DISCURSO DE MICHEL FOUCAULT

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    Sebastião Marques Neto

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available objetivo deste artigo é discutir o silenciamento e o silêncio da voz narrativa em A gloriosa família, do escritor angolano Pepetela – pseudônimo de Arthur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos – (1999. Inspirado em Fou-cault, proponho-me a tratar alguns enunciados da obra, a partir do seu pen-samento sobre a noção de discurso e poder, buscando a multiplicidade de acontecimentos que operam nos jogos entre o real e o ficcional; entre o fato histórico e a suas versões imersas nas práticas sociais. A idéia é articular o foco narrativo em seu duplo movimento: ora silenciado, ora em afasia, den-tro de um contexto cujas relações de poder buscam ecos na escrita do filóso-fo francês.

  14. Hannah Arendt, Foucault e a reinvenção do espaço público Hannah Arendt, Foucault and the reinvention of the public space

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    Francisco Ortega

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar algumas convergências entre o pensamento de Hannah Arendt e o de Foucault. Minha tese a respeito é, que no fundo, ambos os autores visam a um pensamento do aberto e do não determinado, uma alternativa política que vai além de uma política partidista e que aponta para recuperar o espaço público. Política como atividade de criação e de experimentação. A teoria política de Hannah Arendt representa uma tentativa de pensar o acontecimento, de afrontar a contingência, de recusar as imagens e metáforas tradicionais oferecidas para imaginar o político, como uma vontade de agir, de transgredir e superar os limites.The object of this article is to show some convergences between the thought of Hannah Arendt and of Michel Foucault. My thesis is that both authors aims a thought of the openess and not determined, a political alternative that goes beyong the party politics and aims to recover the public space. Politics as activity of creation and experimentation. The political theory of Hannah Arendt represents a tentative to think the event, to affront the contingency and to deny the traditional images and metaphors offered to imagine the political. It is a will to act, to transgress and overcome the limits.

  15. Foucault e Rancière: perspectivas e crítica ao conceito de biopoder

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    Pedro Danilo Galdino

    2017-10-01

    Full Text Available A questão da biopolítica perpassou boa parte das discussões nos últimos 30 a 50 anos. Michel Foucault, notadamente, foi o principal pensador a apresentar como o corpo é objeto de uma adestração que o torna dócil e economicamente rentável dentro das sociedades disciplinares. O presente trabalho tem o intuito de apresentar a crítica feita por Jacques Rancière ao conceito de biopoder e biopolítica, confrontando principalmente a posição foucaultiana, a partir de seu par conceitual polícia/política que [re]configuram a partilha do sensível, ora de maneira consensual, ora de maneira dissensual.

  16. [The unbroken power of psychiatry as seen through the eyes of Michel Foucault].

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    Kraan, H F

    2006-01-01

    Is the psychiatrist still a powerfulforce in society? Foucault, a 'historical philosopher' concerned with power relations, would have answered this question in the affirmative. Possibly, however, the psychiatrist's sovereign power is weaker than it was a century ago because some of the psychiatrist's tasks have been re-allocated. Some have been assigned to the growing number of specialist groups in the mental health service, others have been put in the hands of 'health managers' who form part of our country's growing bureaucracy and put a financial and economic burden on our health service. Nevertheless, the procedural power of psychiatrist has not been weakened; psychiatrists are able to deprive patients of their freedom, pronounce them unfit for work and reduce punishments and sentences for serious crime on the grounds of diminished responsibility. This procedural power is accentuated by the increasing influence of psychology in society. The power of psychiatric knowledge has shifted from an archaic to a demonstrative discourse about truth which is rooted in evidence-based medicine and which enhances the power of psychiatrists still further. This may also mean that the 19th century concept of hysteria is perpetuated in psychiatric practice in all kinds of modern clinical forms.

  17. Kubrick com Foucault ou O Desvio do Panoptismo

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    Ivan Capeller

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available O panoptismo - um conceito fundamental para a compreensão da formação e do funcionamento das sociedades disciplinares ocidentais a partir dos séculos XVII-XVIII - apareceu em meados dos anos 70 nas análises empreendidas por Michel Foucault, em Vigiar e Punir, de um dispositivo carcerário setecentista então pouco estudado - o panopticum de Jeremy Bentham. Este artigo procede a uma releitura da teoria foucaultiana do panoptismo em que a crítica do dispositivo panóptico é retomada a partir do filme A Laranja Mecânica de Stanley Kubrick, enfatizando metodologicamente a relevância da ficção-científica, como um gênero,  na elaboração teórica das passagens e processos de transição que podemos observar entre as já conhecidas e estudadas formas disciplinares de sociedade e uma possível, ou suposta, sociedade porvir do controle. 

  18. Algorithmic Finance and (Limits to Governmentality: On Foucault and High-Frequency Trading

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    Christian Borch

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available In this essay I discuss algorithmic finance, specifically the use of fully automated trading, including high-frequency trading, in the light of Michel Foucault's notion of governmentality. I argue that a governmentality perspective offers a fruitful way of understanding particular aspects of high-frequency trading, such as how algorithms are designed to govern other market participants' anticipations of market dynamics. However, I also argue that, to fully understand the realm of algorithmic finance and high-frequency trading, it is important to supplement a governmentality approach with an analytical lexicon which is not primarily centred on productive forms of power. Specifically, I suggest that, according to media discourses on high-frequency trading, algorithmic finance often works in ways that are better grasped through, e.g. Elias Canetti's work on predatory power and Roger Caillois's work on mimesis.

  19. Protecting vulnerable research participants: a Foucault-inspired analysis of ethics committees.

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    Juritzen, Truls I; Grimen, Harald; Heggen, Kristin

    2011-09-01

    History has demonstrated the necessity of protecting research participants. Research ethics are based on a concept of asymmetry of power, viewing the researcher as powerful and potentially dangerous and establishing ethics committees as external agencies in the field of research. We argue in favour of expanding this perspective on relationships of power to encompass the ethics committees as one among several actors that exert power and that act in a relational interplay with researchers and participants. We employ Michel Foucault's ideas of power as an omnipresent force which is dynamic and unstable, as well as the notion that knowledge and power are inextricably intertwined. The article discusses how research ethics committees may affect academic freedom. In addition it is pointed out that research participants could be harmed - not only by unfortunate research practices, but also by being subjected to the protective efforts of ethics monitoring bodies.

  20. Michel Trottier-McDonald

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    Home; Journals; Pramana – Journal of Physics. Michel Trottier-McDonald. Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics. Volume 79 Issue 5 November 2012 pp 1337-1340 Poster Presentations. Tau reconstruction, energy calibration and identification at ATLAS · Michel Trottier-McDonald on behalf of the ATLAS ...

  1. Foucault reads Marx. Marx reads Foucault.

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    Michal Kozłowski

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Important element which funds the base of Foucaultian social science is his thesis on the locality of power, on its material and corporeal characteristics. We are discussing here his very relationship with capitalism, and, indirectly, with Marx himself. Foucault claims, that power has no center and it is not commanded from any kind of headquarter. That has enormous epistemic, as well as political consequences. Foucault stays suspicious to systemic thinking, if we consider system following Hegel, that is, both a point of departure and a point of arrival of research. His controversy with Marxism has many levels, but one of the most important refers to the issue of power: system of power does not have its center, which according to Marxists lays in the political economy, and it has no dualistic character, that is structure and superstructure.

  2. Foucault's Notion of Forms of Problematization

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    Frederiksen, Kirsten; Lomborg, Kirsten; Beedholm, Kirsten

    2015-01-01

    's later writings and his diagnosis of his own work as studies of forms of problematization. To shed light on the possibilities that this approach offers to the researcher, we present a reading of aspects of Foucault's work, with a focus on his notion of forms of problematization. Furthermore, we elaborate......'s oeuvre, we argue against this critique and provide a methodological discussion of the perception that Foucault's method constitutes, primarily, discourse analysis. We argue that it is possible to overcome this critique of Foucault's work by the application of methodological tools adapted from Foucault...

  3. Pædagogik i sociologisk perspektiv

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    Hermann, Leif; Hermann, Stefan; Næsby, Torben

    En præsentation af Karl Marx og Friedich Engels, Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Niclas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Ziehe, Anthony Giddens......En præsentation af Karl Marx og Friedich Engels, Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Niclas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Ziehe, Anthony Giddens...

  4. Foucault, the subject and the research interview: a critique of methods.

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    Fadyl, Joanna K; Nicholls, David A

    2013-03-01

    Research interviews are a widely used method in qualitative health research and have been adapted to suit a range of methodologies. Just as it is valuable that new approaches are explored, it is also important to continue to examine their appropriate use. In this article, we question the suitability of research interviews for 'history of the present' studies informed by the work of Michel Foucault - a form of qualitative research that is being increasingly employed in the analysis of healthcare systems and processes. We argue that several aspects of research interviewing produce philosophical and methodological complications that can interfere with achieving the aims of the analysis in this type of study. The article comprises an introduction to these tensions and examination of them in relation to key aspects of a Foucauldian philosophical position, and discussion of where this might position researchers when it comes to designing a study. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

  5. Foucault Pendulum without Driving

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    Yamashita, Yoshifumi

    2016-06-01

    Foucault pendulums are two-dimensional harmonic oscillators to which the Coriolis force is applied. The Foucault parameter ΩF is the ideal rate of rotation of the plane of oscillation due to the Coriolis force. Kamerlingh Onnes pointed out that the actual behavior of Foucault pendulums can be understood only by taking into account the unavoidable mechanical asymmetry, i.e., the difference between the frequency in the X-direction and that in the Y-direction, which is called the asymmetry parameter δ. Our equations of motion for Foucault pendulums are linear and their solutions are easily obtained. We are interested in slowly varying rotations of the plane of oscillation, where the angle of rotation is denoted by φ. The motion of the bob consists of rapid simple oscillations and the slow rotations mentioned above. Eliminating the rapid oscillations, we obtain an analytic expression for tan 2φ, which is a periodic function with period π /√{Ω F2 + δ 2} . The graphs of the rotation φ versus time t have two distinct appearances. Under the condition ΩF ≥ δ|cos(2θ)| (θ is the initial value of φ), φ decreases monotonically, which is the behavior expected for Foucault pendulums. Otherwise φ repeatedly increases and decreases, which is the behavior of pendulums describing Lissajous figures. The vertical component of angular momentum is also calculated analytically.

  6. Sur le discours et l’histoire en foucault. Entretien avec Jacques Guilhaumou

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    Full Text Available Dans cet entretien inédit, Jaques Guilhaumou parle sur la question du discours et de l´histoire dans la pensée de Michel Foucault en regardant telles questions à partir du belvédère de l’Analyse du Discours selon la perception française. Il commence en présentant un panorama de ses travaux plus actuels et souligne ensuite le rôle décisif de Foucault dans le établissement de une nouvelle relation entre le discours et l´histoire. Dans cette direction, il donne des détails sur quelques influences épistémologiques de la pensée foucaultienne qui viennent surtout de Nietzsche et Koselleck. Comme un grand étudiant de la pensée marxiste, Guilhaumou parle aussi sur le concept de l´ideologie et ses plusières métamorphoses conceptuelles dans autres champs jusqu´au moment de parler sur la question du pouvoir. Il parle quand même sur la problématique de l´analyse des images dans l´Analyse du Discours, une question favorable pour beaucoup des analystes du discours qui s´occupent avec le syncrétisme sémiotique des ses objets dans l´actualité. Enfin, il indique l´existence de une théorie du discours diluée dans la pensée du philosophe.

  7. Einstein wrote back my life in physics

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    2012-01-01

    John W. Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein's famous paper on general relativity. Realizing instantly that he had an unusual and unexplained aptitude for understanding the complex physics described in the paper, Moffat wrote a letter to Einstein that would change the course of his life. Einstein Wrote Back tells the story of Moffat's unusual entry into the world of academia and documents his career at the frontlines of twentieth-century physics as he worked and associated with some of the greatest minds in scientific history, including Niels Bohr,

  8. SAN MICHELE. ENTRE CIELO Y MAR / San Michele, between sky and sea

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    Pablo Blázquez Jesús

    2012-11-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN El cementerio es uno de los tipos arquitectónicos más profundos y metafóricos. El concurso para la ampliación del cementerio de San Michele, convocado en 1998 por la administración Municipal de Venecia, se convierte en un excelente campo de pruebas sobre el que poder analizar el contexto histórico en torno a esta tipología, y su relación con la ciudad y el territorio. El estudio de este caso concreto nos permite descubrir personajes, relaciones casuales y hallazgos que se despliegan a lo largo del texto. La historia del cementerio de San Michele es también la crónica de la transformación de la ciudad de Venecia y su Laguna. Interpretando este concurso como un instrumento de investigación, el objetivo del artículo es el de comprender la realidad contemporánea de la arquitectura funeraria a través de la isla de San Michele, Venecia, y las propuestas finalistas de Carlos Ferrater, Enric Miralles y David Chipperfield. Una historia bajo la cual se vislumbran claves que nos sirven para reflexionar acerca del cementerio contemporáneo, la ciudad y el territorio. SUMMARY The cemetery is one of the most profound and metaphorical kinds of architecture. The competition for the extension of the San Michele Cemetery, called in 1998 by the Venice municipal administration, is an excellent testing ground on which to analyse the historical context surrounding this type of architecture, and its relationship with the city and the region. The study of this particular case allows us to uncover characters, casual relationships and findings that unfold throughout the text. The history of the San Michele cemetery is also the chronicle of the transformation of the city of Venice and its Lagoon. Interpreting this competition as a research tool, the aim of the paper is to understand the contemporary reality of funerary architecture through the island of San Michele, Venice, and the finalist proposals of Carlos Ferrater, Enric Miralles and David

  9. Foucault Must Not be Defended

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    Dean, Mitchell

    2015-01-01

    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 on the relation between the habitus of the intellectual and the political contexts of action and engagement in the case of Foucault, ...

  10. Foucault Comes to Bakur: Sovereign Power and Collective Punishment

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    Mümtaz Murat Kök

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available The Solution Process in Turkey has come to an abrupt end and along with it came an unprecedented violence in Bakur (Northern Kurdistan. This paper argues that the violence ravaging the region – especially in those areas where curfews have been declared – can be considered as a practice of punishment that is being employed indiscriminately. In line with this thought, the paper adopts a Foucauldian approach for comprehending the motivations behind the practice of collective punishment. In doing so, the paper revolves around the concepts of sovereign power and punishment introduced and argued by Michel Foucault. The paper argues that success of a pro-Kurdish party (HDP in June 7 elections and following declarations of self-rule in the region constituted an obstacle in Erdoğan’s desire for presidency but more importantly he took it as an act of dissent to his sovereign will. As can be seen in the functioning of sovereign power, he therefore punishes those people who are HDP’s main constituent while making an example out of them for potential challengers to his sovereign will.

  11. Foucault: the imaginary sex.

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    de Queiroz, J M

    1993-01-01

    Foucault has haphazardly written many things about contemporary homosexuality (we have only two short interesting interviews on the subject). But La Volonté de Savoir develops a new idea about the modern sexuality inclination; Surveiller et Punir is a real political economy of the human body; and Foucault's last two books on antiquity give us a new point of view as regards the relations of subject to desire. This combined analysis constitutes a coherent structure of proposals that helps to enlighten crucial matters relevant to the gay community, particularly when it deals with what sexual "freedom and sexual identity mean. The answers outlined by Foucault yield two questions and two meanings as regards homosexuality nowadays, which cannot be kept apart from experience, and without any need of theoretical dissociation, if we are to understand the problem better.

  12. Clío, entre Freud y Lacan: El gesto psicoanalítico en Michel de Certeau

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    Andrés Freijomil

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available A partir de los años 1970, el historiador francés Michel de Certeau (1925-1986 comenzó a indagar la naturaleza epistemológica de la historiografía a partir de varios campos del saber. Uno de los más importantes ha sido, sin duda, el psicoanálisis. A lo largo de una serie de ensayos publicados en revistas como Annales, Action poétique o Lettres de l'École, de Certeau examinó el legado freudiano, discutió con el Foucault de Historia de la locura y la tradición antropológica de Géza Roheim. De tal modo, lejos de aplicar el psicoanálisis a la historia, de Certeau más bien propuso resituar sus espacios metodológicos a fin de "elucidar" la especificidad de cada disciplina

  13. Les enjeux stratégiques de la théorie du discours chez Foucault

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    Full Text Available In order to fully understand Michel Foucault’s archeology of knowledge it is necessary to put it not only in the context of the discourse theories of the French school, but also in that of the linguistic theories of science. On the one hand, Foucault rejects the representational theory of scientific language (developed by Carnap and others. In his analysis of the discourse of the human sciences, with its complicated definition of the statement (énoncé, he aims to show that we cannot limit the language of knowledge to a vocabulary. On the other hand, Foucault’s approach is a serious challenge to structuralism because it is impossible to analyze the language of savoirs without taking into account the statement’s correlate (the referent issue. If the discourse of sciences is an artificial vocabulary created by means of the purification of the natural language, Saussure’s semiology could not compete against the conceptual dynamics of representational semiotics, and should admit that, in the cognitive usage, signs are representations. Therefore, Foucault admits that the statement has a correlate, that this correlate is not a physical object and that it functions as a historical structure of the discourse. This structure (épistémè can be seen as a norm; the changing of this norm cannot be identified but in the archive and its description is always retrospective, structural and archaeological.

  14. Mobilizing Foucault: history, subjectivity and autonomous learners in nurse education.

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    Darbyshire, Chris; Fleming, Valerie E M

    2008-12-01

    In the past 20, years the impact of progressive educational theories have become influential in nurse education particularly in relation to partnership and empowerment between lecturers and students and the development of student autonomy. The introduction of these progressive theories was in response to the criticisms that nurse education was characterized by hierarchical and asymmetrical power relationships between lecturers and students that encouraged rote learning and stifled student autonomy. This article explores how the work of Michel Foucault can be mobilized to think about autonomy in three different yet overlapping ways: as a historical event; as a discursive practice; and as part of an overall strategy to produce a specific student subject position. The implications for educational practice are that, rather than a site where students are empowered, nurse education is both a factory and a laboratory where new subjectivities are continually being constructed. This suggests that empowering practices and disciplinary practices uneasily co-exist. Critical reflection needs to be directed not only at structural dimensions of power but also on ourselves as students and lecturers by asking a Foucauldian question: How are you interested in autonomy?

  15. In memoriam Michel Butor (1926 – 2016

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    Christof Weiand

    2016-08-01

    Full Text Available Am Mittwoch, dem 24. August 2016, ist Michel Butor gestorben, drei Wochen vor seinem 90. Geburtstag. Als Beispiel für Michel Butors Dichtung soll an dieser Stelle ein Gedicht aus den Textes récents – 37 pages/Neueste Texte – 37 Seiten stehen, die 2012 erstmals erschienen sind:Michel Butor, Textes récents – 37 pages/Neueste Texte – 37 Seiten, aus dem Französischen übersetzt, kommentiert und eingerichtet von Christof Weiand (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012.

  16. Foucault at the bedside: a critical analysis of empowering a healthy lifestyle.

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    Devisch, Ignaas; Vanheule, Stijn

    2015-06-01

    Since quite a few years, philosophy is heading towards the bedside of the patient: the practice of philosophy has stepped out of its ivory tower, it seems, to deal with empirical or practical questions. Apart from the advantages, we should keep in mind the importance of a critical analysis of medical or clinical practice as such. If ethics partakes the clinical stage, it runs the risk only to discuss the how question and to forget the more fundamental what or why questions: what are we doing exactly and why is it good for? Starting from the principle of the empowerment of the patient, we will demonstrate how the discourse on empowerment in health care seems to forget a profound reflection upon this principle as such. By rehearsing some basics from the governmentality theory of Michel Foucault and the actualization of it by Nicolas Rose, we will argue how philosophical investigation in medical-ethical evolutions such as empowerment of the patient is still needed to understand what is really going on in today's clinical practice. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  17. Power and Truth in Foucault and Habermas

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    Current paper examines how truth is enmeshed with power in Foucault´s and Habermas´s theories, highlighting similarities and differences within the two theoretical perspectives. If, on the one hand, truth in Foucault is based on a monologic imposition, on the other hand, Habermas insists on the dialogic understanding of the truth, although in both cases, related to power, at opposite positions, as Habermas himself points out in ‘The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity’. Foucault takes on a c...

  18. Michel Blanc 1952-2009

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    2009-01-01

    We deeply regret to announce the death of Mr Michel BLANC on 27 November 2009. Mr BLANC, who was born on 4 April 1952, was a member of the IT Department and had worked at CERN since 1 January 1978. The Director-General has sent his family a message of condolence on behalf of the CERN personnel. Social Affairs It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of our friend and colleague Michel Blanc on the evening of Friday 27 November. Everyone who knew him, especially those who had spent many years with him in the Computer Centre where he worked since his arrival at CERN in 1978, but also his more recent colleagues, will always remember his good humour, his quick wit and his amazing zest for life. He made staunch friends during his thirty years at CERN and often kept in touch with them after they left the Organization. His passion for motorcycling and for walks with his wife, his two sons and his friends were some of his great joys in life. Michel took a well-earned early retirement in Octobe...

  19. O estatuto da medicalização e as interpretações de Ivan Illich e Michel Foucault como ferramentas conceituais para o estudo da desmedicalização

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    Paula Gaudenzi

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available Analisa-se o termo medicalização nos estudos de Illich e Foucault, com vistas a oferecer ferramentas conceituais para o estudo dos movimentos contestatórios à medicalização. Illich aborda a hipertrofia da medicalização na modernidade, ressaltando o efeito de redução da autonomia dos sujeitos, sobretudo pelo fato de as instituições médicas assumirem a responsabilidade de cuidar da dor, transformando seu significado íntimo e pessoal em um problema técnico. Foucault aborda a medicalização a partir da noção de biopoder, e, quando trabalha a noção de governamentalidade, abre espaço para a análise das formas de resistência dos indivíduos ao exercício do poder. Ambos os trabalhos, que têm como preocupação propor formas de exercício da liberdade - apesar de Foucault o fazer de forma mais detalhada e diversificada - parecem apropriados para se pensar o processo atual de desmedicalização ou recusa do diagnóstico médico por parte de seus portadores ou familiares.

  20. La perspectiva teórico-metodológica de Foucault. Algunas notas para investigar al "ADHD"

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    Eugenia Bianchi

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Como objetivo general busco conocer cómo la medicina contribuye a establecer qué es considerado enfermedad. Analizo en particular las condiciones de emergencia y circulación del ADHD -trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad- como trastorno de la conducta en la infancia. En este escrito me propongo introducir algunas de las implicancias y particularidades que se derivan de investigar el fenómeno, haciendo uso de un andamiaje teórico-metodológico subsidiario de los aportes de Michel Foucault. Para ello, reviso una serie de nociones, señalando la pertinencia de su uso para investigar el ADHD. Por tratarse de una presentación preliminar de contenidos, reviste sumo interés ampliar estas primeras argumentaciones, con vistas a generar nuevas hipótesis y líneas de análisis.

  1. Para que serve uma subjetividade? Foucault, tempo e corpo What a subjectivity is useful for? Foucault, time and body

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    Hélio Rebello Cardoso Jr.

    2005-12-01

    Full Text Available 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. Com isso, nossa atenção volta-se para os marcos da definição de subjetividade como processo ou prática, que são a relação com o tempo e a dimensão transformacional ou criativa do corpo. Tal investigação conceitual sobre a subjetividade em Foucault procura indicar, outrossim, de que maneira a criação filosófica está relacionada ao modo de vida ou estilo de um filósofo. O pensamento derradeiro de Foucault é consistente com o estilo que ele vinha construindo no decorrer de sua obra, de modo que se discute a invectiva de que esta última fase, por razões várias, seria o lugar de um retorno do sujeito ou do homem que Foucault havia negado anteriormente.The present article main proposition focuses on the turn made by Foucault when he takes into a new account the theme of the subjectivity, above all in the last two volumes of History of the Sexuality. Henceforth, our attention retraces the two characters of the subjectivity definition as a process or practice, it means, our relationship with the time and the creative or transformative dimension of the body. We argue, then, against the assertion that Foucault's last issue would imply the return of the subject or of the man that he had previously denied, that the last Foucault is consistent with the style that he had been building throughout his past books.

  2. Foucault could have been an operating room nurse.

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    Riley, Robin; Manias, Elizabeth

    2002-08-01

    Operating room nursing is an under-researched area of nursing practice. The stereotypical image of operating room nursing is one of task- and technically-orientated aspects of practice, where nurses work in a medical model and are dominated by constraints from outside their sphere of influence. This paper explores the possibility of understanding operating room nursing in a different way. Using the work of Michel Foucault to analyse the work of operating room nursing, this paper argues the relevance of the framework for a more in-depth analysis of this specialty area of practice. The concepts of power, discipline and subjectivity are used to demonstrate how operating room nursing is constructed as a discipline and how operating room nurses act to govern and construct the specialty. Exemplars are drawn from extensive professional experience, from guidelines of professional operating room nursing associations, as well as published texts. The focus is predominantly on the regulation of space and time to maintain the integrity of the sterile surgical field and issues of management, as well as the use of the ethical concept of the 'surgical conscience'. This form of analysis provides a level and depth of inquiry that has rarely been undertaken in operating room nursing. As such, it has the potential to provide a much needed, different view of operation room nursing that can only help to strengthen its professional foundations and development.

  3. Foucault and Marxism: Rewriting the Theory of Historical Materialism

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    Olssen, Mark

    2004-01-01

    This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault's own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and…

  4. Measuring the Michel parameter ξ''

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    Knowles, P.; Deutsch, J.; Egger, J.; Fetscher, W.; Foroughi, F.; Govaerts, J.; Hadri, M.; Kirch, K.; Kistryn, S.; Lang, J.; Morelle, X.; Naviliat, O.; Ninane, A.; Prieels, R.; Severijns, N.; Simons, L.; Sromicki, J.; Vandormael, S.; Hove, P. van

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    Unlike the majority of Michel parameters which are consistent with the Standard Model V-A interaction, the experimental value of ξ''(=0.65±0.36) [1] is poorly known. Our experiment will measure the longitudinal polarization, P L , of positrons emitted from the decay of polarized muons. The value of P L , equal to unity in the Standard Model, will decrease for high energy positrons emitted antiparallel to the muon spin if the combination of Michel parameters ξ''/ξξ' - 1 deviates from the Standard Model value of zero

  5. Foucault and the politics of our selves.

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    Allen, Amy

    2011-01-01

    Exploring the apparent tension between Foucault's analyses of technologies of domination -- the ways in which the subject is constituted by power-knowledge relations -- and of technologies of the self -- the ways in which individuals constitute themselves through practices of freedom -- this article endeavors to make two points: first, the interpretive claim that Foucault's own attempts to analyse both aspects of the politics of our selves are neither contradictory nor incoherent; and second, the constructive claim that Foucault's analysis of the politics of our selves, though not entirely satisfactory as it stands, provides important resources for the project of critical social theory.

  6. The domestication of Foucault: Government, critique, war.

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    Allen, Ansgar; Goddard, Roy

    2014-12-01

    Though Foucault was intrigued by the possibilities of radical social transformation, he resolutely resisted the idea that such transformation could escape the effects of power and expressed caution when it came to the question of revolution. In this article we argue that in one particularly influential line of development of Foucault's work his exemplary caution has been exaggerated in a way that weakens the political aspirations of post-Foucaldian scholarship. The site of this reduction is a complex debate over the role of normativity in Foucaldian research, where it has been claimed that Foucault's genealogical approach is unable to answer the question ' Why fight? ' The terms of this debate (on the neo-Foucaldian side) are limited by a dominant though selective interpretation of Foucault's analytics of power, where power is understood primarily in terms of government, rather than struggle. In response we suggest that if we reconfigure power-as-government to power-as-war, this adjusts the central concern. ' Why fight? ' becomes replaced by the more immediate question, ' How fight? ' Without denying the obvious benefits of cautious scholarly work, we argue that a reconfiguration of Foucault's analytics of power might help Foucaldian research to transcend the self-imposed ethic of political quietism that currently dominates the field.

  7. The Pedagogical Effect: On Foucault and Sloterdijk

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    Noguera-Ramírez, Carlos Ernesto

    2017-01-01

    Although Foucault did not produce any particular work devoted to teaching or education, following authors like Hoskin this text aims to show the importance that teaching practices and discourses have in Foucault's analysis, particularly in the analysis of what he called governmentality. If we associate these analyses with the concept of…

  8. Foucault: o nascimento do liberalismo

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    Richer Fernando Borges de Souza

    2017-02-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo visa apresentar a genealogia dos dispositivos de poder-saber, que, para Foucault, apontam para o nascimento, para o desenvolvimento, bem como à configuração que o liberalismo e os Estados Modernos apresentam atualmente no Ocidente. Apresentaremos nossa leitura acerca das três primeiras aulas ministradas por Foucault nos dias 10, 17 e 24 de janeiro de 1979 e que, por sua vez, dão início a obra intitulada Nascimento da biopolítica, na qual o autor dá continuidade às suas pesquisas realizadas no âmbito do Collège de France e, particularmente, ao curso que fora ministrado no ano anterior, denominado Segurança, território, população. Neste período de sua produção intelectual, Foucault está atento, decisivamente, às questões concernentes às formas de racionalização e de exercício da soberania política, ou seja, àquilo que ele chamou de a arte de governar. E, será a partir dessas problematizações que iremos ao final sugerir a possibilidade de que estejamos em nosso tempo testemunhando a emergência de um novo campo de relação com o poder político que não fora problematizado por Foucault, a saber, o da mídia.

  9. The meta -physics of Foucault's ethics: succeeding where Levinas fails

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    This essay aims to critically assess the later Foucault's ethical turn by using Levinas's ethical metaphysics as critical yardstick. Foucault's notion of ethical subjectivity constitutes a site of resistance against externally imposed subjugating subject identities. Apart from a practice of freedom, Foucault also insists that it ...

  10. Foucault and the 'Anti-Oedipus movement': psychoanalysis as disciplinary power.

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    Basaure, Mauro

    2009-09-01

    What psychiatry was for the anti-psychiatry movement, psychoanalysis was for the French 'Anti-Oedipus movement' represented by Robert Castel, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Until now, the contribution of Foucault to this critical movement has been little known. In this paper I reconstruct in a systematic and exhaustive way Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis and, in particular, of the Oedipus-complex theory. I demonstrate that this critique presupposes a very specific epistemology and social theory. On an epistemological level, Foucault focuses on the power effects of psychoanalysis as a discourse of subjectivity. On a social-theoretical level, Foucault assumes a functionalist conception of society. These two aspects of Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis have not been adequately recognized in the discussion about his relationship to psychoanalysis (Derrida, Miller, Whitebook, among others). I argue that a fruitful dialogue between a Foucault-inspired critical social theory and psychoanalysis can take place only if these two distinct aspects are taken into account.

  11. A análise do discurso diante de estranhos espelhos: visualidade e (interdiscursividade na pintura

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    Renan Belmonte Mazzola

    2013-11-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo intenciona compreender a dimensão discursiva das pinturas por meio da análise do discurso ancorada em Michel Foucault. Recorta-se a figura do espelho em pinturas canônicas com vistas a observar seu funcionamento discursivo enquanto elemento do enunciado artístico visual. Apresenta três partes: a primeira, que determina o lugar ocupado pelo discurso estético nos trabalhos de Michel Pêcheux e de Michel Foucault; a segunda, que se concentra na análise de três pinturas europeias, a saber, As meninas, de Velásquez; Um bar em Folies-Bergère, de Manet; e As ligações perigosas, de Magritte; e a terceira parte, que discute a intersecção entre visualidade e interdiscursividade a partir (a das reflexões de M. Foucault acerca do discurso estético e (b da figura do espelho presente nessas pinturas.

  12. "Finding Foucault": Orders of Discourse and Cultures of the Self

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    Besley, A. C.

    2015-01-01

    The idea of finding Foucault first looks at the many influences on Foucault, including his Nietzschean acclamations. It examines Foucault's critical history of thought, his work on the orders of discourse with his emphasis on being a pluralist: the problem he says that he has set himself is that of the individualization of discourses. Finally, it…

  13. Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham.

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    Rocha, Leon Antonio

    2011-09-01

    This paper begins with a discussion of the scientia sexualis/ars erotica distinction, which Foucault first advances in History of Sexuality Vol. 1, and which has been employed by many scholars to do a variety of analytical work. Though Foucault has expressed his doubts regarding his conceptualization of the differences between Western and Eastern discourses of desire, he never entirely disowns the distinction. In fact, Foucault remains convinced that China must have an ars erotica. I will explore Foucault's sources of authority. To this end, I introduce the work of famous Dutch sinologist Robert Hans van Gulik, who published the tremendously influential Sexual Life in Ancient China in 1961, and also explore Joseph Needham's view on Chinese sex. I argue that, Foucault, in his fierce polemic against the "Repressive Hypothesis", himself imagined a utopian Other where pleasure and desire were organised differently. I end on a discuss on Orientalism and the project of "Sinography" of comparative literature scholars Haun Saussy, Eric Hayot and others. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  14. Wavefront-error evaluation by mathematical analysis of experimental Foucault-test data

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    Wilson, R. G.

    1975-01-01

    The diffraction theory of the Foucault test provides an integral formula expressing the complex amplitude and irradiance distribution in the Foucault pattern of a test mirror (lens) as a function of wavefront error. Recent literature presents methods of inverting this formula to express wavefront error in terms of irradiance in the Foucault pattern. The present paper describes a study in which the inversion formulation was applied to photometric Foucault-test measurements on a nearly diffraction-limited mirror to determine wavefront errors for direct comparison with ones determined from scatter-plate interferometer measurements. The results affirm the practicability of the Foucault test for quantitative wavefront analysis of very small errors, and they reveal the fallacy of the prevalent belief that the test is limited to qualitative use only. Implications of the results with regard to optical testing and the potential use of the Foucault test for wavefront analysis in orbital space telescopes are discussed.

  15. Review: Hanna Meißner (2010. Jenseits des autonomen Subjekts. Zur gesellschaftlichen Konstitution von Handlungsfähigkeit [Beyond Human Autonomy. The Social Constitution of Agency Based on Butler, Foucault and Marx

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    Lisa Pfahl

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    Full Text Available Based on the theories of Judith BUTLER, Michel FOUCAULT, and Karl MARX, Hanna MEIßNER analyzes the historical, legal and social conditions of the emergence of subjectivity. She establishes a critical understanding of human autonomy and the potential of practices of resistance in the context of existing conditions. Both MEIßNER's analytical structure and her precise argumentation are convincing. By highlighting the relationship of individual self-determination and collective welfare, this study provides helpful links to different theoretical approaches, particularly to the emerging disciplines of disability studies and diversity studies in Germany. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1202181

  16. Sobre dois conceitos de Foucault

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    Sirio Possenti

    2007-11-01

    Full Text Available 0 objetivo deste trabalho é defender uma certa leitura de Foucault, em especial no que se refere aos conceitos de saber e de verdade, frequentemente tomados em sentido corrente. A razão é que, se Foucault for lido assim, algumas de suas hipóteses perdem completamente seu vigor e sua produtividade, tomando-se inúteis para perceber — e este é um de seus propósitos — a especificidade do funcionamento de certos discursos, seja no que se refere a sua forma de produção quanto no que se refere as relações entre os discursos.

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    Staunæs, Dorthe; Juelskjær, Malou

    2016-01-01

    In the seminal book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977) French philosopher Michel Foucault described how the psy-disciplines—his collective term for psychiatry, psychology, psycho-analysis and other psycho-therapies—became entangled in new forms of government. 18th and 19th cent...... following simple rules and propositions internal to scientific discovery. As Michel Foucault indicated, and, as has since been elaborated by Nikolas Rose (1998, 1999), among others, educational institutions and actors have been, and continue to be, central to the continuation of the psy...

  18. Foucault and the rotation of the Earth

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    Sommeria, Joël

    2017-11-01

    In February 1851, Léon Foucault published in the Comptes rendus his famous pendulum experiment performed at the "Observatoire de Paris". This ended two centuries of quest for an experimental demonstration of Earth rotation. One month later, the experiment was reproduced at larger scale in the Panthéon and, as early as the summer of 1851, it was being repeated in many places across the world. The next year, Foucault invented the gyroscope to get a still more direct proof of Earth rotation. The theory relied on the masterpiece treatise of Laplace on celestial mechanics, published in 1805, which already contained the mathematical expression of the force that would be discovered by Gustave Coriolis 30 years later. The idea of a fictitious inertial force proposed by Coriolis prevailed by the end of 19th century, as it was conceptually simpler than Laplace's approach. The full theory of the Foucault pendulum, taking into account its unavoidable imperfections, was not obtained until three decades later by Kamerlingh Onnes, the future discoverer of liquid helium and superconductivity. Today, Foucault's exceptional creativity is still a source of inspiration for research and the promotion of science through experimental proofs widely available to the public.

  19. Foucault e a pesquisa educacional em arte

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    Marcilio de Souza Vieira

    2008-09-01

    Full Text Available Este texto objetiva compreender como a obra de Foucault pode contribuir para a pesquisa educacional reconhecendo essas contribuições para o conhecimento na área da educação. Medéia e Hamlet, respectivamente dos tragediógrafos Eurípides e Shakespeare são possibilidades de exploração da loucura, da sexualidade e da linguagem que podemos encontrar nas obras de Foucault. Pensamos esta abordagem como lições que norteiam o pensamento de Foucault acerca da pesquisa educacional em Arte, embora o filósofo não tenha escrito sobre educação, mas exemplifica em suas obras, artistas e obras de arte que nos ajudam a compreender a loucura, a linguagem e a sexualidade e discuti-las nas aulas de Arte, em especial, nas aulas de teatro.

  20. Detenção: As relações de poder entre encarcerados e carcereiros a partir dos estudos de Goffman e Foucault

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    Johanna Gondar Hildenbrand

    2014-12-01

    O artigo tem a proposta de discutir as relações de poder entre encarcerados e carcereiros nas instituições penais a partir do filme Detenção (The Experiment, 2010, EUA, de Paul Scheuring. Partimos dos conceitos “instituição total” e “forma-prisão” estabelecidos por Erving Goffman e Michel Foucault, respectivamente, a fim de refletirmos sobre a forma pela qual o poder é estabelecido e exercido entre e dentro desses dois grupos (encarcerados e carcereiros. A partir do filme buscamos observar as consequências do poder cedido pela instituição aos carcereiros, tidos aqui como uma equipe dirigente, e de que forma esse mesmo poder age no grupo dos prisioneiros levando-o progressivamente à modificação da subjetividade enquanto anulação do eu civil.

  1. Governar pela crítica: O reformismo carcerário em Vigiar e Punir

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    José César de Magalhães Jr.

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    Full Text Available O artigo propõe uma leitura de Vigiar e Punir assentada sobre a perspectiva do reformismo como uma forma de governo. Para tanto, à luz dos cursos publicados posteriormente ao livro e, sobretudo, da obra Vigiar e Punir, estabelece-se a necessidade de uma análise da dimensão estratégica de Michel Foucault. Por fim, procura-se discutir o que seria a proposta de uma contra crítica do reformismo liberalismo utópico. The article Governing Thought Critic: Prison Reformism in Discipline and Punish proposes a reading of the book Discipline and Punish based on the perspective of the reformism as a form of government. To do so, we highlight the Discipline and Punish writings and the courses published after the book, to establish the need for an analysis of the strategic dimension in the thought of Michel Foucault. Finally, we try to discuss what would be the approach of a counter-criticism of utopian liberalism reformism.Keywords: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, govern, reformism, strategy

  2. Teaching and Learning Projects as 'Heterotopias' | Gosling | Critical ...

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    This paper seeks to explore some persistent issues which impact on externally funded teaching and learning projects. The discussion considers these issues using the lens of „heterotopias‟, a concept introduced by Michel Foucault. Utilising insights from Foucault's suggestive comments about „heterotopias‟, the paper ...

  3. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Neo-Liberalism: Assessing Foucault's Legacy.

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    2003-01-01

    Traces Foucault's distinctive commitment to "post-structuralism." Argues that under the influence of Nietzsche, Foucault's approach marks a distinct break with structuralism in several crucial aspects. What results is a materialist post-structuralism that is also distinctively different from the post-structuralism of Derrida, Lyotard,…

  4. De una ética pequeñísima: sobre algunos giros en relación al acontecimiento/A tiny ethic on some turns related to event

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    Gonzalo Percovich

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available El artículo se propone transitar por algunos rasgos del concepto de acontecimiento, concepto central de la teoría estoica. Noción que se desprende del desarrollo lógico que el mismo despliega y que tiene consecuencias esenciales en su modo de abordar la ética. Esta particularidad es señalada, en distintos sesgos, tanto por Gilles Deleuze como por Michel Foucault. Gilles Deleuze destacará la vertiente dialéctica del mismo, adscribiéndolo a la práctica adivinatoria; así Michel Foucault se detendrá en incluir el concepto en el marco de la práctica de los ejercicios espirituales estoicos. Aun así, serán los dos autores citados los que apelarán a proponer un nuevo tipo de ética que denominarán con una ética inmanente. The paper aims to pass through some features of the concept of event, the central concept of the Stoic theory. Notion that loosens from the logic development itself and that unfolds and has essential consequences in their approach to ethics. This peculiarity is pointed at different biases, both by Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Gilles Deleuze will highlight the dialectical aspect of it, ascribing it to divination practice, and Michel Foucault will stop to include the concept in the framework of a practice of Stoics spiritual exercises. Still, will be the two authors cited who will appeal to propose a new type of ethics referred to as an immanent ethics.

  5. A Fearsome Trap: The Will to Know, the Obligation to Confess, and the Freudian Subject of Desire

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    Ambrosio, John

    2010-01-01

    The author examines the relation between Michel Foucault's corpus and Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Foucault had a complex and changing relationship to psychoanalysis for two primary reasons: his own psychopathology, personal experience, and expressed desire, and due to an ineluctable contradiction at the heart of psychoanalysis itself.…

  6. Foucault's and Arendt's "insider view" of biopolitics: a critique of Agamben.

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    Blencowe, Claire

    2010-01-01

    This article revisits Arendt's and Foucault's converging accounts of modern (bio)politics and the entry of biological life into politics. Agamben's influential account of these ideas is rejected as a misrepresentation both because it de-historicizes biological/organic life and because it occludes the positivity of that life and thus the discursive appeal and performative force of biopolitics. Through attention to the genealogy of Arendt's and Foucault's own ideas we will see that the major point of convergence in their thinking is their insistence upon understanding biological thinking from the inside, in terms of its positivity. Agamben's assessment of modern politics is closer to Arendt's than it is to Foucault's and this marks a fascinating point of disagreement between Arendt and Foucault. Whereas Arendt sees the normalizing force of modern society as being in total opposition to individuality, Foucault posits totalization and individuation as processes of normation, which casts a light upon the relative import they place upon politics and ethics.

  7. Foucault's Toolbox: Critical Insights for Education and Technology Researchers

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    Hope, Andrew

    2015-01-01

    Despite having been a prolific academic, whose work exerts considerable cross-discipline influence, the ideas of Foucault are largely neglected in educational technology scholarship. Having provided an initial brief overview of the sparse use of Foucault's work in this sub-field, this paper then seeks to generate new understandings, arguing that…

  8. Derrida, Foucault and “Madness, the Absence of an Œuvre”

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    Full Text Available This article argues that Foucault's 1964 paper “La folie, l'absence d'œuvre” ought to be understood as a response to Derrida's 1963 paper “Cogito et histoire de la folie”. I clarify the chronology of the exchange between these two thinkers and follow commentators Bennington and Flynn in emphasising themes other than the status of madness in Descartes. I undertake a thematic investigation of Foucault's 1961 characterisation of madness as the absence of an œuvre and the role of this characterisation in Derrida's 1963 paper. Then I turn to an investigation of Foucault's substantial change in position on these key themes with his 1964 paper. I argue that Foucault seeks to minimise the initial importance he attributed to his characterisation of madness as the absence of an œuvre, altering his understanding of the relation between madness and language as well as shifting the event that silences madness from Descartes to Freud. Derrida's reconsideration of Foucault's Folie et déraison in 1991 treats Freud as the new locus of the exchange. This is an implicit recognition by Derrida of Foucault's “La folie, l'absence d'œuvre” and confirmation of its place within the exchange.

  9. Beyond Subjection: Notes on the Later Foucault and Education

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    Leask, Ian

    2012-01-01

    This article argues against the doxa that Foucault's analysis of education inevitably undermines self-originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault's lesser known, later work--in particular, the notion of "biopower" and the deepened level of materiality it entails--the article shows how the earlier…

  10. "I 'See' Trayvon Martin": What Teachers Can Learn from the Tragic Death of a Young Black Male

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    Love, Bettina L.

    2014-01-01

    The goal of this article is to examine the racially hostile environment of U.S. public schooling towards Black males. Drawing on the work of Foucault ("Discipline and punish. The birth of the prison," Penguin Books, London, 1977; "Michel Foucault: beyond structuralism and hermeneutics," The Harvester Press, Brighton, 1982)…

  11. The Confessing Academic and Living the Present Otherwise: Appraisal Interviews and Logbooks in Academia

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    Fejes, Andreas

    2016-01-01

    In this paper, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, I argue that academics are enmeshed in power relations in which confession operates, both "on" and "through" academics. Drawing on Foucault's genealogy of confession, I illustrate how academics are not only invited to reflect on performance, faults, temptations and desires…

  12. An Emancipatory Role of Adult Education and Learning within a Poststructuralist Approach

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    Jensen, Anne Winther

    The paper discusses the possibility of perceiving a poststructuralist approach to learning as being emancipatory. ‘Identity’ is the main concept of the paper, and theoretically the paper draws on Michel Foucault and Bronwyn Davies. With an outset in Foucault´s comments on some of Immanuel Kant´s...

  13. Reconfiguring the Optics of the Critical Gaze in Science Education (After the Critique of Critique): (Re)Thinking "What Counts" through Foucaultian Prismatics

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    Higgins, Marc

    2018-01-01

    The purpose of this article is to explore what Michel Foucault refers to as "the" critical attitude and its relationship to science education, drawing from Foucault's (The politics of truth. Semiotext(e), New York, 1997) insight that "the" critical attitude is but "a" critical attitude. This article is a rejoinder to…

  14. Archeology and Humanism: An Incongruent Foucault

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    Chris Calvert-Minor

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available Atension exists in Foucault’s writings concerning his alleged antihumanism. While his early archaeological period is taken to sediment his post-structuralist, anti-humanist methodology, Foucault still lets humanism creep into his writing, particularly in his later work. In the spirit of charity, I consider two ways of reading Foucault to overcome this tension: either (1 emphasize his post-structuralism over his humanist leanings or (2 take his humanism seriously and minimize his post-structuralism. After analysis, neither reading is adequate. I conclude that Foucault’s oeuvre is best understood simply as incongruent, contrary to his own remarks to unify his writings and methodologies.

  15. Foucault und das Recht: Besprechung von: Christian Schauer, Aufforderung zum Spiel. Foucault und das Recht, Böhlau (Weimar, Köln, Wien 2006, 383 Seiten.

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    Thomas Biebricher

    2007-04-01

    Full Text Available Der Autor rekonstruiert Foucaults Werk zwischen den Jahren 1961 und 1975 und integriert hierbei Perspektiven anderer Autoren (Derrida, Luhmann und Nietzsche, welche zu verwandten Themenkreisen arbeiten und/oder Foucaults Herangehensweise geprägt haben. Eigentliches Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Foucaults Beitrag zur Rechtsgeschichte und –soziologie zu beleuchten. Diese Thematik ist im deutschen Sprachraum bis jetzt kaum systematisch untersucht worden, und dementsprechend gebührt Schauers Studie besondere Beachtung. Der Autor betont Foucaults Ausführungen zum Verhältnis zwischen Recht und Psychiatrie. Dessen Diagnose hebt die “Kolonisierung” des Rechts durch forensisch psychiatrische Diskurse hervor, und Schauer gelingt es, die problematische Dimension dieser Tendenz mit Hinweis auf die schweizerische Rechtspraxis plausibel zu machen. Fluchtpunkt dieser Entwicklung wäre ein bis zum Extrem “vorbeugendes” Recht, das Gefahrenprävention und Risikoregulierung durch präemptive Verhaltensregulierung den Vorzug vor dem Legalitätsprinzip gewährt.

  16. Pleasure, power and dangerous substances: applying Foucault to the study of 'heroin dependence' in Germany.

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    Bergschmidt, Viktoria B

    2004-04-01

    Taking the observation of disciplining and controlling everyday practices of methadone substitution as a point of departure, this paper explores the question of what exactly is so threatening or dangerous about heroin and heroin users. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, the main argument of this article is that the danger of heroin use is a discursive construction in accordance with bio-power. On the one hand, the juridical governance of heroin dependence is shifting from punishment to therapy, and biomedical discourses proclaim the substitution of a moral notion of heroin dependence by a disease model. Nevertheless, in the context of the anxiety associated with HIV, heroin remains the dangerous drug par excellence, and heroin users are constructed as 'abject others', unable to subordinate to certain social norms. As a reaction to such injurious ascriptions, I argue, applicants to the methadone programme in their life stories intensely narrate a desire for normalization, which I read as a desire to emerge from the realm of the abject. Both the danger and the pleasure associated with heroin use are bound to fundamental processes of subject formation, which are often ignored in biomedical and anthropological discourses.

  17. Muslim women in the western media: Foucault, agency, governmentality and ethics

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    This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood’s The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, employ the later Foucault’s ethical theory. By explaining the theoretical framework of the ‘middle’ Foucault (governmentality and agency) and the ‘later’ Foucault (ethics and agency) and then comparing Mahmood and Heyes’ use of Foucault’s work, it is argued that Mahmood and Heyes’ analy...

  18. A LINGUAGEM DOS SITES DE RELACIONAMENTO: UMA PERSPECTIVA DISCURSIVA

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    Full Text Available This paper analyzes the “language” of three social networking sites through the French Discourse Analysis, derived from the work of Michel Pêcheux and Michel Foucault. In order to understand the language of such sites, we described and interpreted the utterances that compose them, then glimpsing their discourses.

  19. Writing the Self: Ethical Self-Formation and the Undefined Work of Freedom

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    Ambrosio, John

    2008-01-01

    In this essay, John Ambrosio examines the role of ascetic writing practices in Michel Foucault's conception of ethical self-formation. Ambrosio argues for an interpretation of Foucault's later writings as representative of both an extension, and a dramatic break, from his previous writings--from demolishing the subject to embracing the notion of…

  20. The Foucault-Habermas Debate: the Reflexive and Receptive Aspects of Critique

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    Hansen, Ejvind

    2005-01-01

    In this paper I discuss the relationship between two different approaches to critical theory – the reflective and the receptive approaches. I show how it can be fruitful to discuss the relationship between Habermas and Foucault through this distinction. My point is that whereas Habermas focusses...... on critique as a reflexive activity, Foucault mainly focusses on the receptive conditions for critique to be possible. I argue further that Foucault focusses on the receptive aspects of critique, the quest for universality is not as pressing as it is in Habermas’ approach, because problematizing critique can...

  1. Tentang Ruang-Ruang yang Lain (atau Heterotopia

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    Michel Foucault

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    Full Text Available Artikel ini merupakan terjemahan, yang kesekian kalinya ke dalam bahasa Inggris (lih. J. Miskowiec [1986], Jurnal Lotus [1986], & R. Hurley [1998], dari sebuah kuliah bertajuk “Des espaces autres” yang disampaikan Michel Foucault pada 14 Maret 1967 untuk Cercle d’études architecturales (Lingkar Studi Arsitektur. Dalam kuliah tersebut Foucault menguraikan konseptualisasinya tentang ruang-ruang yang lain, atau heterotopia. Foucault menyebutkan ciri-ciri heterotopia sebagai panduan untuk melakukan analisis relasi ruang dan kekuasan.

  2. Measurement of the Michel Parameters in Leptonic Tau Decays

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    The Michel parameters of the leptonic tau decays are measured using the OPAL detector at LEP. The Michel parameters are extracted from the energy spectra of the charged decay leptons and from their energy-energy correlations. A new method involving a global likelihood fit of Monte Carlo generated events with complete detector simulation and background treatment has been applied to the data recorded at center-of-mass energies close to sqrt(s) = M(Z) corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 155 pb-1 during the years 1990 to 1995. If e-mu universality is assumed and inferring the tau polarization from neutral current data, the measured Michel parameters are extracted. Limits on non-standard coupling constants and on the masses of new gauge bosons are obtained. The results are in agreement with the V-A prediction of the Standard Model.

  3. Historia y crítica en la transformación ética de los sujetos. Michel Foucault, 1926–1984

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    Full Text Available Como reconocimiento a los aportes de Foucault a la investigación histórica, este análisis relaciona historia y crítica con la comprensión del funcionamiento de la subjetividad moderna y contemporánea, con el fin de descifrar la forma como este autor revela las matrices de subjetivación que nos constituyen como sujetos modernos. La analítica de sus obras permite entender la coherencia de su objetivo al relacionar el trabajo histórico con la comprensión minuciosa del presente, y así ubicarse en una línea de trabajo establecida por Kant. Lo cual implica entender relaciones problemáticas, como las que establecemos entre su comprensión del mundo greco-romano y la búsqueda de formas históricas de vida que permitan construir posiciones de sujeto frente a las situaciones contemporáneas de los mundos neoliberales, orientadas a darle un sentido al discurso histórico asociándolo a la búsqueda de una fundamentación ética de la existencia.

  4. The Relevance of Foucauldian Art-of-Living for Ethics Education in a Military Context: Theory and Practice

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    van Baarle, Eva; Verweij, Desiree; Molewijk, Bert; Widdershoven, Guy

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    How can ethical decision-making in organizations be further reinforced? This article explores the relevance of Michel Foucault's ideas on art-of-living for ethics education in organizations. First, we present a theoretical analysis of art-of-living in the work of Foucault as well as in the work of two philosophers who greatly influenced his work,…

  5. Ethical Leadership Development as Care of the Self: A Foucauldian Perspective

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    Pignatelli, Frank

    2015-01-01

    This essay addresses the care of the self as an important aspect in the development of educational leaders. It draws upon Michel Foucault's analysis of power and its relationship to his understanding of ethics as a practice one cultivates and takes on in the interests of leadership development. Foucault's work in these areas is timely for graduate…

  6. Literature and Salvation in Elizabeth Costello Or How to Refuse to ...

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    What is an author? “The function of an author,” Michel Foucault famously pronounced in 1969, “is to characterize the existence, circulation, and operation of certain discourses within a society” (124). Foucault provides a template for inquiry into a certain period of literature, the age of the idealistic author.2 To understand that ...

  7. Foucault Dissipation in a Rolling Cylinder: A Webcam Quantitative Study

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    Bonanno, A.; Bozzo, G.; Camarca, M.; Sapia, P.

    2011-01-01

    In this paper we present an experimental strategy to measure the micro power dissipation due to Foucault "eddy" currents in a copper cylinder rolling on two parallel conductive rails in the presence of a magnetic field. Foucault power dissipation is obtained from kinematical measurements carried out by using a common PC webcam and video analysis…

  8. Hamartia: Foucault And Iran 1978–1979 (2: Scholarship and ...

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    Against the backdrop of the introduction and analysis of Foucault's Iran writings in the fi rst of two articles, this second article attempts to contribute to an understanding of Foucault's involvement in the revolution in Iran (1978–1979) by 1) employing the concluding suggestions in the fi rst article as premises for 2) an analysis ...

  9. Hamartia: Foucault and Iran 1978–1979 (1: Introduction and texts ...

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    perspectives on the inherent risks of modernity. Foucault's journalistic writings on Iran in 1978 to 1979 are therefore to be appreciated as essentially philosophical contributions to his extensive modern-critical oeuvre. Foucault's perspectives on power, revolt, Otherness, 'political spirituality' and his 'ethics of Self-discomfort' ...

  10. Michele Ferro-Luzzi (1938-2015)

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    We have learned with great sorrow of the passing away, on 11 May, of Michele Ferro-Luzzi, an engineer well-known to many physicists working at CERN from the late 1960s to the early 2000s.   Michele was born in Rome in 1938. He attended primary and secondary schools in Asmara (Eritrea), where his family had moved to in 1939, and then he went to the University of Rome where he obtained a "laurea" in electronic engineering in 1962. After completing his military service he was hired by CERN, in 1965, in the applied physics group, created by the Nuclear Physics (NP) Division Leader, Peter Preiswerk, to support physics teams in the design and construction of detectors, which were becoming more and more complex at that time. Michele’s primary interest was the design of particle beams. He became an expert in beam optics and in all kinds of beam components. For twenty-five years he was the best-known member of his group, involved in nearly all its&nb...

  11. O Édipo de Foucault não é o de Freud/El Edipo de Foucault no es de Freud

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    Marcelo Ricardo Pereira

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    Full Text Available O Édipo, como o homem que sabia demais, era por isso o homem da ignorância. Foucault, diferente de Freud, estabelece um Édipo historicizado no tempo da passagem da forma jurídica do “regime de provas” à do “sistema de inquérito”, culminando no que chamou de o “exame” – nome lacônico que dá às ciências humanas. Porém, não há como mencionar a tragédia sofocliana sem tocar na hermenêutica psicanalítica, e sobre isso Foucault é implacável: a Psicanálise é um dispositivo discursivo de poder, uma ciência disciplinar, contendora do desejo. Mas a Psicanálise não deve ser emparelhada à Psiquiatria, por exemplo. A “razão” freudiana reside justamente numa tensão paradoxal entre dar voz à singularidade e, ao mesmo tempo, reafirmar universais históricos da cultura. Édipo não é uma nosografia, mas o que detém um “saber que não se sabe”: o do inconsciente. Se ele é o homem do inconsciente em Freud, em Foucault ele será o da ignorância. Nisso, ambos se confluem: o homem moderno para sempre está “dissolvido”. Edipo, como el hombre que sabía demasiado, era el hombre de la ignorancia. Foucault, a diferencia de Freud, establece un Edipo historizado en el tiempo de la pasaje de la forma jurídica del "régimen de pruebas" al “sistema de averiguación", que culmina en lo que él llamó la "examem" - nombre lacónico que él da a las humanidades. Sin embargo, no se menciona la tragedia de Sófocles, sin tocar en la hermenéutica del psicoanálisis, y Foucault es implacable: el psicoanálisis es un dispositivo discursivo del poder, una ciencia disciplinar, contendiente del deseo. Pero el psicoanálisis no debería ser emparejados a la psiquiatría, por ejemplo. La "razón" freudiana reside en una tensión paradójica entre dar voz a la singularidad y, al mismo tiempo, reafirmar los universales históricos de la cultura. Edipo no es una nosografia, pero lo que tiene un "saber que no se sabe": el

  12. Foucault versus Habermas: Modernity as an unfinished endeavor vs. the theory of power: An inevitable conflict or possibility of communication

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    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available The paper considers the possibility of detecting points of contact between Michel Foucault’s theory of power and the theory of communicative agency formed by Jurgen Habermas. In the beginning, the development of the philosophical discourse of modernity, which Habermas analyzes in his work bearing the same title, is laid out, with the aim to gain insight into the nature of Habermas’s critique of Foucault. After having reviewed some of the basis of Foucault’s theory, the author points out Habermas’s depiction of the theory of power as the pinnacle of Nietzschean, anti - modernist stream of the philosophical discourse. The critique is based on Habermas’s assumption that Foucault’s analyses of power fails to comprehend the complexity of modernity. Foucault, according to Habermas, over - emphasizes one dimension of the process of modernization - gradual strengthening of the disciplinatory power based on the "control of the spirit". The author, however, wishes to point out the importance the theory of power ascribes to the preservation of insight into the complexity of history. Through the insight into multiple and divergent nature of historical processes that are responsible for the formation of modern society, the individual becomes historically self - conscious and able to step out of the paradigm of self - relating subject. As the theory of communicative agency also tends to transcend the "limits of the subject - philosophy", the author concludes that Foucault’s work is, to the same extent as Habermas’s, imbued with the idea of "modernity as an unrealized undertaking". Towards the end of the paper the author analyzes Foucault’s relation to Enlightenment, in order to show the essentially modern nature of his thought.

  13. Individual perception and cultural development: Foucault's 1954 approach to mental illness and its history.

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    Joranger, Line

    2016-02-01

    In his 1954 book Mental Illness and Personality Foucault combines the subjective experience of the mentally ill person with a sociocultural historical approach to mental illness and suggests that there exists a reciprocal connection between individual perception and sociocultural development. This article examines the ramifications of these connections in Foucault's 1954 works and the connection with his later historical works. The article also examines the similarities between Foucault's 1954 thoughts and contemporary intellectual thought, such as those outlined in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and in Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem's historical epistemology. In sum, my study shows that Foucault's historical analysis began long before his 1961 dissertation History of Madness. It also shows that, more than announcing the "death" of the subject, Foucault's historical analysis may have contributed to saving it. (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

  14. Foucault as Complexity Theorist: Overcoming the Problems of Classical Philosophical Analysis

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    Olssen, Mark

    2008-01-01

    This article explores the affinities and parallels between Foucault's Nietzschean view of history and models of complexity developed in the physical sciences in the twentieth century. It claims that Foucault's rejection of structuralism and Marxism can be explained as a consequence of his own approach which posits a radical ontology whereby the…

  15. Las articulaciones del poder en la literatura mexicana del narcotráfico

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    José Manuel Torres Torres

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    Full Text Available En el artículo, a partir de las ideas de Michel Foucault sobre las relaciones de poder se revisa el modo en que estas se articulan y representan en el narcotráfico mexicano, a través del estudio de las novelas Tiempo de alacranes de Bernardo Fernández y Puesta en escena de Gabriel Trujillo. En ese sentido la propuesta sostiene que las relaciones de poder tienen como base fundamental dos postulados que son: el ejercicio de estrategias y la movilidad.Through the study of Bernardo Fernandezs novel “Tiempo de Alacranes” and Gabriel Trujillo!s “Puesta en escena”, and based on Michel Foucault!s ideas on the relations of power, this study goes though the ways these join together in Mexican narcotraffic. In this sense, the article backs-up the idea that the relations of power are based on two concepts: practice of strategies and mobility.

  16. [The history of the psychiatry not told by Foucault].

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    Freitas, Fernando Ferreira Pinto de

    2004-01-01

    The article proposes a revision of the approach to madness and the birth of the psychiatric institution taken by Foucault in History of Madness. The hypothesis is that the origins of modern Psychiatry revolutionize the approach to madness by proposing it is possible to dialogue with the insane, because the madman is not someone who has lost his reason . It is hoped that this critique of Foucault's book will be a contribution to the process of psychiatric reform currently underway in Brazil.

  17. A crítica de ponta-cabeça: sobre a significação de Kant no pensamento de Foucault The critique turned upside-down: about the significance of Kant in Foucault's thought

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    Alexandre Alves

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo pretende avaliar a relação que Foucault estabelece com a modernidade, tendo como fio condutor seu vínculo com o pensamento de Kant. Aborda-se, num primeiro momento, a leitura que Foucault faz de Kant na época em que estava escrevendo As Palavras e as Coisas, observando uma tensão entre o projeto crítico e o antropologismo kantiano e, num segundo momento, interroga-se sua relação com Kant a partir de alguns de seus últimos textos, nos quais Foucault procura uma "ontologia do presente".This paper intends to evaluate the relationship Foucault establishes regarding modernity, taking as guide-line his link with Kant's thought. We approach, at a first moment, the interpretation Foucault gives from Kant in the period he was writing The Order of Things, remarking the tension between the critical project and the Kantian antropologism and, in a second moment, we question his relationship to Kant through some of his last texts, where Foucault is looking for an "ontology of the present".

  18. FOUCAULT: uma introdução às artes da existência

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    Ramon Taniguchi Piretti Brandão

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    Full Text Available Em seus últimos estudos, Foucault se debruçou sobre a questão do cuidado de si, retornando à Antiguidade Clássica para [re]pensar a ética moderna nos termos de uma ontologia crítica do momento presente. O autor nos revela que o processo de subjetivação do indivíduo, na tomada de uma posição ética, caminha na direção de uma estética da vida. Assim, a ética em Foucault apresenta-se como estética da existência, como liberdade possível no fazer-se existir. Dizer-a-verdade a si próprio, desprender-se de si mesmo, estilizar a vida, num processo de constituição moral, caracterizam, fortemente, a estética da existência foucaultiana. Palavras-chave: Estética; Ética; Artes da Existência; Cuidado de si; Ontologia.   FOUCAULT: Introduction to the art of the existence ABSTRACT In his later studies, Foucault addressed the issue of self-care, returning to Classical Antiquity to re-think the modern ethics in terms of a critical ontology of the present moment. The author tells us that the individual's subjective process, in making an ethical position, walks toward an aesthetics of life. Thus, ethical Foucault presents as aesthetics of existence as possible freedom in making up exists. Tell the truth to yourself, loosen up yourself, stylize life, a moral constitution process, characterize strongly the Foucault’s aesthetics of existence. Keywords: Esthetics; Ethics; Art of the Existence; Self Care; Ontology.   FOUCAULT: Una introducción a las artes de la existencia RESUMEN En sus últimos estudios, Foucault abordó la cuestión de auto-cuidado, volviendo a la Antiguedad Clásica a replantear la ética moderna en términos de una ontologia crítica de la actualidad. El autor nos dice que proceso subjetivo del individuo, en la toma de una posición ética, se mueve hasta una estética de la vida. Así, la ética de Foucault se presenta como una estética de la existencia, como liberdad posible en la existencia. Decir la verdad a s

  19. Clausewitz and Foucault: war and power

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    considers what at first sight appears to be Foucault's reversal of Clausewitz, but ... be understood on the basis of "the necessity of combat and the rules of strategy" ... What this joint rejection of the principle of polarity suggests is that neither war.

  20. FOUCAULT: O SILÊNCIO DOS SUJEITOS

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    José Carlos Bruni

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    Full Text Available Este pequeno estudo mostra como Foucault, ao romper com as filosofias tradicionais do sujeito - o marxismo, o existencialismo, o positivismo -, empenha-se na reconstituição histórico-social das tecnologias da sujeição, sem apontar os caminhos possíveis da libertação dos oprimidos. Crime e loucura surgem como figuras do mal e da desrazão, prisão e manicômio circunscrevem espaços da exclusão total, instituições estratégicas para se compreender os fundamentos da ordem social. Recusando-se a dar voz ao silêncio dos sujeitos, Foucault coloca, de modo radical, a questão da representação, convidando-nos a uma nova reflexão sobre o papel específico do intelectual e do político em geral.

  1. O Édipo de Foucault não é o de FreudEl Edipo de Foucault no es de Freud

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    Pereira, Marcelo Ricardo

    2010-01-01

    O Édipo, como o homem que sabia demais, era por isso o homem da ignorância. Foucault, diferente de Freud, estabelece um Édipo historicizado no tempo da passagem da forma jurídica do “regime de provas” à do “sistema de inquérito”, culminando no que chamou de o “exame” – nome lacônico que dá às ciências humanas. Porém, não há como mencionar a tragédia sofocliana sem tocar na hermenêutica psicanalítica, e sobre isso Foucault é implacável: a Psicanálise é um dispositivo discursivo de poder, uma c...

  2. A ideologia de Marx e o discurso de Foucault: convergências e distanciamentos Marx's ideology and Foucault's discourse: convergence and distanciation

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    Sérgio Bacchi Machado

    2010-04-01

    Full Text Available Efetua-se um mapeamento dos conceitos de ideologia e discurso nas obras de Marx e Foucault, respectivamente. Procede-se também a uma recapitulação da análise marxiana da inversão das leis de apropriação como substrato da destruição de uma forma ideológica específica; assim como se retoma, na obra foucaultiana, a arqueologia da relação médico-paciente como exemplo de configuração de um determinado campo discursivo. Por fim, indica-se um distanciamento e uma convergência entre os conceitos em questão.This paper identifies the concepts of ideology and discourse in the works of Marx and Foucault, respectively. It summarizes the Marxist analysis of the reversal of the laws of property as a consequence of the destruction of a specific ideology; and presents the archeology of the doctor-patient relationship, from the work of Foucault, as an example of the configuration of a particular discursive field. To conclude, the paper points to a distanciation and a convergence between the concepts in question.

  3. Praxis and Agency in Foucault's Historiography

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    Fendler, Lynn

    2004-01-01

    This paper examines the consequences for agency that Foucault's historiographical approach constructs. The analysis begins by explaining the difference between "legislative history" and "exemplary history," drawing parallels to similar theoretical distinctions offered in the works of Max Weber, J.L. Austin, and Zygmunt Bauman. The analysis…

  4. Foucault's Heterotopia and Children's Everyday Lives.

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    McNamee, Sara

    2000-01-01

    Discusses Foucault's notion of "heterotopia"--real places but which exist unto themselves, such as a floating ship. Considers data on children's use of computer and video games to apply "heterotopia" to children's everyday social lives. Argues that childhood is subject to increasing boundaries, and that children create…

  5. Repensar la criminología con Luhmann, Lang, Foucault

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    Luciano Nuzzo

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available El tema que el artículo afronta es: ¿cuál es el objeto de la criminología? Para responder a esta pregunta es necesario analizar el estatuto epistemológico delsaber criminológico. Pero si se busca una respuesta a este problema dentro del debate criminológico, se quedará desilusionado. La criminología parece no darse plenamente cuenta de la necesidad de un método capaz de hacer posible una comprensión de su propio objeto. El autor propone seguir tres caminosque, desde perspectivas diferentes, afrontan el problema fundamental para cada observación social, es decir, el hecho de que cada observación de la sociedad es parte de lo que se quiere describir. El primer recorrido propuesto es la teoría de los sistemas sociales de Niklas Luhmann. Mediante la distinción entre observación de primer y de segundo orden es posible comprender el problema del objeto sin caer en la paradoja de la autoimplicación. El segundo recorrido propuesto es una obra de arte y precisamente el film de Frit Lang M., El monstruo de Dusseldorf. El arte, en efecto, permite ver lo que no podemos ver dentro de los confines de una observación científica. El arte permite rodear el punto ciego de la propia observación. Por último, el tercer recorrido propuesto al lector es la genealogía del poder descrita por Michel Foucault en el curso al College de France de 1974-1975, dedicado a los Anormales Estos tres recorridos permiten comprender desde perspectivas diferentes que la criminología no podrá producir conocimientos suficientemente adecuados a su objeto si no comprende cómo ella misma está siempre implicada en la construcción del objeto que observa.

  6. Discourse, Complexity, Normativity: Tracing the Elaboration of Foucault's Materialist Concept of Discourse

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    Olssen, Mark

    2014-01-01

    In this article, I want to suggest that it is through the elaboration of the concept of discourse that the differences between Foucault and thinkers like Habermas, Hegel and Marx can best be understood. Foucault progressively develops a conception of discourse as a purely historical category that resists all reference to transcendental principles…

  7. Seismic shear waves as Foucault pendulum

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    Snieder, Roel; Sens-Schönfelder, Christoph; Ruigrok, Elmer; Shiomi, Katsuhiko

    2016-03-01

    Earth's rotation causes splitting of normal modes. Wave fronts and rays are, however, not affected by Earth's rotation, as we show theoretically and with observations made with USArray. We derive that the Coriolis force causes a small transverse component for P waves and a small longitudinal component for S waves. More importantly, Earth's rotation leads to a slow rotation of the transverse polarization of S waves; during the propagation of S waves the particle motion behaves just like a Foucault pendulum. The polarization plane of shear waves counteracts Earth's rotation and rotates clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. The rotation rate is independent of the wave frequency and is purely geometric, like the Berry phase. Using the polarization of ScS and ScS2 waves, we show that the Foucault-like rotation of the S wave polarization can be observed. This can affect the determination of source mechanisms and the interpretation of observed SKS splitting.

  8. School Foucault pendulum

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    Lacsny, Boris; Štubna, Igor; Teleki, Aba

    2014-01-01

    A Foucault pendulum was assembled for a university/high-school physics course. The pendulum is 2.85 m long and the mass of the bob is 4.70 kg. A new technique based on the spark burned points on a sheet of paper was used to register the pendulum’s motion. A Ruhmkorff induction coil was used as a high-voltage source. Plots of the elliptical trajectories (except the first trajectory, which is a straight line) can be created and the angles between the major axes of the ellipses can be determined after assigning the coordinates to the burned points. (paper)

  9. School Foucault pendulum

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    Lacsny, Boris; Štubna, Igor; Teleki, Aba

    2014-11-01

    A Foucault pendulum was assembled for a university/high-school physics course. The pendulum is 2.85 m long and the mass of the bob is 4.70 kg. A new technique based on the spark burned points on a sheet of paper was used to register the pendulum’s motion. A Ruhmkorff induction coil was used as a high-voltage source. Plots of the elliptical trajectories (except the first trajectory, which is a straight line) can be created and the angles between the major axes of the ellipses can be determined after assigning the coordinates to the burned points.

  10. Foucault imaging by using non-dedicated transmission electron microscope

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    Taniguchi, Yoshifumi; Matsumoto, Hiroaki; Harada, Ken

    2012-01-01

    An electron optical system for observing Foucault images was constructed using a conventional transmission electron microscope without any special equipment for Lorentz microscopy. The objective lens was switched off and an electron beam was converged by a condenser optical system to the crossover on the selected area aperture plane. The selected area aperture was used as an objective aperture to select the deflected beam for Foucault mode, and the successive image-forming lenses were controlled for observation of the specimen images. The irradiation area on the specimen was controlled by selecting the appropriate diameter of the condenser aperture.

  11. Foucault imaging by using non-dedicated transmission electron microscope

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    Taniguchi, Yoshifumi; Matsumoto, Hiroaki; Harada, Ken

    2012-08-01

    An electron optical system for observing Foucault images was constructed using a conventional transmission electron microscope without any special equipment for Lorentz microscopy. The objective lens was switched off and an electron beam was converged by a condenser optical system to the crossover on the selected area aperture plane. The selected area aperture was used as an objective aperture to select the deflected beam for Foucault mode, and the successive image-forming lenses were controlled for observation of the specimen images. The irradiation area on the specimen was controlled by selecting the appropriate diameter of the condenser aperture.

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    An electron optical system for observing Foucault images was constructed using a conventional transmission electron microscope without any special equipment for Lorentz microscopy. The objective lens was switched off and an electron beam was converged by a condenser optical system to the crossover on the selected area aperture plane. The selected area aperture was used as an objective aperture to select the deflected beam for Foucault mode, and the successive image-forming lenses were controlled for observation of the specimen images. The irradiation area on the specimen was controlled by selecting the appropriate diameter of the condenser aperture.

  13. What Can I Do? Foucault on Freedom and the Question of Teacher Agency.

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    Pignatelli, Frank

    1993-01-01

    Discusses aspects of Foucault's philosophy that demonstrate the intensity of his concern for freedom. The paper examines the significance of freedom regarding teacher agency and suggests that Foucault's project of freedom can inform current discussion about educational reform and school restructuring, particularly regarding teachers' roles as…

  14. Sobre telas dialógicas e subjetivadas: uma releitura dos conceitos de Bakhtin e Foucault no contexto da produção colaborativa = About dialogical and subjectified screens: a reinterpretation of Bakhtin’s and Foucault’s concepts in the context of audiovisual collaborative production

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    Mata, Jhonatan Alves Pereira

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho tem como objetivo delinear articulações entre práticas discursivas e linguagens midiáticas contemporâneas. Para a empreitada, tomamos como arcabouço teórico os estudos do chamado Círculo de Bakhtin e da Escola Francesa de Análise de Discurso (AD, sobretudo os olhares de Mikhail Bakhtin e Michel Foucault. Dissonâncias e recorrências conceituais serão destacadas, tendo-se por base o dialogismo, a formação discursiva e o enunciado aplicados na análise de dois quadros colaborativos veiculados em telejornais brasileiros: Parceiro do RJ (Rede Globo e Outro Olhar (TV Brasil

  15. O espaço da prostituta na literatura brasileira no século XX

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    Ariágda dos Santos Moreira

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available Resumo: O artigo evidencia diferentes modos de representação da prostituta e de seu espaço de circulação em algumas obras da literatura brasileira, da segunda metade do século XX. As obras mostram personagens femininas, que ganham a vida vendendo seus corpos, em inusitados prostíbulos, integrados ironicamente ao espaço social e moralmente aceitos. A partir dessas representações, o que se pretende discutir aqui, embasado inicialmente nos conceitos de “mundo demoníaco” e “mundo divino” de Northrop Frye, é a relação de estreita interdependência e assimilação que marca espaços aparentemente antagônicos e inconciliáveis. Tal assimilação pode ser também observada por meio da noção de heterotopia, de que trata Michel Foucault, base das análises do crítico literário, o chileno Rodrigo Cánovas, que reforçam as discussões finais neste texto.Palavras-chave: Literatura brasileira; prostituta; século XX; Northrop Frye; mundo demoníaco; mundo divino; Michel Foucault; heterotopia; Rodrigo Cánovas.Resumen: El artículo evidencia diferentes formas de representación de la prostituta y de su espacio de circulación en algunas obras de la literatura brasileña, de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Las obras muestran personajes femeninos que ganan la vida vendiendo sus cuerpos, en inusitados prostíbulos, integrados irónicamente al espacio social y moralmente aceptados. A partir de esas representaciones lo que se pretende discutir aquí, inicialmente a base de los conceptos de “mundo demoníaco” y “mundo divino” de Northrop Frye, es la relación de estrecha interdependencia y asimilación que marca espacios aparentemente antagónicos e inconciliables. Dicha asimilación puede ser también observada por medio de la noción de heterotopía, de que trata Michel Foucault, fundamento de los análisis del crítico literario, el chileno Rodrigo Cánovas, que refuerzan las discusiones finales en ese texto

  16. A tensão de ensinar na (impotência de controle/The tension of teaching under the power (lessness of control

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    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta o estudo de caso de uma criança com “dificuldades de aprendizagem”. Os recursos teóricos que deram suporte a essa reflexão têm origem na psicanálise – nos escritos de Sigmund Freud sobre o inconsciente, o saber e a relação transferencial – e na filosofia, sob a ótica de Michel Foucault e seus apontamentos sobre poder, saber e verdade. This article presents the case study o fone child with “learning disabilities”. The theoretical backdrop that supported this reflection has its origins in psychoanalysis – in the writings of Sigmund Freud about desire, knowing and transference – and in philosophy, in the perspective of Michel Foucault and his entries concerning power, knowing and truth.

  17. The Archaeology of Heroes: Carlyle, Foucault and the Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Narrative Discourse

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    Campbell, Louise

    2017-01-01

    This paper argues in favour of the beneficial currency of Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History" in three ways, each of which finds the basis of its critique in aspects of Foucault's theories of discursive practice, as explored in Foucault's theories of historical discourse; 1) that Carlyle's terminology…

  18. Michel Foucault and the Forces of Civil Society

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    Villadsen, Kaspar

    2016-01-01

    , presenting civil society as a ‘reality that does not exist’ but still has real effects. This new reality holds contradictory potentials. When articulated by political eschatology, civil society supports prophecies of the end of politics in a final accord where contradictions dissolve and the community...... absorbs the state. Neoliberal notions of civil society promise, on Foucault’s account, a more open-ended milieu of subject formation....

  19. Magritte Meets Kripkenstein

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    1997-01-01

    Roč. 45, 3-4 (1997), s. 240-258 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z9009908 Keywords : René Magritte * Michel Foucault * Saul Kripke Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  20. [Correlation and interconversion between erythrocyte cholinesterase values obtained by the Michel and the EQM techniques].

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    Carmona-Fonseca, Jaime

    2006-12-01

    Several techniques are available to measure red cell cholinesterase; therefore, evaluations with several methods provide a measure of concordance. An equation was formulated to transform native data of reference values to reference units of cholinesterase activity as measured by Michel and EQM tests. The experimental design was descriptive, transversal and prospective. The group sampled was a representative adult working population, aged 18-75, without previous exposure to cholinesterase inhibitors pesticides. The individuals were affiliated to the Social Security System and resided in Valle de Aburrá and Cercano Oriente Antioqueño (Antioquia Province, northwestern Colombia). Of 827 individuals, quantitative erythrocytes (Michel y EQM) tests exhibited "r" coefficients between 0.67 and R2 coefficient of 44%.,This indicated that one test explained the results in other test in 44% of the cases. The corelation was higher in Aburrá than in Oriente. The linear model for the 827 individuals was as follows: EQM U/g oxy-hemoglobin = 9.575 U/ g oxy-hemoglobin + 29.791 (Michel delta pH/hour). Michel delta pH/hr = 0.3312 delta pH/hour + 0.0149 (EQM U/g oxy-hemoglobin), where EQM was expressed in U/g oxy-hemoglobin and Michel pH change/hr. Inter-sections (coefficient a) and inclines (coefficient b) were significant in this model. In the adjusted equations, after exclusion of 12 extreme data (1.5% of 827), the r coefficient increased from 0.67 to 0.72 The adjusted equations were as follows: EQM U/g oxy-hemoglobin = 8.1884 U/g oxy-hemoglobin + 31.3920 (Michel delta pH/hour); Michel delta pH/hr = 0.2925 delta pH/hr + 0.0161 (EQM U/g oxy-hemoglobin). This system of linear equations permitted the transformation of Michel (delta PH/ hr) units to EQM (U/g oxy-hemoglobin) units and vice versa. This will facilitate data comparisons by clinicians and epidemiologists who are using these methods of cholinesterase measurement.

  1. Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education--Perspective on the Normalization of Social Risks

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    Kopecký, Martin

    2011-01-01

    The article deals with the relevance of the work of Foucault to critical analysis of the political concept of lifelong learning that currently dominates. This concept relates to the field of adult education and learning. The article makes reference to the relatively late incorporation of Foucault's work within andragogy. It shows the…

  2. Beneath rationalization: Elias, Foucault, and the body

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    Paulle, B.; Emirbayer, M.

    2016-01-01

    Elias and Foucault ended up making the same core discovery about the same fundamental social process, which we term the ‘social constraints towards self-discipline’ process. We show how three distinct biographical and intellectual factors were important in guiding them toward this discovery: (1)

  3. Precessional Periods of Long and Short Foucault Pendulums

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    Soga, Michitoshi

    1978-01-01

    Derives the precessional period of a Foucault pendulum without using small oscillation amplitudes. Shows that if the path of the pendulum passes through the origin, the periods for differing amplitudes are essentially the same. (GA)

  4. A Modernidade em Foucault: uma breve Exposição

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    Guilherme Castelo Branco

    2010-10-01

    Full Text Available o artigo trata da compreensáo da Modernidade no pensamento de Foucault abordando a dimensáo historica da atualidade na esfera de problematizaçáo socio-politica dos nossos dias. Seu nucleo de argumentacáo concentra-se nas condições de exame da questáo etica atraves da leitura que Foucault faz de Kant do principio da maioridade , do telos da afiio e da autonomia individual. Com isto o artigo propõe um eixo de analise da ideia foucaultiana de uma estetica da existencia a partir da relaçao entre subjetividade e poder.

  5. Michel Houellebecq uusi inimeksitetsi territooriume kaardistamas / Triinu Tamm

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    2010-01-01

    Prantsuse kirjaniku Michel Houellebecq uuest romaanist "Kaart ja territoorium" ("La carte et le territoire", "Flammarion"), mille ilmumine on tekitanud palju poleemikat ja püsib mitme maineka kirjandusauhinna pretendentide seas, muuhulgas juba teist vooru Goncourt'i auhinda püüdvate romaanide nimekirjas

  6. State Phobia and Civil Society

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    Dean, Mitchell; Villadsen, Kaspar

    State Phobia draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the large...... interpretative literature on Foucault, which claims that he displaces the state for a de-centered analytics of power. Understanding Foucault means understanding all his interlocutors—whether Marxists, Maoists, neoliberals, or social democrats. It requires turning to Foucault's colleagues, including Deleuze...... with the exercise of political sovereignty, yet his work cannot make visible the concept of the state. Moving beyond Foucault, the authors outline new ways of conceiving the state's role in establishing social order and in mediating between an inequality-producing capitalist economy and the juridical equality...

  7. Resisting the seduction of "ethics creep": using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review.

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    Guta, Adrian; Nixon, Stephanie A; Wilson, Michael G

    2013-12-01

    In this paper we examine "ethics creep", a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of research ethics boards and institutional review boards (REB/IRBs) and the expanding reach of ethics review. We start with an overview of the recent surge of academic interest in ethics creep and similar arguments about the prohibitive effect of ethics review. We then introduce elements of Michel Foucault's theoretical framework which are used to inform our analysis of empirical data drawn from a multi-phase study exploring the accessibility of community-engaged research within existing ethics review structures in Canada. First, we present how ethics creep emerged both explicitly and implicitly in our data. We then present data that demonstrate how REB/IRBs are experiencing their own form of regulation. Finally, we present data that situate ethics review alongside other trends affecting the academy. Our results show that ethics review is growing in some ways while simultaneously being constrained in others. Drawing on Foucauldian theory we reframe ethics creep as a repressive hypothesis which belies the complexity of the phenomenon it purports to explain. Our discussion complicates ethics creep by proposing an understanding of REB/IRBs that locates them at the intersection of various neoliberal discourses about the role of science, ethics, and knowledge production. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  8. Discourse, the political and the ontological dimension

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    Hansen, Allan Dreyer; Sonnichsen, André

    2014-01-01

    In this interview, Ernesto Laclau discusses his theoretico-political endeavour from the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy; questions of radical democratic subjectivity; the social order, sedimentation and change; and finally his relationship to the work of Michel Foucault....

  9. Dalla biopolitica all’etopolitica: Foucault e noi

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    Davide Tarizzo

    2013-02-01

    Full Text Available La categoria di "società della normalizzazione", proposta da Foucault, non è più in grado di descrivere il funzionamento delle società contemporanee. La logica e la matematica della normalizzazione sono state rimpiazzate dalla logica e dalla matematica dell'ottimizzazione. Questo passaggio storico segna la nascita dell'etopolitica.

  10. "Safeguarding" Sports Coaching: Foucault, Genealogy and Critique

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    Garratt, Dean; Piper, Heather; Taylor, Bill

    2013-01-01

    This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault's work, it examines the "politics of touch" in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching. While the analysis has some resonance with the context of coaching as a whole, for illustrative…

  11. Clashes of discourses: Humanists and Calvinists in seventeenth-century academic Leiden

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    Kromhout, D.

    2016-01-01

    Using Michel Foucault's concept of discursive change and Stephen Greenblatt's ideas about social poetics and self-fashioning, 'Clashes of Discourses: Calvinists and Humanists in Seventeenth-Century Academic Leiden' explains developments in the literary works of leading Leiden humanists against the

  12. Uma atualidade in extremis: Foucault entre Marx e o neoliberalismo

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    Nilton Ken Ota

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available A participação de Foucault no GIP marcou o momento de constituição de sua teoria estratégica das lutas no contexto de uma interlocução com militantes marxistas. O enfraquecimento dessa interlocução foi acompanhado pelo início das pesquisas genealógicas e por uma reformulação conceitual que dispersou o problema da racionalidade estratégica em benefício da construção de uma discursividade propriamente teórica. As controvérsias atuais ao redor dos sentidos do legado foucaultiano, cujo movimento pendular tem variado entre Marx e o neoliberalismo, revelam os efeitos de uma trajetória intelectual que se dividiu entre a reflexão crítica do combate concreto e a elaboração conceitual de um experimentalismo radical. Este artigo pretende reconstruir os principais pontos e conformações teóricas dessa trajetória. The participation of Foucault in GIP marked the moment of creation of strategic theory about the struggles in the context of a dialogue with Marxist militants. The weakening of that dialogue was accompanied by the start of genealogical research and, consequently, a conceptual reformulation which, among other changes, dispersed the problem of strategic rationality for the construction of a properly theoretical discursiveness. The current controversy surrounding the way the Foucault's legacy, whose pendulum has varied between Marx and neo-liberalism, reveal the effects of an intellectual journey that was divided between the critical reflection of the actual combat and the conceptual formulation of a radical experimentalism. The article An Actuality in extremis: Foucault Between Marx and Neoliberalism aims to reconstruct the main points and theoretical conformations that trajectory.Keywords: Marxism, strategy, neoliberalism, engagement, intellectuals

  13. Articulations between self-care and ecosophy: the teachers’ training issue

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    Full Text Available In this article, we covered Michel Foucault and Félix Guattari papers in order to try to articulate the “self-care” (Foucault and "Ecosophy" (Guattari philosophical concepts and then, to discuss how these concepts can build up a thought on the teachers’ training, as well as, suggesting a training itself which is called “Ecosophic". Between 1981 and 1982, Foucault spoke about the urgency of rebuilding a “self” ethic as a possible confrontation against dissymmetric power relationships. Later, in 1989, Guattari, also referenced this urgency against a multifaceted crisis that deteriorated in the physical environment, social relations and subjectivities of the entire planet. Foucault and Guattari have developed these criticisms for about three decades and we believe their writings may contribute to place the current spotlight.

  14. Foucault pendulum with eddy-current damping of the elliptical motion

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    Mastner, G.; Vokurka, V.; Maschek, M.; Vogt, E.; Kaufmann, H. P.

    1984-10-01

    A newly designed Foucault pendulum is described in which the mechanical Charron ring, used throughout in previous designs for damping of the elliptical motion of the pendulum, is replaced by an electromagnetic eddy-current brake, consisting of a permanent magnet attached to the bottom of the bob and a metallic ring. This damping device is very efficient, as it is self-aligning, symmetrical in the damping effect, and never wears out. The permanent magnet is also used, together with a coil assembly and an electronic circuitry, for the dipole-torque drive of the pendulum as well as for accurate stabilization of the amplitude of the swing. A latched time display, controlled by Hall probes activated by the magnet, is used to visualize the Foucault rotation. The pendulum system and its associated electronic circuitry are described in detail. The optimizing of the drive mode is discussed. Measurements of deviations from theoretical value of the Foucault rotation velocity made automatically in a continuous run show a reproducible accuracy of ±1% or better in individual 360° rotations during the summer months. The quality factor of the pendulum as mechanical resonator was measured as a function of the amplitude in the presence of the eddy-current damping ring.

  15. 'Surveillance and cultural Panopticism': situating Foucault in African ...

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    This work utilizes Foucault's theory of panopticism to reflect on the challenges of social control and harmony in contemporary African society. It establishes the link between panopticism and indigenous African cultures from the fact that indigenous societies deployed mechanisms of instituting social control and harmony ...

  16. Subjetividade e verdade no último Foucault Subjectivity and truth in the late Foucault

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    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available A constituição do sujeito na investigação do último Foucault geralmente é conhecida pela perspectiva de sua estética da existência. Tal abordagem deve-se sobremaneira à leitura dos dois últimos volumes de Histoire de la sexualité (1984. No entanto, o presente artigo aponta que nos cursos no Collège de France intitulados Subjectivité et verité (1981 e L'herméneutique du sujet (1982 outra leitura pode ser elaborada. A relação entre subjetividade e verdade evidencia-se como central em seu pensamento e seus desdobramentos são apresentados a partir das diferenças estabelecidas entre filosofia e espiritualidade, das articulações entre cuidado de si e conhecimento de si, conhecimentos úteis e inúteis, cuidado de si e conversão a si, ascese e verdade.The constitution of the subject in the investigation of the late Foucault is generally dealt with through the perspective of his aesthetics of existence. Such approach is mainly due to the reading of the two last volumes of The History of Sexuality (1984. However, the present article points out that in his Collège de France courses entitled Subjectivity and Truth (1981 and The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1982, a different reading can be elaborated. The relation between subjectivity and truth is evidently central in his thinking and its developments are presented from the differences established between philosophy and spirituality, from the articulations between care of the self and knowledge of the self, useful knowledge and useless knowledge, care of the self and conversion to the self, asceticism and truth.

  17. This is Who We Are: The Politics of Identity in Twentieth Century Iran

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    encouraged. The government also encourages Revolutionary subjects in fields as widely differing as art, music, and cinema .140 Through its numerous...26. The principle was not original to Khosravi; in his notes, he cites French philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault. 38 concept to

  18. Editorial | Michell | Southern African Journal of Critical Care

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    Southern African Journal of Critical Care. Journal Home · ABOUT THIS JOURNAL · Advanced Search · Current Issue · Archives · Journal Home > Vol 32, No 2 (2016) >. Log in or Register to get access to full text downloads. Username, Password, Remember me, or Register. Editorial. Lance Michell. Abstract. Care or burn in ...

  19. The Politics of the Gaze Foucault, Lacan and Zizek

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    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available Joan Copjec accuses orthodox film theory of misrepresenting the Lacanian gaze by assimilating it to Foucauldian panopticon (Copjec 1994: 18-19. Although Copjec is correct that orthodox film theory misrepresents the Lacanian gaze, she, in turn, misrepresents Foucault by choosing to focus exclusively upon those as-pects of his work on the panopticon that have been taken up by orthodox film the-ory (Copjec 1994: 4. In so doing, I argue, Copjec misses key parallels between the Lacanian and Foucauldian concepts of the gaze. More than a narrow academic dispute about how to read Foucault and Lacan, this debate has wider political sig-nificance. In particular, using Slavoj Zizek's work, I show that a correct account of the panoptic gaze leads us to rethink the question of how to oppose modern techniques of surveillance.

  20. Simulacra, Symbolic Exchange and Technology in Michel Tournier's La Goutte d'Or

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    1993-06-01

    Full Text Available In La Goutte d'Or , Michel Tournier offers a critique of Western culture by constructing a novel that reflects both Jean Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and the political economy of the sign and Martin Heidegger's meditations on technology. Tournier's novel explores the relationship between Heidegger's explanation of technology as an act of Enframing ( Ge-stell and Baudrillard's description of an economy based upon exchange-sign value. Thus, through La Goutte d 'Or , Michel Tournier depicts the violent confrontation between a symbolic exchange economy based on poietic acts and late capitalist economies of autonomized signs.

  1. The betwixt and between family class

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    Knudsen, Hanne

    2009-01-01

    Artiklen analyserer familieklassen gennem tre teoretiske perspektiver. Først som empowerment teknologi ved hjælp af Michel Foucaults begreb om selvteknologi og governmentality. Dertil trækkes på det systemteoretiske begreb om sociale styringsteknologier, og endelig trækkes begrebet om "boundary o...

  2. Biopolitics

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    Minca, C.

    2017-01-01

    The notion of biopolitics is at the core of many contemporary scholarly discussions involving both life and politics. Biopolitics originates from positivistic ideas in life and political sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Michel Foucault's critical work on biopolitics in the 1970s,

  3. Advocating a Post-Structuralist Politics for Educational Leadership

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    Niesche, Richard; Gowlett, Christina

    2015-01-01

    Post-structuralist discourses have usually been associated with forms of critique and deconstruction of social, cultural and philosophical phenomena. However, this article attempts to provide a generative approach to understanding educational leadership through Michel Foucault's notions of power and subjectification, and Judith Butler's notions of…

  4. From "Animal Machines" to "Happy Meat"? Foucault's Ideas of Disciplinary and Pastoral Power Applied to 'Animal-Centred' Welfare Discourse.

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    Cole, Matthew

    2011-01-11

    Michel Foucault's work traces shifting techniques in the governance of humans, from the production of 'docile bodies' subjected to the knowledge formations of the human sciences (disciplinary power), to the facilitation of self-governing agents directed towards specified forms of self-knowledge by quasi-therapeutic authorities (pastoral power). While mindful of the important differences between the governance of human subjects and the oppression of nonhuman animals, exemplified in nonhuman animals' legal status as property, this paper explores parallel shifts from disciplinary to pastoral regimes of human-'farmed' animal relations. Recent innovations in 'animal-centred' welfare science represent a trend away from the 'disciplinary' techniques of confinement and torture associated with 'factory farms' and towards quasi-therapeutic ways of claiming to know 'farmed' animals, in which the animals themselves are co-opted into the processes by which knowledge about them is generated. The new pastoral turn in 'animal-centred' welfare finds popular expression in 'happy meat' discourses that invite 'consumers' to adopt a position of vicarious carer for the 'farmed' animals who they eat. The paper concludes that while 'animal-centred' welfare reform and 'happy meat' discourses promise a possibility of a somewhat less degraded life for some 'farmed' animals, they do so by perpetuating exploitation and oppression and entrenching speciesist privilege by making it less vulnerable to critical scrutiny.

  5. Foucault and the Imperatives of Education: Critique and Self-Creation in a Non-Foundational World

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    Olssen, Mark

    2006-01-01

    This article outlines Foucault's conception of critique in relation to his writings on Kant. In that Kant saw Enlightenment as a process of release from the status of immaturity in that we accept someone else's authority to lead us in areas where the use of reason is called for, it is claimed in this article that Foucault's notion of critique…

  6. The Politics of Humanitarian Technology

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    Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov

    Med udgangspunkt i teori og koncepter fra Michel Foucaults værker,såvel som indsigter fra Science and Technology Studies (STS), udforsker bogen tre forskellige eksempler på humanitære aktørers brug af ny teknologi: vacciner, genmodificerede majs og biometrisk registreringsteknologi....

  7. J.T. van der Kemp and his Critique of the Settler Farmers on the ...

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    Theoretically, I draw on some insights from works of Michel Foucault, especially with regard to eighteenth and early nineteenth century 'representational thought', where 'idea' and 'object' are directly related. Keywords: J.T. van der Kemp, settler farmers, frontier, patriot, rebellion, slavery, baptism, cruelty, Black Circuit Court ...

  8. Schooling Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurship, Governmentality and Education Policy in Sweden at the Turn of the Millennium

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    Dahlstedt, Magnus; Hertzberg, Fredrik

    2012-01-01

    Departing from Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality, the focus of this article is the introduction of entrepreneurial education in Swedish education policy at the turn of the millennium. We analyze the various meanings attached to the concepts of "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurship" in education policy documents, as…

  9. School Architecture, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Shifts in the Discursive Space of the "School" as Forms of Governmentality.

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    Hennon, Lisa

    The historical shifts in United States discourses of school architecture as they relate to reforms and inventions of new pedagogical techniques are examined using Michel Foucault's conceptualization of "governmentality" and related scholarship. The purpose is to question assumptions underlying two claims currently being made about school…

  10. The birth of the clinic

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    2012-01-01

    In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucault's penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again.

  11. Foucault's pendulum, a classical analog for the electron spin state

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    Linck, Rebecca A.

    Spin has long been regarded as a fundamentally quantum phenomena that is incapable of being described classically. To bridge the gap and show that aspects of spin's quantum nature can be described classically, this work uses a classical Lagrangian based on the coupled oscillations of Foucault's pendulum as an analog for the electron spin state in an external magnetic field. With this analog it is possible to demonstrate that Foucault's pendulum not only serves as a basis for explaining geometric phase, but is also a basis for reproducing a broad range of behavior from Zeeman-like frequency splitting to precession of the spin state. By demonstrating that unmeasured electron spin states can be fully described in classical terms, this research opens the door to using the tools of classical physics to examine an inherently quantum phenomenon.

  12. Interpreting Foucault: an evaluation of a Foucauldian critique of ...

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    The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault's work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in education, which is understood as a societal institution, and hence, as a modern regime of ...

  13. L’église Saint-Michel de Lille : chronologie d’un chantier

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    Catherine Guillot

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available Après le démantèlement des fortifications de Lille en 1858, un nouveau quartier est aménagé au sud de la ville, dont un des équipements importants est l’église Saint-Michel, construite entre 1868 et 1874 par l’architecte Alfred Coisel. Très bien documenté, son chantier dévoile un mobilier et un décor exemplaire par son homogénéité et par la place accordée à la peinture murale. Cette étude met en évidence, outre le rôle du peintre Alphonse Colas, des artistes méconnus comme Albéric Duyver et Marie Carin. L’iconographie, qui révèle un des plus importants cycles consacrés à l’archange saint Michel, est également extrêmement caractéristique de son temps.After the demolition of the fortifications at Lille, in 1858, a new quarter developed to the south of the city. One of the important features of this new neighbourhood was the Saint-Michel church, built between 1868 and 1874 to the designs of the architect Alfred Coisel. The building of this church is exceptionally well documented and reveals church furnishings and decoration of an exemplary nature in terms of homogeneity and the special place given over to mural paintings. This study underlines the role of the painter Alphonse Colas, but also the contribution of other, less well known artists such as Albéric Duyver and Marie Carin. The iconographical theme is one of the most important cycles of its time devoted to the archangel Saint Michel, and is highly characteristic of the period.

  14. Histories and Freedom of the Present

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    Vucina, Naja; Drejer, Claus Munch; Triantafillou, Peter

    2011-01-01

    This paper compares the ways in which Michel Foucault and Quentin Skinner’s historical analyses seek to unsettle the limits on present forms of freedom. We do so by comparing their ways of analyzing discourse, rationality and agency. The two authors differ significantly in the ways they deal...

  15. A Doubled Heterotopia: Shifting Spatial and Visual Symbolism in the Jewish Museum Berlin's Development

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    Saindon, Brent Allen

    2012-01-01

    This essay considers the rhetoric of space in a rapidly transforming culture. Using Michel Foucault's concept of "heterotopias" to understand the rhetorical power of a building's disposition, it is argued that the Jewish Museum Berlin contains two heterotopias, one within the other. The first is Daniel Libeskind's original building…

  16. Heterotopiese ruimtes van krisis en die natuur se genesende ...

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    Crises heterotopias and nature's healing influence in Chinchilla (Nanette van Rooyen). In this article, Michel Foucault's term crises heterotopia is used to understand and describe the main character's unique experience of particular places in Chinchilla. The article investigates the manner in which nature becomes part of the ...

  17. From Being Non-Judgemental to Deconstructing Normalising Judgement

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    Winslade, John M.

    2013-01-01

    Beginning with Carl Rogers' exhortation for counsellors to be non-judgemental of their clients, this article explores the rationale for withholding judgement in therapy, including diagnostic judgement. It traces Rogers' incipient sociopolitical analysis as a foundation for this ethic and argues that Michel Foucault provides a stronger…

  18. Critical Inquiry for the Social Good: Methodological Work as a Means for Truth-Telling in Education

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    Kuntz, Aaron M.; Pickup, Austin

    2016-01-01

    This article questions the ubiquity of the term "critical" in methodological scholarship, calling for a renewed association of the term with projects concerned with social justice, truth-telling, and overt articulations of the social good. Drawing on Michel Foucault's work with parrhesia (or truth-telling) and Aristotle's articulation of…

  19. [Considering all facets of man].

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    Quentin, Bertrand

    2012-01-01

    Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, through their works, questioned the notion of mental illness as well as traditional psychiatry. However, Friedrich Hegel, in reference to Philippe Pinel and to "human treatment" is opposed to any unilateral model which would tend to exclude the institution, insanity and therefore the patient.

  20. "Socialized Music": Historical Formations of Community Music through Social Rationales

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    Yerichuk, Deanna

    2014-01-01

    This article traces the formation of community music through professional and scholarly articles over the last century in North America, and argues that community music has been discursively formed through social rationales, although the specific rationales have shifted. The author employs an archaeological framework inspired by Michel Foucault to…

  1. Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Talk: Henry Cavendish, John Michell, Weighing the Stars

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    McCormmach, Russell

    2010-03-01

    This talk is about an interaction between two 18th-century natural philosophers (physical scientists), Henry Cavendish and John Michell, and its most important outcome, the experiment of weighing the world (their name for it) using a torsion balance (our name for it). Michell was the most inventive of the 18th century English natural philosophers, and Cavendish was the first of his countrymen to possess abilities at all comparable with Newton's. By their interests and skills, they were drawn to one another. Both were universal natural philosophers, equally adept at building scientific instruments, performing experiments, constructing theory, and using mathematics; both had a penchant for exacting, quantitative work. Both also had fitful habits of publication, which did not begin to reveal the range of their work, to the mystification of later scientists and historians. Late in life, Cavendish and Michell turned their attention to the force that Newton had examined most completely, a singular triumph of his natural philosophy, the force of universal gravitation. Over the course of the 18th century, abundant evidence of attraction had been gathered from the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets, phenomena which span the intermediate range of masses, sizes, and distances. But in three domains of experience, involving the extreme upper and lower limits of masses and dimensions, the universality of gravitation remained an article of faith. These were the gravity of the ``fixed'' stars, the mutual attraction of terrestrial bodies, and the gravitation of light and other special substances. Michell took on himself the task of deducing observable consequences from each of these prospective instances of universal gravitation. Cavendish encouraged Michell, and he followed up the resulting observational and experimental questions. The experiment of weighing the world was the last experiment Mitchell planned and the last experiment Cavendish published. The capstone of

  2. Moving Elite Athletes Forward: Examining the Status of Secondary School Elite Athlete Programmes and Available Post-School Options

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    Brown, Seth

    2015-01-01

    Purpose: The purpose of this study focused specifically on examining the status of and the promotion of two elite athlete programmes (EAPs), the students/elite athlete selection process and available post-school options. The research was guided by Michel Foucault's work in understanding the relationship between power and knowledge. Participants,…

  3. A Foucaultian Approach to Academic Anxiety

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    Levine, Gavrielle

    2008-01-01

    Academic anxiety interferes with achievement and performance, as well as social and psychological development among children and adults. Although the writings of Michel Foucault do not address anxiety directly, his themes of knowledge and power have been applied to education and describe relationships that are likely to create anxiety among some…

  4. Differentially Positioned Language Games: Ethnomathematics from a Philosophical Perspective

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    Knijnik, Gelsa

    2012-01-01

    This paper discusses a new philosophical perspective for ethnomathematics which articulates Ludwig Wittgenstein's and Michel Foucault's theoretical notions. It is conceived as a theoretical toolbox which allows the analysis of, on the one hand, the mathematical language games of different forms of life and their family resemblances and, on the…

  5. Getting Schooled on Resistance: Dominant and Counter Narratives of Writing and the Circulation of Power in Urban School Reform

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    Urbanski, Cynthia Diane

    2012-01-01

    Michel Foucault argues that power is everywhere, all of the time. He describes it as concrete, "capillary," acting in, on and through the actual body. All "knowledge" and "truth" is an effect of that power which is why power and knowledge are integrally related. Power/knowledge produces social positioning. In this…

  6. Urban Competition and Urban Crisis

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    Greve, Anni

    The essay gives a brief summery of Michel Foucault's 1978-1979 lectures which offers an important point of reference for a deeper understanding of the shift from liberal to neo-liberal ideas. Here he points out that neo-liberalism is an art of governemt that seeks to enforce competition. But his ...

  7. Optical Foucault Pendulum: photons and the Coriolis effect

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    Rogers, Charles; Selvaggi, Richard

    2012-10-01

    Consider the motion of photons within a rotating photon clock. Will light behave as a particle as it reflects back and forth between two parallel mirrors rotating in a manner similar to the motion of a Foucault pendulum? An experiment to measure the trajectory of light in a rotating cavity is presented. Implementation details for this experiment and initial data collected are also reported.

  8. Transformation of a Foucault shadowgram into the geometrical model of a shear interferogram by means of isophotometry

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    Zhevlakov, A. P.; Zatsepina, M. E.; Kirillovskii, V. K.

    2014-06-01

    The principles of transformation of a Foucault shadowgram into a quantitative map of wave-front deformation based on creation of a system of isophotes are unveiled. The presented studies and their results prove that there is a high degree of correspondence between a Foucault shadowgram and the geometrical model of a shear interferogram with respect to displaying wave-front deformations.

  9. Presidents' words - Michel Goossens

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    2015-01-01

    Michel Goossens Already at the beginning of 1955, just a few months after the creation of CERN, the members of the Organization's staff who then numbered less than 200, realized that they had to organize themselves into a corporate body to ensure a formal representation with Management and Member States. The Staff Association was born. As the 27th President of the Staff Association since its inception 60 years ago my task is highly interesting and rewarding, with plenty of responsibility, yet not always simple. Indeed, chosen by one’s peers as primus inter pares, the president is like the conductor of an orchestra, who must first convince his musicians to study the score together, before playing it in harmony. Of course, in my position I can rely on the solid foundations laid by my 26 predecessors, as well as the enthusiasm, loyalty, continuous efforts and perseverance of a core of dedicated collaborators, the elected delegates to the Staff Council. The strength of the Staff Associati...

  10. The prisoner as model organism: malaria research at Stateville Penitentiary

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    Comfort, Nathaniel

    2009-01-01

    In a military-sponsored research project begun during the Second World War, inmates of the Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois were infected with malaria and treated with experimental drugs that sometimes had vicious side effects. They were made into reservoirs for the disease and they provided a food supply for the mosquito cultures. They acted as secretaries and technicians, recording data on one another, administering malarious mosquito bites and experimental drugs to one another, and helping decide who was admitted to the project and who became eligible for early parole as a result of his participation. Thus, the prisoners were not simply research subjects; they were deeply constitutive of the research project. Because a prisoner’s time on the project was counted as part of his sentence, and because serving on the project could shorten one’s sentence, the project must be seen as simultaneously serving the functions of research and punishment. Michel Foucault wrote about such ‘mixed mechanisms’ in his Discipline and punish. His shining example of such a ‘transparent’ and subtle style of punishment was the panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s architectural invention of prison cellblocks arrayed around a central guard tower. Stateville prison was designed on Bentham’s model; Foucault featured it in his own discussion. This paper, then, explores the power relations in this highly idiosyncratic experimental system, in which the various roles of model organism, reagent, and technician are all occupied by sentient beings who move among them fluidly. This, I argue, created an environment in the Stateville hospital wing more panoptic than that in the cellblocks. Research and punishment were completely interpenetrating, and mutually reinforcing. PMID:19720327

  11. Voces resistentes: del poder foucaultiano al cepillo benjaminiano

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    Manchado, Mauricio

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available [es] El artículo propone entrecruzar, a partir de sus principales conceptos y proposiciones teóricas, a dos de los más importantes intelectuales del siglo XX: Walter Benjamin y Michel Foucault.Tanto Benjamin como Foucault propusieron pensar el orden social y, a partir de ello, elaboraron una maquinaria crítica que posibilitó definir cómo las prácticas y discursos que sofocan los cambios sociales son, al mismo tiempo, el propio dominio desde el cuál emprender una acción transformadora.En ese sentido, nuestro objetivo es, a pesar de las divergencias y distancias que reconocemos entre ambos autores, indagar aquellos discursos que nos permitan examinar sus convergencias respecto de cómo piensan la dinámica del cambio social. Para ello, reflexionamos acerca de las nociones de poder, derecho, violencia, verdad, discurso, sujeto, revolución e intelectual -entre otras- para observar de qué manera Benjamin y Foucault posibilitan pensar múltiples dimensiones de acción política transformadora en el sistema capitalista actual. [en] This article seeks to compare the main concepts and theoretical propositions of two of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century: Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault.Both, Benjamin and Foucault, proposed to think the social order and, from there, they elaborated a critical machinery that made possible to define how the practices and discourses that suffocate social changes are, at the same time, the starting point for revolutionary action.In this regards, our aim is, in spite of the differences and distances that we recognize between both authors, to investigate those discourses that allow us to examine their convergences concerning how they think the dynamics of social change.With this purpose, we reflect about the notions of power, right, violence, truth, discourse, subject, revolution, intellectual, among others, to observe in which way Benjamin and Foucault make possible to think multiple dimensions

  12. Le « rôle homosexuel » trente ans plus tard : retour sur le travail de Mary McIntosh

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    Weeks, Jeffrey

    2011-01-01

    On constate à l’heure actuelle une tendance à effacer les origines théoriques des approches constructionnistes de la sexualité, qui s’accompagne d’une inclination à privilégier la contribution de Michel Foucault et ses disciples. Sans minimiser d’aucune façon l’importance des travaux de Foucault, il est nécessaire de rappeler les premières tentatives de théorisation des formes culturelles et sociales de la sexualité en général et de l’homosexualité en particulier. Dans ce contexte, l’article ...

  13. Lecturas de la crítica foucaultiana a la subjetivación

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    Terol Rojo, Gabriel

    2013-01-01

    Este artículo pretende recuperar la lectura de los textos de Michel Foucault para aunar un discurso en torno al saber, el poder y la moral y subrayar su historia crítica de subjetividad. Por ello, proponemos un repaso por el estilo filosófico de Foucault, un racimo de lecturas de textos foucaultianos y un uso contrastado de su trilogía arqueológica parar destacar una característica teoría propia de la subjetividad moderna. Nuestra intención gira en torno a descubrir un proyecto general en tod...

  14. Foucault dissipation in a rolling cylinder: a webcam quantitative study

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    Bonanno, A; Bozzo, G; Camarca, M; Sapia, P

    2011-01-01

    In this paper we present an experimental strategy to measure the micro power dissipation due to Foucault 'eddy' currents in a copper cylinder rolling on two parallel conductive rails in the presence of a magnetic field. Foucault power dissipation is obtained from kinematical measurements carried out by using a common PC webcam and video analysis done by means of software tools freely available within Windows operating system (Paint and Movie Maker). The proposed method allows us to experimentally discern the contribution to dissipation due to the velocity-independent rolling friction from that owed to the viscous-like friction emerging from complex electrodynamic interactions among eddy currents and the external magnetic field. In this way a microdissipation of some tens of μW is measured. The easily reproducible experimental setup, the simple implementation of data analysis and the discussion on various experimental approaches and strategies make the proposed activity highly significant for university undergraduates, since involved crucial skills can be efficiently strengthened.

  15. Foucault dissipation in a rolling cylinder: a webcam quantitative study

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    Bonanno, A; Bozzo, G; Camarca, M; Sapia, P, E-mail: sapia@fis.unical.it [Physics Department, University of Calabria, I-87036 Rende, CS (Italy)

    2011-03-15

    In this paper we present an experimental strategy to measure the micro power dissipation due to Foucault 'eddy' currents in a copper cylinder rolling on two parallel conductive rails in the presence of a magnetic field. Foucault power dissipation is obtained from kinematical measurements carried out by using a common PC webcam and video analysis done by means of software tools freely available within Windows operating system (Paint and Movie Maker). The proposed method allows us to experimentally discern the contribution to dissipation due to the velocity-independent rolling friction from that owed to the viscous-like friction emerging from complex electrodynamic interactions among eddy currents and the external magnetic field. In this way a microdissipation of some tens of {mu}W is measured. The easily reproducible experimental setup, the simple implementation of data analysis and the discussion on various experimental approaches and strategies make the proposed activity highly significant for university undergraduates, since involved crucial skills can be efficiently strengthened.

  16. Technologies and Truth Games: Research as a Dynamic Method

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    Hassett, Dawnene D.

    2010-01-01

    This article offers a way of thinking about literacy instruction that critiques current reasoning, but also provides a space to dynamically think outside of prevalent practices. It presents a framework for both planning and studying literacy pedagogy that combines a practical everyday model of the reading process with Michel Foucault's (1988c)…

  17. Knowledge Organization: A Sociohistorical Analysis and Critique

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    Andersen, Jack; Skouvig, Laura

    2006-01-01

    In this article, the authors examine the discipline of knowledge organization by harnessing the theories of Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas. The argument is that knowledge organization is not just a question of improved technology; as an academic discipline, it has to define and legitimize its relevance for society. The authors use the…

  18. Fluxus-øer

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    van der Meijden, Peter Alexander

    2008-01-01

    "Fluxus-øer" er en introduktion til Fluxus med udgangspunkt i den tyske galleri-ejer René Blocks samling, som udstillingen "Food for Thought" i Sukkerfabrikken i Stege (Møn) præsenterede et udvalg af. Artiklen beskriver Fluxus som et heterotopi som beskrevet af Michel Foucault i "Of Other Spaces"...

  19. Journal for the Study of Religion: Submissions

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    Foucault, Michel 1977. Discipline and Punish. Trans. by A. Sheridan. New York: Pantheon. Chapter in an edited book. Smart, N. 1985. “The history of religions and its conversation partners.” In The History of Religions, Retrospect and Prospect, pp. 73-85. Edited by J. M. Kitagawa. New York: Macmillan. Encyclopaedia article

  20. J.T. van der Kemp and Eighteenth century coded subjectivity | Smit ...

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    It then proceeds to an analysis of the impact of J.T. van der Kemp, 1799-1804. Theoretically I draw on the distinction between morality and ethics by Michel Foucault as well as his theorising of eighteenth century representational thought. Keywords: J.T. van der Kemp, morality, ethics, models for missionary engagement, ...

  1. CARRASPANA!... CARRASPANA!...

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    Rodrigo Marques

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Utilizando os conceitos elaborados por Michel Foucault em A Ordem do Discurso (1970, este trabalho discute as técnicas narrativas que funcionam como interdi- ções discursivas no romance A Moreninha (1844, de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. Palavras-chave: Interdições Discursivas — A Moreninha — Romantismo Brasileiro

  2. Trapped in Our Own Discursive Formations: Toward an Archaeology of Library and Information Science.

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    Radford, Gary P.

    2003-01-01

    Introduces Michel Foucault's "Archaeology of Knowledge" as a way of addressing Wayne Wiegand's charges of problems in the discipline of library and information science. Highlights include a discussion of discursive formations, or the ways in which a collection of texts are organized with respect to each other; and history as a discursive…

  3. Somaesthetics and Racism: Toward an Embodied Pedagogy of Difference

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    Granger, David A.

    2010-01-01

    This paper begins by examining the architectonics of the body and the mind-body relationship in the work of John Dewey, Michel Foucault, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In doing so, it utilizes philosopher Richard Shusterman's analytic somaesthetics to expose the way racist ideology is covertly materialized and preserved through encoding in somatic norms…

  4. An architect for mental health: an appreciation of Michele Tansella.

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    Thornicroft, Graham

    2017-06-01

    Michele Tansella, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Verona, died in 2015. This editorial pays tribute to his contributions to scholarship in the field of psychiatric epidemiology and health service research, and to his highly effective efforts to improve mental healthcare, locally, nationally and internationally. © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017.

  5. Analysis of the normal optical, Michel and molecular potentials on ...

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    6. — journal of. June 2016 physics pp. 1275–1286. Analysis of the normal ... the levels are obtained for the three optical potentials to estimate the quality ... The experimental angular distribution data for the 40Ca(6Li, d)44Ti reaction .... analysed using the normal optical, Michel and molecular potentials within the framework.

  6. Interpreting Foucault: An Evaluation of a Foucauldian Critique of Education

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    Woermann, Minka

    2012-01-01

    The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault's work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in education, which is understood as a societal institution, and hence, as a modern regime of institutional power. In…

  7. Seduction as a Game of Reversals and Death. Understanding Jean Baudrillard’s Seduction through Patricia Duncker’s Hallucinating Foucault (La seducción como un juego de inversiones y muerte. Comprender Seduction, de Jean Baudrillard mediante Hallucinating Foucault, de Patricia Duncker

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    Alejandra Giangiulio Lobo

    2014-11-01

    Full Text Available Se estudia la teoría de la seducción de Jean Baudrillard mediante el análisis de la novela Hallucinating Foucault, de Patricia Duncker, para mostrar que el proceso de lectura es un acto seductor y un juego obsesivo entre lector y escritor. Estas características se comprueban con la inversión de las jerarquías presentes, del cambio de roles y de una muerte literal y metafórica. Hallucinating Foucault muestra la complejidad entre lector y escritor, vistos como compañeros de juego, parte de una relación que respectivamente alimenta su imaginación y su creatividad. Jean Baudrillard’s theory of seduction is studied by the analysis of the novel Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker, to verify that the process of reading is a seductive act and a compulsive game among readers and writers. These features are shown by the reversal of the hierarchies present, the changing of roles and a literal and metaphorical death. Thus, Hallucinating Foucault shows the complexity between readers and writers, seen as playmates and partners that mutually feed one another’s imagination and creativity.

  8. O sujeito em Foucault: estética da existência ou experimento moral?

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    JURANDIR FREIRE COSTA

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    Full Text Available O artigo discute as objeções levantadas às idéias de Foucault sobre a ética do sujeito, que levariam a um descompromisso com os valores universais e princípios das democracias liberais. Discutindo as proposições de Taylor, Hochlitz, Hadot e Rorty, a resposta de Foucault se construiria a partir de uma mudança radical na imagem do sujeito e nos modos de vida relacional que, no caso da sexualidade, ao se redescreverem as categorias, colocaria em questão a atual hierarquia moral das práticas sexuais, com suas relações fixas de dominação e sujeição.

  9. Measurement of Michel Parameters ($\\bar\\eta$, $\\xi\\kappa$) in the radiative leptonic decay of tau at Belle

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    Abdesselam, A.

    2017-06-22

    We present the first measurement of the Michel parameters $\\bar{\\eta}$ and $\\xi\\kappa$ in the radiative leptonic decay of the $\\tau$ lepton using 703 f$\\mathrm{b}^{-1}$ of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. The Michel parameters are measured by an unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the kinematic information of $e^+e^-\\rightarrow\\tau^+\\tau^-\\rightarrow (\\pi^+\\pi^0 \\bar{\

  10. The Constitution of Outdoor Education Groups: An Analysis of the Literature?

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    Zink, Robyn

    2010-01-01

    Groups are ubiquitous in outdoor education and while there is a lot of literature on groups, there is limited examination of the assumptions made about groups and the effects these assumptions have on the practices of outdoor education. I utilise some of Michel Foucault's (1992) tools to investigate literature on outdoor education groups.…

  11. Géographies esthétiques de l'imaginaire postcolonial

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    Med udgangspunkt i udvalgte begreber om litterær udsigelse og fortællerstrategier hentet fra Mihail Bakhtine, Emile Benveniste og Alain Ducrot præsenteres en ny måde at begrebsliggøre udsigelsessubjektet på i litterære tekster. Nyskabelsen sker bl.a. ved at inddrage Michel Foucaults begreb om...

  12. Biting the forbidden apple: Unmasking the strategies that married ...

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    Indepth interviews were carried out with six married women who were involved in extra marital affairs with other men and these took place on a face to face basis. Goffman's dramaturgical theory and Michel Foucault's concept of the gaze and the African concept of Ubuntu are the sociological lenses which were used to ...

  13. Love, discipline, punishment or wife battering: A view from Ubuntu ...

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    I shall draw from the philosophy of Ubuntu and the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. I shall tease out how the elderly perceive wife battering as love, discipline and punishment. Data used in this paper shall be drawn from structured interviews and focus groups that were conducted in 2015 under the auspices of ...

  14. Rebellious Women

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    Madsen, Peter

    2010-01-01

    At the background of a short presentation of concepts of discourse (in particular in Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault) and of the concept of shari'a a Spanish court case against an imam in reference to his publication on Women in Islam, where sura 4 verse 34 of the Quran is a central reference...

  15. Widening Participation, the Instrumentalization of Knowledge and the Reproduction of Inequality

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    Mavelli, Luca

    2014-01-01

    According to Michel Foucault, modernity is predicated on the emergence of an instrumental idea of knowledge, which does not affect the constitution of the individual as a subject. This article aims to explore this thesis in the context of British Higher Education through a problematization of widening participation policies, and how they have been…

  16. An Outdoor and Environmental Education Community of Practice: Self Stylisation or Normalisation?

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    Preston, Lou

    2012-01-01

    In this article, I draw on a qualitative longitudinal study to explore the influence of a tertiary Outdoor and Environmental Education (OEE) course on the formation of environmental ethics among students. In this task, I bring together Lave & Wenger (1991) and Wenger's (1998) concept of "communities of practice" and Michel Foucault's later work on…

  17. Sundhedssociologi

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    sygdom og sundhed. I bogens første del præsenteres en række vigtige sociologiske forfatterskaber: Anthony Giddens, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Erving Goffman og Pierre Bourdieu. I anden del sættes der fokus på en række sociologiske temaer med relevans for sundhedsfagene: organisation...

  18. Muslim women in the western media: Foucault, agency, governmentality and ethics

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    Vintges, K.

    2012-01-01

    This article compares the ways in which Saba Mahmood’s The Politics of Piety (2005) and Cressida Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalization (2007), unlike current governmentality studies, employ the later Foucault’s ethical theory. By explaining the theoretical framework of the

  19. Cuando nos quedamos solos: Resistir en la incertidumbre Prácticas de emancipación y autonomía When we stay alone: Resist in uncertainty. Emancipation and empowerment practices

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    Ester Jordana Lluch

    2013-03-01

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    Ante la incertidumbre que nos rodea se plantea la necesidad de resistir en la universidad sin ningún diagnóstico del presente. Sin embargo, podemos partir de las críticas a dos de los rasgos de la universidad moderna que la han caracterizado: autonomía y emancipación. Trataremos de vislumbrar qué prácticas de resistencia puedan tener lugar aquí y ahora, reelaborando críticamente ambos principios a partir de las reflexiones de Jacques Rancière y Michel Foucault.

     

    In view of the uncertainty that surrounds us, there appears the need to resist in the university without any diagnosis of the present. For it, we can depart from the critiques to two of the features that have been characterized the modern university: autonomy and emancipation. We will to try to glimpse what practices of resistance could take place here and now, re-elaborating critically both principles using the reflections of Jacques Rancière and Michel Foucault.

     

  20. Foucault, Experiência, Literatura

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    João Rodolfo Munhoz Ohara

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available Em uma das várias entrevistas nas quais discute sua insatisfação com o horizonte filosófico de seus dias de estudante, dominado pelo marxismo, pela fenomenologia e pelo existencialismo, Foucault faz a seguinte afirmação: "para mim, a ruptura se deu primeiramente Waiting for Godot, de Beckett, uma performance de tirar o fôlego." Meu objetivo neste texto é estabelecer as bases para compreender como é possível que um trabalho de literatura tenha tal efeito - qual seja, forçar-nos a pensar de outra maneira. É realmente possível que trabalhos de literatura mudem as pessoas que os leem? Ou, para dar a essa questão um foco ligeiramente diferente, as pessoas são capazes de mudarem a si mesmas através de suas leituras literárias?

  1. Foucault e Heidegger. A ética e as formas históricas do habitar (e do não habitar

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    LUÍS CLAUDIO FIGUEIREDO

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    Full Text Available A partir de uma entrevista em que Foucault coloca a obra de Heidegger como uma das duas bases fundamentais de seu próprio pensamento (a outra é Nietzsche, o texto desenvolve uma das possibilidades de aproximação entre Heidegger e Foucault: a compreensão da ética enquanto morada e habitação. Os trabalhos derradeiros de Foucault, em que se renova o pensamento da ética através de um nítida separação entre ética e moral e mediante uma análise da ética enquanto procedimentos e técnicas de subjetivação - as tecnologias de si - são então contemplados por este ângulo. Ao final, é retomada e discutida a última mensagem de Foucault, a sua proposta de uma ética entendida como uma nova estética existencial.

  2. Two often disregarded aspects of Foucault's pendulum

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    Pérez, José-Philippe; Pujol, Olivier

    2015-01-01

    This paper revisits the famous Foucault's pendulum by highlighting two often-disregarded aspects in mechanics courses. The first one concerns the existence of a local accelerated reference frame to express the law of dynamics without the Coriolis force. The second aspect deals with the geometrical phase that appears in pendulum dynamics. This last point, which could appear banal, should be related to analogous consideration in quantum physics. It is also linked to vectorial parallel transport of the pendulum angular momentum eigenvector. Numerical simulations with MATLAB are proposed. (paper)

  3. Lire soumission entre Charlie hebdo et le Bataclan : L’islamisation selon Michel

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    José Domingues de Almeida

    2015-01-01

    This paper aims to a critical reading of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission (2015) just after Paris attacks, and intends to identify some features of continuity and rupture when compared with Houellebecq’s former novels’ narrative procedures and topics.

  4. On the Political Genealogy of Trump after Foucault

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    Bruce M. Knauft

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available How would Foucault have viewed Trump as President, and Trumpism in the US more generally? More realistically, how can we discern and insightfully apply genealogical insights after Foucault to better comprehend and act in relation to our current political situation in the US? Questions of factuality across a base register of asserted falsehoods are now prominent in American politics in ways that put assertions of scholarly objectivity and interpretation in yet deeper question than previously. The extent, range, and vitriol of alt-Right assertions and their viral growth in American media provoke progressivist resistance and anxiety, but how can this opposition be most productively channeled? This paper examines a range of critical perspectives, timeframes, and topical optics with respect to Trump and Trumpism, including nationalist, racist, sexist, class-based, and oligarchical dimensions. These are considered in relation to media and the incitement of polarized subjectivity and dividing practices, and also in relation to Marxist political economy, neoliberalism/neoimperialism, and postcolonialism. I then address the limit points of Foucault, including with respect to engaged political activism and social protest movements, and I consider the relevance of these for the diverse optics that political genealogy as a form of analysis might pursue. Notwithstanding and indeed because of the present impetus to take organized political action, a Foucauldian perspective is useful in foregrounding the broader late modern formations of knowledge, power, and subjectivity within which both Rightist and Leftist political sensibilities in the US are presently cast. At larger issue are the values inscribed through contemporary late modernity that inform both sides of present divisive polarities—and which make the prognosis of tipping points or future political outcomes particularly difficult. As such, productive strategies of activist opposition are likely to

  5. Sand Face: Humanism after Antihumanism

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    Arcilla, René V.

    2015-01-01

    Have the critiques of humanism of the 1960s and 1970s buried this idea once and for all? Or is there a way that humanism can absorb some of this antihumanist thinking and thereby renew itself? Drawing on writings of Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger in order to illuminate artworks by Robert Smithson and…

  6. Regulering af jødiske kroppe

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    Schleicher, Marianne

    2014-01-01

    på teori dels af Michel Foucault om, hvordan kultur sikrer sin egen overlevelse ved at indsamle viden om bl.a. kroppe med henblik på at regulere brugen af dem, dels af Judith Butler, der bl.a. forklarer, hvordan kultur trods alt er åben for såkaldt subversion, idet det bidrager til at udvide og...

  7. Marées et touristes au Mont-Saint-Michel

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    Fernand Verger

    2001-09-01

    Full Text Available L’imaginaire collectif fait la plus grande place au phénomène des grandes marées dans la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel, mais la fréquentation touristique n’est que faiblement déterminée par l’occurrence des grandes marées, malgré l’existence d’un public spécifique, relativement peu nombreux, attiré par le spectacle du mascaret.

  8. Aspirational individuals in the work of Michel Houellebecq and James Buchanan

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    E. Dekker (Erwin)

    2017-01-01

    textabstractLoneliness and alienation are central themes in the work of French novelist Michel Houellebecq. His works Whatever (1998) and The Possibility of an Island (2004, hereafter TPI), which will be our central focus here, explore the extent to which man can be an island, or indeed is made into

  9. Existe sujeito em Michel Maffesoli?

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    Marli Appel da Silva

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available Este ensaio discute a concepção de sujeito na abordagem teórica de Michel Maffesoli. As ideias desse autor estão em voga em alguns meios acadêmicos no Brasil e são difundidas por algumas mídias de grande circulação nacional. Entretanto, ao longo de suas obras, os pressupostos que definem quem é o sujeito maffesoliano se encontram pouco clarificados. Portanto, para alcançar o objetivo a que se propõe, este ensaio desenvolve uma análise da epistemologia e da ontologia maffesoliana com a finalidade de compreender as origens dos pressupostos desse autor, ou seja, as teorias e os autores em que Maffesoli se baseou para desenvolver uma visão de sujeito. Com essa compreensão, pretende-se responder à questão: existe sujeito na abordagem teórica de Maffesoli.

  10. Il mondo in un giardino (e in un labirinto, in un tappeto, in un romanzo illimitato

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    Guido Laino

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Per Michel Foucault il giardino è il più antico esempio di un’eterotopia che “ha il potere di giustapporre, in un unico luogo reale, diversi spazi, diversi luoghi che sono tra loro incompatibili” (Foucault 1994, 16; è un luogo sacro di tradizione millenaria che, in Oriente, rappresenta simbolicamente un microcosmo, “la più piccola particella del mondo e […] anche la totalità del mondo” (ibid. 18. Il giardino è un’eterotopia che Foucault pone in parallelo allo spazio teatrale e al cinema, che nella propria cornice pure riproducono il mondo nella sua sostanza eterogenea: nell’opera d’arte, come nel giardino, convivono diversi luoghi, le distanze sono ridotte alla geometria della propria rappresentazione, il tempo si comprime o si espande all’interno di un ordine narrativo funzionale alla rilettura dell’artista.

  11. Lire soumission entre Charlie hebdo et le Bataclan : L’islamisation selon Michel

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    José Domingues de Almeida

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper aims to a critical reading of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission (2015 just after Paris attacks, and intends to identify some features of continuity and rupture when compared with Houellebecq’s former novels’ narrative procedures and topics.

  12. Lire soumission entre Charlie hebdo et le Bataclan : L’islamisation selon Michel

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    José Domingues de Almeida

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper aims to a critical reading of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission (2015 just after Paris attacks, and intends to identify some features of continuity and rupture when compared with Houellebecq’s former novels’ narrative procedures and topics.

  13. Det utilstrækkelige subjekt

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    Plessis, Erik Mygind du

    2013-01-01

    Denne artikel undersøger, hvordan bestemte personlighedstræk søges problematiseret og kultiveret i moderne selvhjælpslitteratur. Undersøgelsen, som har et særligt fokus på autonomi, trækker teoretisk på Michel Foucaults begreb problematisering samt Foucaults tanker om governmentality og selvstyring...... for autonomi som problem, og i artiklens anden halvdel vises det, hvordan den allestedsnærværende ufuldendthed ved subjektet manifesterer sig i paradokset, hvor subjektet bør være selvstændigt, autonomt og handle ud fra sin egne overbevisninger, men samtidig udleder denne evne til at handle autonomt fra de...

  14. Biopolitics, Terri Schiavo, and the sovereign subject of death.

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    Bishop, Jeffrey P

    2008-12-01

    Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare; humanity installs each of its violences in a system of rules and thus proceeds from domination to domination. (Foucault, 1984, 85) In this essay, I take a note from Michel Foucault regarding the notion of biopolitics. For Foucault, biopolitics has both repressive and constitutive properties. Foucault's claim is that with the rise of modern government, the state became exceedingly concerned about the body politic, the bodies that make up the polis, including the health of those bodies. However, Giorgio Agamben claims that Foucault and all western political philosophy misses the relationship between power and Sovereignty, with disastrous results and totalizing tendencies. I explore the case of Terri Schiavo claiming that the social conservatives have attempted to politicize bare life in its legal maneuverings, but I also show how the social liberals open an uncontrollable space between life and death. Both the left and the right miss the aporia at the heart of western political philosophy, and bioethics is complicit in the totalizing effects of contemporary medicine.

  15. Usos e significados do conhecimento histórico em estudos organizacionais: uma (releitura do taylorismo sob a perspectiva do poder disciplinar Uses and meanings of historical knowledge in organizational studies: a (rereading of Taylorism from the disciplinary power perspective

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    Eloisio Moulin de Souza

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é problematizar - por meio da ampliação dos usos e significados do conhecimento histórico proposta pela perspectiva da nova história e pela genealogia de Michel Foucault - abordagens de estudos organizacionais mais convencionais que assumem como objeto de pesquisa os grandes feitos de grandes homens da história da Administração. Nesse sentido, tem-se: (1 como foco principal de análise uma releitura da versão legitimada do taylorismo como acontecimento histórico diretamente responsável por um conjunto de preceitos e técnicas de racionalização do trabalho; e (2 como argumento central a premissa de que as "subversões" epistemológicas da história renovada e da genealogia possibilitam-nos ler esse acontecimento com outras lentes e identificar a obra de F. W. Taylor como inserida em um conjunto maior de práticas sociais disciplinadoras. Para alcançar esse propósito, o texto está organizado em três partes. Na primeira parte, expõe-se o significado de história para Michel Foucault, em seguida, analisa-se o movimento da história nova e suas convergências com a proposta de conhecimento histórico da genealogia. Por fim, na terceira parte, o taylorismo é repensado e analisado à luz da sociedade disciplinar.This paper aims to discuss - by expanding the uses and meanings of historical knowledge as proposed from the new history perspective and by Michel Foucault's genealogy - approaches of more conventional organizational studies which take as research object the great deeds of great men in the management history. In this sense, one has: (1 as the main focus of analysis a re-reading of the legitimate version of Taylorism as a historical event directly responsible for a set of precepts and techniques of work rationalization; and (2 as the central argument the premise that epistemological "subversions" of renewed history and genealogy allow us to read this event through other lenses and identify the work of F

  16. É possível uma sociologia do sujeito? Uma abordagem sobre as teorias de Foucault e Touraine Is a sociology of the subject possible? An approach to the theories of Foucault and Touraine

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    Neiva Furlin

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available Este ensaio de pesquisa analisa as concepções teóricas da noção de sujeito nas obras de dois intelectuais franceses, Touraine e Foucault. Trata-se de uma abordagem comparativa, na qual se busca estabelecer uma relação entre os aspectos que convergem e se distinguem na teoria social desses autores, procurando refletir sobre as suas contribuições para a compreensão da sociedade contemporânea, especificamente no que tange aos processos de subjetivação dos indivíduos. Em razão disso, selecionaram-se as últimas obras da trajetória acadêmica desses intelectuais. Tanto Touraine como Foucault apontam contribuições teóricas para uma sociologia que não recorre aos grandes fenômenos históricos, mas que coloca em cena o esforço do sujeito no interior das microrrelações sociais, em suas contradições culturais, econômicas, políticas e pessoais.This research essay analyzes the theoretical concepts of the notion of "subject" in the works of two French intellectuals, Touraine and Foucault. This comparative approach seeks to establish a relation between the convergent and the contrasting aspects of their social theories, on the purpose of reflecting on their contributions to the comprehension of contemporary society, especially concerning individuals' subjectivation processes. For this purpose we chose the last works in the scholarly trajectory of these intellectuals. Touraine as well as Foucault offer theoretical contributions to a sociology that does not resort to the great historical phenomena, but puts the efforts of the subjects within their social micro-relations on the stage, considering their cultural, economic, political and personal contradictions.

  17. Foucaults governmentality-begreb og studiet af kolonialisme

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    2007-01-01

    Foucaults governmentalitybegreb har, ikke mindst, i de sidste to årtier inspireret forskere til at genanalysere kulturelle praktikker. Denne artikel viser, hvordan governmentality-begrebet er blevet bragt i anvendelse i et konkret studie af kolonialismen på Fiji, og påpeger samtidigt de mange...... interessante paralleller mellem Fiji og Grønland mod slutningen af 1800-tallet. Begge steder stod de koloniale administratorer over for den udfordring at skulle mediere mellem et ønske om at bevare den "traditionelle kultur" og et ønske om at modernisere og optimere befolkningens forhold. Artiklen påpeger...

  18. Between Gentlemen, Sambas and Beers: the discursive construction of the easy mulatto woman in Brazil

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    Amanda Braga

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    Full Text Available This article aims to undertake a reading of the discourses that deal with the imaginary about easy mulatto woman in Brazil (Freyre, 2006 [1933], considering its historical and semiological density. That aim is based on statements that emerge on that mulatto woman in slavery period, discussing how it is put to the test during the twentieth century and, finally, analysing the updates and appropriations of that memory nowadays. The starting point is a discourse analysis derived from Michel Pêcheux, but also incorporates the contributions of Michel Foucault, as well as current discussions undertaken by Jean-Jacques Courtine, especially those concerning to the Historical Semiology.

  19. Cultura e cotidiano escolar

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    Nilda Alves

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Based on the ideas espoused by Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault, the present paper seeks to show the ways in which the “knitting of culture” is made through the multiple and diverse relationships between “everyday practitioners” within “cultural happenings”. By making use of images of the everyday school and other routine daily contexts, we discuss questions concerning the relationships between culture and everyday educational dynamics, focusing on a theme that has occupied the centre of the studies developed by our research group, namely: “Networks of knowledge in education and communication: the question of citizenship, technology and cultural artefacts”.

  20. L’HISTOIRE ORALE DANS LE CADRE DES ÉCRITS SUR SOI ET SUR AUTRUI: Points de réflexion au sujet de la construction d'une méthodologie production historiographique

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    Full Text Available RÉSUMÉ Cet article vise à analyser le processus réflexif de construction de la connaissance historique en se basant sur la méthodologie de l’histoire orale et la modalité des histoires de vie. On pourra ainsi tenter de comprendre ce processus chargé de sensibilités, d’émotions, d’expériences personnelles et collectives, heureuses ou traumatiques, qu’elles soient intimes ou liées à un vécu collectif. Notre fondement théorique s’appuiera sur les postulats de Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Jacques Le Goff, Ulpiano Menezes, Mary Cristine Josso et Tomás Tadeu da Silva. La réflexion a été construite à partir d’une analyse bibliographique dialoguant avec des auteurs se consacrant à l’histoire orale, tels que Verena Alberti, Ana Maria Mauad, entre autres. MOTS-CLÉS Histoire; Mémoire; Oralité; Histoires de Vie.     RESUMO O presente artigo visa perscrutar o processo reflexivo da construção do conhecimento histórico, através da metodologia da história oral, utilizando a modalidade das histórias de vida, por meio da qual é possível entender o processo, eivada de sensibilidades, emoções, experiências pessoais e coletivas, felizes ou traumáticas, sejam elas intimistas ou entrecruzamento com outras vivências coletivas. A fundamentação teórica baseia-se nos postulados de Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Jacques Le Goff, Ulpiano Menezes, Mary Cristine Josso e Tomás Tadeu da Silva. A reflexão foi constituída a partir da análise bibliográfica que dialoga com autores devotados à História Oral como Verena Alberti, Ana Maria Mauad dentre outros. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: História; Memória; Oralidade; Histórias de Vida.     ABSTRACT This article aims to scrutinize the reflective process of the construction of historical knowledge through oral history methodology, using the method of life stories through which to understand the process in the course of a life, fraught with sensitivities, emotions

  1. Lettere di Vilfredo Pareto all’amico Roberto Michels: confini e confine nel Trattato di Sociologia Generale del 1916

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    Raffaele Federici

    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available In questa ricerca di senso fra la fine di un'epoca e la nuova visione del mondo, c’è, nei due Autori, quello che potrebbe chiamarsi una betweenness: Pareto, quasi un franco-italiano, e Michels, un italiano-tedesco, anzi un più che italiano. Nella linea di faglia rappresentata dal primo conflitto mondiale, i due sociologi sono in una doppia relazione interiore appunto franco-italiana Pareto e italo-tedesca Michels e una relazione esteriore fra il mondo di ieri e il mondo successivo al cataclisma che fu la prima guerra mondiale, quando ben quattro imperi colossali erano stati smembrati (l’Impero Russo, l’Impero Tedesco, l’Impero Austro-ungarico e l’Impero ottomano, nello stesso tempo in cui Emile Durkheim guardava con inquietudine alla disgregazione delle vecchie comunità tradizionali, dove il senso della crisi del tempo investe non solo le persone e i comportamenti, ma il mondo logico stesso. Lo scambio epistolare avviene nella stessa terra: Pareto a Celigny, sul lago di Ginevra , e Michels a Basilea , lungo le rive del Reno. Vi è, fra i due sociologi un profondo rispetto, che vedrà Robert Michels dedicare allo “scienziato e amico Vilfredo Pareto con venerazione” un’opera importante come “Problemi di sociologia applicata” pubblicata solo tre anni dopo il Trattato di Sociologia Generale del Maestro. In questa antologia di saggi Robert Michels, probabilmente composti fra il 1914 e il 1917, negli anni del grande cataclisma, anzi concepiti prima «dell’insediamento di questa terribile corte suprema di cassazione di tutte le nostre ideologie, che è la guerra» , quindi contemporanea al Trattato, il Maestro viene citato tre volte, come Max Weber, ma, de facto, la presenza di Pareto è continua. In particolare, il richiamo al Maestro è iscritto a due piste di ricerca: da una parte la realtà della ricerca sociologica e del suo amplissimo spettro di analisi e dall’altra la teoria della circolazione delle elités. È proprio

  2. Moral regulation: historical geography and scale

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    This paper introduces a special issue on the historical geography of moral regulation and scale. The paper examines the rich and varied work of geographers on moral geographies before looking at wider work on moral regulation influenced by Michel Foucault. Highlighting the significance of the\\ud neglected dimension of scale, the paper introduces the themes examined in the subsequent papers.

  3. Noções conceituais da sexualidade humana num recorte foucaultiano - doi: 10.5102/ucs.v3i1.546

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    Renan Custódio do Nascimento

    2008-04-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta discussão acerca da sexualidade humana, em perspectiva histórico-cultural, com base na obra de Michel Foucault, História da sexualidade, que evidencia a importância e o papel da linguagem na formação de dispositivos, sobrepondo-se à visão biológica da sexualidade.

  4. Killer in our Midst: Part One. An Analysis of Court Transcripts ...

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    In the spirit of the work edited by Michel Foucault (1975) on Pierre Rivière, I propose to put philosophy to work by tackling a case study in which I shall analyse certain court transcripts that pertain to the defence of serial killer, Stewart Wilken, in Die Staat Teen Stewart Wilken. My analysis of these documents is intended to ...

  5. Casimir-Foucault interaction: Free energy and entropy at low temperature

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    Intravaia, Francesco; Ellingsen, Simen Å.; Henkel, Carsten

    2010-09-01

    It was recently found that thermodynamic anomalies which arise in the Casimir effect between metals described by the Drude model can be attributed to the interaction of fluctuating Foucault (or eddy) currents [F. Intravaia and C. Henkel, Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.103.130405 103, 130405 (2009).] We focus on the transverse electric (TE) polarization, where the anomalies occur, and show explicitly that the two leading terms of the low-temperature correction to the Casimir free energy of interaction between two plates are identical to those pertaining to the Foucault current interaction alone, up to a correction which is very small for good metals. Moreover, a mode density along real frequencies is introduced, showing that the TE contribution to the Casimir free energy, as given by the Lifshitz theory, separates in a natural manner into contributions from eddy currents and propagating cavity modes, respectively. The latter have long been known to be of little importance to the low-temperature Casimir anomalies. This convincingly demonstrates that eddy current modes are responsible for the large temperature correction to the Casimir effect between Drude metals, predicted by the Lifshitz theory, but not observed in experiments.

  6. Casimir-Foucault interaction: Free energy and entropy at low temperature

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    Intravaia, Francesco; Ellingsen, Simen A.; Henkel, Carsten

    2010-01-01

    It was recently found that thermodynamic anomalies which arise in the Casimir effect between metals described by the Drude model can be attributed to the interaction of fluctuating Foucault (or eddy) currents [F. Intravaia and C. Henkel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 130405 (2009).] We focus on the transverse electric (TE) polarization, where the anomalies occur, and show explicitly that the two leading terms of the low-temperature correction to the Casimir free energy of interaction between two plates are identical to those pertaining to the Foucault current interaction alone, up to a correction which is very small for good metals. Moreover, a mode density along real frequencies is introduced, showing that the TE contribution to the Casimir free energy, as given by the Lifshitz theory, separates in a natural manner into contributions from eddy currents and propagating cavity modes, respectively. The latter have long been known to be of little importance to the low-temperature Casimir anomalies. This convincingly demonstrates that eddy current modes are responsible for the large temperature correction to the Casimir effect between Drude metals, predicted by the Lifshitz theory, but not observed in experiments.

  7. Determination of the Michel parameter in tau decay

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    Albrecht, H.; Ehrlichmann, H.; Harder, G.; Krueger, A.; Nau, A.; Nilsson, A.W.; Nippe, A.; Oest, T.; Reidenbach, M.; Schaefer, M.; Schmidt-Parzefall, W.; Schroeder, H.; Schulz, H.D.; Sefkow, F.; Wurth, R.; Appuhn, R.D.; Drescher, A.; Hast, C.; Herrera, G.; Kolanoski, H.; Lange, A.; Lindner, A.; Mankel, R.; Scheck, H.; Schieber, M.; Schweda, G.; Spaan, B.; Walther, A.; Wegener, D.; Britton, D.I.; MacFarlane, D.B.; McLean, K.W.; Patel, P.M.; Tsipolitis, G.; Tzamariudaki, K.; Charlesworth, C.E.K.; Krieger, P.; Kutschke, R.; Orr, R.S.; Parsons, J.A.; Prentice, J.D.; Seidel, S.C.; Yoon, T.S.; Edwards, K.W.; Kapitza, H.; Ruf, T.; Schael, S.; Schubert, K.R.; Strahl, K.; Waldi, R.; Weseler, S.

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    Using the ARGUS detector at the DORIS II e + e - storage ring we have studied the electron and muon energy spectra in τ - →e - νanti ν and τ - →μ - νanti ν. The measured value of the Michel parameter, ρ=0.742±0.035±0.020, is in good agreement with a standard V-A coupling at the τ-ν τ -W vertex. Pure V, A and V+A couplings are completely excluded by this measurement. Upper limits have been obtained for two-body tau decays, including final states with a Goldstone boson. (orig.)

  8. Foucault current testing of ferritic steel fuel cans

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    Stossel, A.

    1984-10-01

    The analysis of impedance involved by a Foucault current test of ferritic steel tubes, is quite different from the classical analysis which refers to non-magnetic tubes; more particularly, volume defects are considered as magnetic anomalies. Contrarily to current instructions which recommend to test the product in a satured magnetic state, it is very interesting to work with a continuous energizing field, comparatively low, corresponding to a sequenced magnetization, of which value is obtained according to the magnetic structure of the product. This analysis is useful when testing fast reactor fuel cans [fr

  9. Puud pillavad koort, kirjanikud tekste : Michel Butor Oklahomas / Ivar Ivask ; tõlkinud Mart Kuldkepp

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    2010-01-01

    Michel Butor külastas 1971-1981 Oklahoma Ülikooli kolmel korral: 1971 esines loengutega, 1974 kuulus Neustadti kirjandusauhinna žüriisse ning 1981 toimus ülikoolis tema loomingule pühendatud Puterbaugh' konverents

  10. Derrida, Foucault and Critical Pedagogies of Friendship in Conflict-Troubled Societies

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    Zembylas, Michalinos

    2015-01-01

    The aim of this paper is to place Derrida's and Foucault's ideas on friendship in conversation and then discuss how those ideas provide a pedagogical space in which critical educators in conflict-troubled societies can promote new modes of being and living with others. In particular, the notion of critical pedagogies of friendship is…

  11. Foucault and Human Rights: Seeking the Renewal of Human Rights Education

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    Zembylas, Michalinos

    2016-01-01

    This article takes up Foucault's politics of human rights and suggests that it may constitute a point of departure for the renewal of HRE, not only because it rejects the moral superiority of humanism--the grounding for the dominant liberal framework of international human rights--but also because it makes visible the complexities of human rights…

  12. 16. J Situma A Critique of Foucault's Conception and Prediction of ...

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    transcends both in emphasizing the significance of historical social reality in understanding ... However, Foucault attributes the freedom of writing of text to a new .... The author's name “is not simply an element of speech (as a subject, a ..... 3 The tension between the author and the adaptor of the text for movie and theatre, ...

  13. FOUCAULT, Michel. A ordem do discurso: aula inaugural no Collège de France, pronunciada em 2 de dezembro de 1970. Tradução de Laura Fraga de Almeida Sampaio. São Paulo: Edições Loyola, 2012.

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    Ramon Taniguchi Piretti Brandão

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    Full Text Available O presente livro é um fascículo onde Foucault adota um tom de conferência, relatando suas reflexões e pesquisas acerca das diversas abordagens possíveis do discurso e de como ele se dissemina em diferentes sociedades. O autor demonstra, dentre outras coisas, como o discurso exerce uma função de controle, de limitação e validação das regras de poder em diferentes períodos históricos e grupos sociais.

  14. Prantsuse minister : Toidukontroll rangemaks! / Michel Barnier ; interv. Silja Lättemäe

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    2008-01-01

    Ilmunud ka: Vesti Dnja 13. märts lk. 5. Oma intervjuus kinnitas Eestit väisanud Prantsuse põllumajandusminister Michel Barnier, et Prantsusmaa pooldab rangemat toiduohutuse kontrolli Euroopa Liidu välispiiril, samuti piimakvootide säilimist ja tootmise eelistamist maaelu arengule, Eestiga koostööd ollakse valmis tegema energeetikas

  15. Os Circos Contemporâneos como Heterotopias Organizacionais: Uma Etnografia Multissituada no Contexto Brasil-Canadá

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    Josiane Silva de Oliveira

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    Full Text Available Neste artigo buscamos entender os circos contemporâneos desde a perspectiva das heterotopias organizacionais. Realizamos uma aproximação teórica entre Estudos Baseados em Práticas nos Estudos Organizacionais e o conceito de heterotopias desenvolvido por Michel Foucault. A partir de uma etnografia multissituada focada nos processos organizativos do circo contemporâneo no Brasil e no Canadá, identificamos conjuntos de práticas organizativas que alteraram as relações de forças no campo das artes nos contextos estudados, resultando na produção de outros espaços – ou heterotopias, de acordo com Michel Foucault – na sociedade que possibilitaram os circos se constituírem como organizações. Como contribuição teórica, apresentamos o conceito de heterotopias organizacionais para as análises de organizações que se constituem com base em multiplicidade socioespaciais. A contribuição metodológica do artigo é a apresentação da etnografia multissituada como estratégia de pesquisa de estudos dos processos organizacionais estabelecidos em diferentes contextos culturais e localidades.

  16. Absolut x Adbusters: vínculos sociais da publicidade revelados pela antipublicidade

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    Simone Rocha

    2008-10-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é evidenciar alguns vínculos que a publicidade estabelece com o mundo social por meio do olhar tensionador da antipublicidade. Tomando por base autores como Stuart Hall e Michel Foucault, e através de uma análise sociossemiótica de anúncios da Absolut Vodka e dos spoof ads da ONG canadense Adbusters, procuramos evidenciar alguns dos modos pelos quais a masculinidade é uma representação socialmente compartilhada, tornando-se um elemento relevante a ser considerado na construção de campanhas publicitárias. Palavras-chave: Antipublicidade; publicidade; representações sociais. ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to evidence the links which advertisements build with the social world from the questioning point of view of spoof ads. Based on authors such as Stuart Hall and Michel Foucault, and through a socio- semiotic analysis of Absolut Vodka ads and the spoof ads produced by Canadian NGO Adbusters, we try to highlight some of the ways in which masculinity is a socially shared representation, thus an important factor to be considered in the construction of advertising campaigns. Keywords: Spoof ads; advertisement; social representations.

  17. Sobre o "dizer verdadeiro" no espaço analítico

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    Margarida Tavares Cavalcanti

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available As noções gregas de "dizer verdadeiro" (parrhêsia e "dizedor do verdadeiro" (parrhesiastes, trazidas à luz por Michel Foucault em seu estudo sobre o cuidado e as práticas de si na Antiguidade, são utilizadas para problematizar os modos como a prática de escuta e fala pode se materializar no espaço psicanalítico, assim como seus efeitos. Para constituir-se numa prática de liberdade, a psicanálise dependerá da maneira como o analista exerce sua atividade de "dizedor do verdadeiro".On "free speech" in the analytical space. The Greek notions of "free speech" (parrhêsia and "free speaker" (parrhesiastes, brought to light by Michel Foucault in his study on the care and practices of the self in the Antiquity, are used to problematize the way on how the practice of listening and speaking can be materialized in the psychoanalytical space, as well as its effect. The practice of psychoanalysis will be a practice of freedom, depending on how the analyst uses it to act as "parrhesiastes" - his specific speech activity.

  18. Er Foucault en middelalderlige skamfuld eller ukritisk tænker?

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    Staunæs, Dorthe; Raffnsøe, Sverre

    2018-01-01

    Ifølge Per Aage Brandt indeholder et ikke før udgivet interview med Foucault nøglen til den franske filosofs værk, som »ingen har kunnet finde hoved eller hale på«. Men hvem er det, der ikke kan det? Hvilken form for kritik kræver det at lære noget nyt? Og kan man undgå at begynde i fordommen...

  19. Er Foucault en middelalderlig, skamfuld eller ukritisk tænker?

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    Raffnsøe, Sverre; Staunæs, Dorthe

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    Ifølge Per Aage Brandt indeholder et ikke før udgivet interview med Foucault nøglen til den franske filosofs værk, som »ingen har kunnet finde hoved eller hale på«. Men hvem er det, der ikke kan det? Hvilken form for kritik kræver det at lære noget nyt? Og kan man undgå at begynde i fordommen?...

  20. Braverman, Foucault and the Labor Process: Framing the Current High-Skills Debate

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    Lewis, Theodore

    2007-01-01

    This article examines the current high-skills discourse against the backdrop of labor process theory. It draws on the theoretical debate between Harry Braverman and Michael Foucault, supplementing the traditional treatment of the labor process with Foucauldian insights. The primary argument is that especially in the market-led economies, current…

  1. Technical Mediation and Subjectivation: Tracing and Extending Foucault's Philosophy of Technology.

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    Dorrestijn, Steven

    2012-01-01

    This article focuses on tracing and extending Michel Foucault’s contributions to the philosophy of technology. At first sight his work on power seems the most relevant. In his later work on subjectivation and ethics technology is absent. However, notably by recombining Foucault’s work on power with

  2. Governmentality

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    Dean, Mitchell

    2017-01-01

    This entry describes and analyzes Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an object and field of study, a chronological narrative, and a kind of power. It emphasizes the way in which it connects government to self-government, its distinctive approach to liberalism and neoliberalism as an ...... as an art of government, and its place within the contemporary social sciences as the subfield “governmentality studies.”...

  3. Le radici culturali della diagnosi (Pietro Barbetta

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    Orazio Maria Valastro

    2003-12-01

    Full Text Available Questo libro costituisce il primo approccio italiano alla costruzione di un discorso culturale sulla diagnosi e intende offrire un significativo contributo alla riapertura di un dibattito avviato da Michel Foucault e da Gregory Bateson e precocemente abbandonato: quello sull'importanza della storia sociale, dell'antropologia culturale e degli studi sulla comunicazione in relazione all'insorgenza, alla definizione e alla cura della psiche.

  4. UM DISCURSO SOBRE O MOVIMENTO ESTUDANTIL BRASILEIRO: ANÁLISE FOUCAULTIANA EM TORNO DE BUÑUEL

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    Priscila Canova Motta

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available The objective of this research is to understand, through the postulates “archeology”, “historicity”, “discursive practices”, “subject, knowledge and power”, Michel Foucault, some speeches of official and scientific slant on student movements occurred in 1968 and 1992 in Brazil, tracing relationships between them and the film “the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” by Luis Buñuel (1972.

  5. Foucault's Pendulum, Analog for an Electron Spin State

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    Linck, Rebecca

    2012-11-01

    The classical Lagrangian that describes the coupled oscillations of Foucault's pendulum presents an interesting analog to an electron's spin state in an external magnetic field. With a simple modification, this classical Lagrangian yields equations of motion that directly map onto the Schrodinger-Pauli Equation. This analog goes well beyond the geometric phase, reproducing a broad range of behavior from Zeeman-like frequency splitting to precession of the spin state. By demonstrating that unmeasured spin states can be fully described in classical terms, this research opens the door to using the tools of classical physics to examine an inherently quantum phenomenon.

  6. O corpo problematizado de uma perspectiva histórico-política El cuerpo problematizado de una perspectiva histórico-política The problematized body from a political-historical perspective

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    Kleber Prado Filho

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo trata da produção histórico-política dos corpos dos indivíduos nas sociedades ocidentais modernas, perspectiva mais próxima das ciências sociais e humanas, que é diversa e crítica da clássica abordagem anatômico-fisiológica predominante no domínio das ciências naturais e da medicina. Esta reflexão, apoiada no pensamento de Michel Foucault, busca desnaturalizar uma abordagem do corpo centrada em seus elementos biológicos e anatomofisiológicos, para problematizar a sua construção em termos sociais, econômicos e políticos, além de estéticos, ao longo da história.Este artículo trata de la producción histórico-política de los cuerpos de los individuos en las sociedades occidentales modernas, perspectiva más próxima de las ciencias sociales y humanas, que es diversa y crítica del clásico abordaje anatómico-fisiológico predominante en el dominio de las ciencias naturales y de la medicina. Esta reflexión, apoyada en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault, busca desnaturalizar un abordaje del cuerpo centrado en sus elementos biológicos y anatomofisiológicos, para problematizar su construcción en términos sociales, económicos y políticos, además de estéticos, a lo largo de la historia.The bodies' historical and political production in individuals in modern Western societies is provided. Whereas above perspective is closer to the social and human sciences, it is different and critical to the anatomical and physiological approach predominant in the natural sciences and in medicine. Current analysis, based on Michel Foucault, denaturalizes an approach of the body centered on biological and anatomical-physiological elements and problematizes its construction in social, economical and political terms, besides aesthetical ones, throughout History.

  7. Hacking's 'Between Goffman and Foucault': A Theoretical Frame for Criminology

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    2017-01-01

    This paper aims to analyse how Ian Hacking states the theoretical basis of his research on the classification of people. Although all his early philosophical education had been based in Foucault, it is also true that Erving Goffman’s perspective provided him with epistemological and methodological tools for understanding face-to-face relationships. Hence, all his works must be thought of as social science texts that combine the research on how the individuals are constitu...

  8. Implementation of a quantitative Foucault knife-edge method by means of isophotometry

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    Zhevlakov, A. P.; Zatsepina, M. E.; Kirillovskii, V. K.

    2014-06-01

    Detailed description of stages of computer processing of the shadowgrams during implementation of a modern quantitative Foucault knife-edge method is presented. The map of wave-front aberrations introduced by errors of an optical surface or a system, along with the results of calculation of the set of required characteristics of image quality, are shown.

  9. Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault

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    Wang, Chia-Ling

    2011-01-01

    This paper explores the significance of the concept of power/knowledge in educational theory. The argument proceeds in two main parts. In the first, I consider aspects of Stephen J. Ball's highly influential work in educational theory. I examine his reception of Foucault's concept of power/knowledge and suggest that there are problems in his…

  10. [Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award to Taiwan-born and raised American physicist Michele Ma Chung-pei

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    "The American Physical Society conferred the prestigious Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award to Taiwan-born and raised American physicist Michele Ma Chung-pei recently in recognition of her important contributions to theoretical astrophysics" (1 page).

  11. Foucault imaging and small-angle electron diffraction in controlled external magnetic fields.

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    Nakajima, Hiroshi; Kotani, Atsuhiro; Harada, Ken; Ishii, Yui; Mori, Shigeo

    2016-12-01

    We report a method for acquiring Foucault images and small-angle electron diffraction patterns in external magnetic fields using a conventional transmission electron microscope without any modification. In the electron optical system that we have constructed, external magnetic fields parallel to the optical axis can be controlled using the objective lens pole piece under weak excitation conditions in the Foucault mode and the diffraction mode. We observe two ferromagnetic perovskite-type manganese oxides, La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 (LSMO) and Nd 0.5 Sr 0.5 MnO 3 , in order to visualize magnetic domains and their magnetic responses to external magnetic fields. In rhombohedral-structured LSMO, pinning of magnetic domain walls at crystallographic twin boundaries was found to have a strong influence on the generation of new magnetic domains in external applied magnetic fields. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Japanese Society of Microscopy. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  12. Tecnologia versus ação

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    Villadsen, Kaspar

    2014-01-01

    Oconceito de tecnologia desenvolvido por Michel Foucault ocupa uma posição ambígua na pesquisa organizacional contemporânea. Por um lado, a noção foucaultiana de “tecnologias de poder” tornou-se uma ferramenta analítica chave para pesquisadores organizacionais que buscam compreender...... as complexidades do poder na vida organizacional. Por outro, a abordagem foucaultiana à análise organizacional foi amplamente criticada por negligenciar a ação dos atores humanos, que figuram antes como meros instrumentos do poder, do discurso ou das tecnologias de poder. Este artigo argumenta que essa crítica...... amplamente aceita faz pouca justiça ao pensamento de Foucault sobre tecnologia e organização. Reavaliando o próprio conceito de tecnologia de Foucault, em especial no contexto de suas palestras de 1978, argumentamos que a crítica convencional da “negligência da ação” é mal orientada. Para fugir a essa...

  13. On the (non-)optimality of Michell structures

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    Sigmund, Ole; Aage, Niels; Andreassen, Erik

    2016-01-01

    Optimal analytical Michell frame structures have been extensively used as benchmark examples in topology optimization, including truss, frame, homogenization, density and level-set based approaches. However, as we will point out, partly the interpretation of Michell’s structural continua...... as discrete frame structures is not accurate and partly, it turns out that limiting structural topology to frame-like structures is a rather severe design restriction and results in structures that are quite far from being stiffness optimal. The paper discusses the interpretation of Michell’s theory...... in the context of numerical topology optimization and compares various topology optimization results obtained with the frame restriction to cases with no design restrictions. For all examples considered, the true stiffness optimal structures are composed of sheets (2D) or closed-walled shell structures (3D...

  14. Capacidades epistemológicas foucaultianas: la posibilidad de los dispositivos tecnocientíficos Foucaultian epistemological capacities: the posibility of the technoscientific dispositifs

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    Antonio Arellano Hernández

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available La noción de Red había sido puesta en escena como alternativa conceptual-metodológica para explicar la organización de la investigación; No obstante, a fuerza de acuñaciones nomológicas parecen erosionada sus posibilidades epistemológicas. En este trabajo buscamos fuentes de inspiración en la noción de dispositivo de Michel Foucault, para continuar el estudio de la ciencia y la tecnología de manera que se mantenga una posición metodológica que permita avanzar en el conocimiento de la investigación científico-técnica. Para tal efecto, abordamos el uso descriptivo de la noción de red, el debate por su significación nomológica y metodológica y, finalmente, la discusión sobre las posibilidades epistemológicas de la noción focultiana de dispositivo.Network notion emerged as an alternative methodological concept to explain the research organization. However, after several different nomological uses, its epistemological possibilities seem eroded. In this work we look for inspiration in Michel Foucault's notion of dispositive to continue the study of science and technology within a methodological position allowing to advance the knowledge of scientific and technical research. In that intent, we discuss the descriptive use of the network notion, the debate about its nomological and methodological signification and, al last, the epistemological possibilities of Foucault's notion of dispositive.

  15. Artes da Existência: Foucault, a Psicanálise e as Práticas Clínicas

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    Ferreira Neto, João Leite

    2007-01-01

    Este artigo se propõe a desenvolver um estudo conceitual dos diversos enfoques presentes na obra de Foucault para o estudo das práticas clínicas. Foucault mantém a preocupação de distinguir, a todo tempo, a análise dos vetores de dominação e dos vetores de liberação em suas diferentes formas conceituais. Mostra-se cético em relação ao potencial liberador das práticas clínicas, ainda que admita que possam manter "certa autonomia". A amplitude do conceito de artes da existência ultrapassa o cam...

  16. Michel Houellebecq : un homme, une (soumission

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    Marc Smeets

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Michel Houellebecq, l’auteur le plus controversé de la littérature française contemporaine, semble s’astreindre à une seule et unique mission : celle d’être « vrai » à n’importe quel prix. Observateur et peintre de la société actuelle dans tous ses états, l’auteur de Soumission s’inscrit dans une tradition littéraire qui remonte au XIXe siècle, prolongeant ainsi les fictions de Balzac, de Zola et de Huysmans. De ses prédécesseurs Houellebecq hérite d’un certain goût pour la controverse, talent qui fait naturellement la pluie et le beau temps dans la presse. Le rôle que jouent la documentation et la figure du célibataire permet de situer l’écrivain dans le sillage de la tradition réalistico-naturaliste.

  17. Michel de Certeau. Le marcheur blessé’.

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    François Dosse

    2002-09-01

    Full Text Available Quatrième de couverture. Jésuite et historien spécialiste du 17 e siècle et de la mystique, sociologue de la culture du quotidien, anthropologue, sémiologue et cofondateur de l'école lacanienne, Michel de Certeau est une figure singulière de l'histoire intellectuelle du 20 e siècle. Célébré par le tout-Paris lors de sa disparition en janvier 1986, il fut toute sa vie un franc-tireur. Position qui n'a sans doute pas permis de mesurer son apport au renouvellement des ...

  18. Foucault and the Use of Critique: Breaching the Self-Evidence of Educational Practices

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    Bye, Jayne

    2015-01-01

    This paper poses methodological questions about the role and limits of Foucault's concept of governmentality in education research. Firstly, it argues for the utility of governmentality as a means of exploring questions of power regardless of domain or scale. Secondly, it explores the boundary between the tasks of formulating critique and…

  19. Televizní lifestylové pořady : fenomén maskulinity, proměny a úspěchu

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    Horáčková, Lucie

    2010-01-01

    Diploma thesis "TV Lifestyle Magazines : Phenomenon of Masculinity, Makeover and Success" mostly deals with the concepts of life-style, taste, makeover a masculinity and their factual manifestation in particular television shows. In its theoretical part the thesis defines fundamental themes and concepts based on literature, especially according to Pierre Bourdieu, Dick Hebdige and Michel Foucault. The concept of life-style has gained much importance in contemporary society, because it's actua...

  20. Michel Borghini as a Mentor and Father of the Theory of Polarization in Polarized Targets

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    de Boer, Wim

    2016-02-01

    This paper is a contribution to the memorial session for Michel Borghini at the Spin 2014 conference in Bejing, honoring his pivotal role for the development of polarized targets in high energy physics. Borghini proposed for the first time the correct mechanism for dynamic polarization in polarized targets using organic materials doped with free radicals. In these amorphous materials the spin levels are broadened by spin-spin interactions and g-factor anisotropy, which allows a high dynamic polarization of nuclei by cooling of the spin-spin interaction reservoir. In this contribution I summarize the experimental evidence for this mechanism. These pertinent experiments were done at CERN in the years 1971 - 1974, when I was a graduate student under the guidance of Michel Borghini. I finish by shortly describing how Borghini’s spin temperature theory is now applied in cancer therapy.

  1. The Disciplinary Society and the Birth of Sociology: A Foucauldian Perspective

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    Dušan Ristić

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper is genealogical research that aims to present one of the historical ways that led to the emergence of sociology as a modern science. We discuss how and why this kind of genealogical research is important for explaining the emergence, transformation and regionalisation of power/knowledge. By following the arguments developed by Michel Foucault, we argue that the disciplinary practices emerging in European societies during the 18th and 19th centuries strongly influenced the upsurge of power/knowledge that would be transformed in sociology. We conclude that the appearance of the institutions – elements of what Foucault called the disciplinary society – led to the rise of new discourses of their legitimisation and to the birth of sociology.

  2. Krytyka nowoczesnych stosunków społecznych jako podstawa ponowoczesnej sztuki życia – egzystencjalny wymiar dzieła Michela Foucault [The Critique of Modern Social Relations as the Foundation of the Postmodern Art of Life – the Existential Dimension of the Work of Michel Foucault

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    Markus Lipowicz

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available The aim of the present article is to reveal the essential connection of MichelFoucault’s critical attitude regarding social relationships with the formation of thepostmodern ethos of making out of the human life an artwork. It will be shown thatthe main object of Foucault’s critique are the relations of power and knowledge inthe Christian priesthood and their modern transformation in nonreligious institutions.From this point of view, mainly based on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche,the Christian ethics occur to be an accumulation of techniques of disciplinizationand normalization. This attitude towards Christianity and modernity leads to thepostmodern ethos of making out of life an artwork. This notion is mainly based onthe antique Greek and Roman philosophy, where instead of obeying to universalethical principles the human being struggled to be his own master. Therefore thepostmodern existence tries to be beyond all traditional boundaries, which resultsin the danger of neglecting the historical fact, that Christianity was and still is animportant institution of the Western Civilization.

  3. Educación, técnicas y procesos de estandarización escolar

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    Carlos Ospina Cruz

    2015-10-01

    Full Text Available La pregunta que direcciona la presente reflexión es la siguiente: ¿Por qué puede hablarse de una racionalidad tecnológica existente en la educación? Para sumergirnos en este proceso analítico que nos permita revisar la presencia de las técnicas inherentes a un cierto tipo de racionalidad tecnológica en la educación, establecemos diálogos con A. Leroi Gourhan, Marcel Mauss, Arnold Gehlen, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, C. Wulf, Germán Vargas G., A. Carvajal, J.C. Tedesco, J. Habermas, N. Luhmann y Langdon Winner, entre otros. AbstractThe question that directs this thought is: Why can speak of an existing technological rationality in education? To dive into this analytical process that allows us to check the presence of the techniques inherent in a certain type of technological rationality in education, we establish a dialogue with A. Leroi Gourhan, Marcel Mauss, Arnold Gehlen, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, C. Wulf, German Vargas, A. Carvajal, J.C. Tedesco, J. Habermas, N. Luhmann and Langdon Winner, among others.

  4. Bartolomé de las Casas y Michel de Montaigne: Escritura y lectura del Nuevo Mundo

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    Juan Durán Luzio

    2016-04-01

    Full Text Available Se trata de mostrar cómo la obra de Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, publicada en 1552 y traducida al francés en 1579,fue leída por Michel de Montaigne e incorporada en sus párrafos y doctrinas más relevantes en sus dos ensayos sobre el Nuevo Mundo: "Des Cannibales" (1580 y "Des Coches" (1588.   The work of Bartolomé de Las Casas Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, published in 1552 and translated into French in 1579, is shown to have been read by Michel de Montaigne who included it in the most relevant paragraphs and doctrines in his two essays about the new world: "Des Cannibales" (1850 and "Des Coches" (1588.

  5. The touch of the real. Il New Historicism e il potere del reale psichiatrico in Foucault

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    VARRICCHIO, Francesco

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available [The touch of the real. The New Historicism and the power of the psychiatric real in Foucault] What is the meaning of “touch of the real”? This paper connects the new historicist Greenblatt’s phrase to Foucault’s use of the term real during his lecture course on psychiatric power. According to New Historicism, influenced by the French philosopher’s thought, representation links to reality; but this reality is imbued with power relations. Throughout his course, Foucault repeteadly argues that therapeutic asylum imposes on subjectified bodiesthe reality of power and the power of reality thanks to a disciplinary technology. The constant visibility produces individuals also in other fields of the social and institutional life, in which the Panopticon principle is effective. The real springs from this mechanism and its representation.

  6. Quantitative phase tomography by using x-ray microscope with Foucault knife-edge scanning filter

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    Watanabe, Norio; Tsuburaya, Yuji; Shimada, Akihiro; Aoki, Sadao [Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573 (Japan)

    2016-01-28

    Quantitative phase tomography was evaluated by using a differential phase microscope with a Foucault knife-edge scanning filter. A 3D x-ray phase image of polystyrene beads was obtained at 5.4 keV. The reconstructed refractive index was fairly good agreement with the Henke’s tabulated data.

  7. Quantitative phase tomography by using x-ray microscope with Foucault knife-edge scanning filter

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    Watanabe, Norio; Tsuburaya, Yuji; Shimada, Akihiro; Aoki, Sadao

    2016-01-01

    Quantitative phase tomography was evaluated by using a differential phase microscope with a Foucault knife-edge scanning filter. A 3D x-ray phase image of polystyrene beads was obtained at 5.4 keV. The reconstructed refractive index was fairly good agreement with the Henke’s tabulated data

  8. Quantitative phase tomography by using x-ray microscope with Foucault knife-edge scanning filter

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    Watanabe, Norio; Tsuburaya, Yuji; Shimada, Akihiro; Aoki, Sadao

    2016-01-01

    Quantitative phase tomography was evaluated by using a differential phase microscope with a Foucault knife-edge scanning filter. A 3D x-ray phase image of polystyrene beads was obtained at 5.4 keV. The reconstructed refractive index was fairly good agreement with the Henke's tabulated data.

  9. The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies

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    Raffnsøe, Sverre; Mennicken, Andrea; Miller, Peter

    2017-01-01

    s. Here, an important body of international research investigating governmental technologies operating on subjects as free persons in sites such as education, accounting, medicine and psychiatry emerged. The fourth and last wave arose out of a critical engagement with earlier Foucauldian......Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged with Foucault’s writings over the past thirty years or so. We identify...... of the twentieth century, the second wave led to a focus on discourses as intermediaries that condition ways of viewing and acting. This wave drew mainly on Foucault’s early writings on language and discourse. The third wave was inspired by Foucault’s seminal lectures on governmentality towards the end of the 1970...

  10. Banki-Michell Optimal Design by Computational Fluid Dynamics Testing and Hydrodynamic Analysis

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    Tullio Tucciarelli

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available In hydropower, the exploitation of small power sources requires the use of small turbines that combine efficiency and economy. Banki-Michell turbines represent a possible choice for their simplicity and for their good efficiency under variable load conditions. Several experimental and numerical tests have already been designed for examining the best geometry and optimal design of cross-flow type machines, but a theoretical framework for a sequential design of the turbine parameters, taking full advantage of recently expanded computational capabilities, is still missing. To this aim, after a review of the available criteria for Banki-Michell parameter design, a novel two-step procedure is described. In the first step, the initial and final blade angles, the outer impeller diameter and the shape of the nozzle are selected using a simple hydrodynamic analysis, based on a very strong simplification of reality. In the second step, the inner diameter, as well as the number of blades and their shape, are selected by testing single options using computational fluid dynamics (CFD simulations, starting from the suggested literature values. Good efficiency is attained not only for the design discharge, but also for a large range of variability around the design value.

  11. A Survey on Power and Political Culture in Kalile va Demne

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    2011-04-01

    Postmodernist thinkers, especially Michel Foucault, make it clear that power and political culture are so complicated and affect private and social life. It is possible to claim that there is a meaningful relationship between people’s deed and power in each society. In this article, we take a look at political culture and power in Kalile va Demne and will analyze its effects on people’s thoughts and deeds.

  12. Funktionen des Sports im modernen Staat und in der modernen Diktatur

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    Reinhart, Kai; Krüger, Michael

    2007-01-01

    'Die Argumentation grenzt sich von der Eigenweltthese des Sports ab und gibt einen Überblick über Funktionen, die verschiedenen Formen von Gymnastik, Turnen und Sport im modernen Staat und in der modernen Diktatur übernehmen konnten. Theoretischer Hintergrund der Darstellung ist die Macht- und Subjekttheorie Michel Foucaults. In Beispielen aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts wird deutlich, dass sich staatliche Körpererziehung in preußisch-deutscher Tradition als 'Technologie der Macht' verstehen...

  13. Transkønnedes identitetsproblematikker i Danmark

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    Veng-Christensen, Louise Nordtorp; Bobak, Anders Victor Rønnemoes; Sørensen, Caroline Mygind; Lausch, Line Grønborg; Larsen, Cathrine; Boldemann, Camilla Funk

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    Gender identity is normally understood as binary: man or woman. Transgender people, however, transcends this binary gender discourse and thus find themselves abnormal and stigmatized. This study tries to answer the question of how transgender people put the binary understanding of gender to discussion and how this discussion impacts their options of expressing their true identity. Through methods of deduction and induction, the theories of Erving Goffman, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault...

  14. Rozpor a biomoc. Diskurzívna regulácuia zahaľovania moslimiek v Českej republike

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    Balážová, Lucia

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    The diploma thesis combines the theoretical concepts of postmodernism and biopower, that are subsequently applied to the particular issue of covering Muslim women living in the Czech Republic. This problem includes the religious, gender, media, social and philosophical level. Each of them is supported by key authors who are experts in this issue. Michel Foucault's concept of biopower, that covers both social and individual bodies through power discourse, interferes with the clothing, that gen...

  15. Power Matters: Foucault's "Pouvoir/Savoir" as a Conceptual Lens in Information Research and Practice

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    Olsson, Michael; Heizmann, Helena

    2015-01-01

    Introduction: This paper advocates Foucault's notion of pouvoir/savoir (power/knowledge) as a conceptual lens that information researchers might fruitfully use to develop a richer understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power. Methods: Three of the authors' earlier studies are employed to illustrate the use of this conceptual lens.…

  16. The cross flow turbine (Michell - Banki) as option for small hydroelectric power plants; A turbina de fluxo cruzado (Michell - Banki) como opcao para centrais hidraulicas de pequeno porte

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    Mello Junior, Antonio Goncalves de

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    Several types of hydraulic turbines can be used in small hydroelectric power plant, as Pelton, Francis, Turgo, Kaplan, Propeller, Banki, etc. In Brazil the more used are Francis and Kaplan followed by Pelton. The usage of the other types is almost unknown, mainly the Turgo turbine. The cross flow turbine, also known by the names of Michell-Banki, Banki, and Michell-Ossberger is defined as an action turbine that can be applicable to falls from 1 to 200 m and flows from 0,025 to 13 m{sup 3}/s. With the technical evolution mainly in the last two decades by traditional firms like Ossberger Turbinenfabrik and new firms like CINK, that turbine can reach diameters of rotors of 1,0 m with width of 2,6 m and to develop capacity up to 2,000 k W, with efficiency near 90%. The main evolutions are concentrated in modifications presented in the injector of the turbine by several manufacturers, and the use of new materials in the blades of the runner, shafts, bearings and the use of the draft tube. Case study shows the technical and economical implications using a cross flow turbine in comparison to a Francis turbine and a Kaplan. The conclusions will be reported after technical and economical viability analysis among the three types of turbines. (author)

  17. Ejercicios espirituales e intelectualismo en Epicteto

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    Rodrigo Sebastián Braicovich

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo central del presente trabajo consistirá en poner en cuestión la validez de la interpretación ofrecida por Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault y John Sellars de la noción de áskesis en Epicteto. Si bien dicho cuestionamiento ha sido sugerido ya por John Cooper, mi objetivo será mostrar en qué sentido específico los ‘ejercicios espirituales’ de Epicteto no constituyen (contra lo sugerido por Hadot, Foucault y Sellars otra cosa que procesos estrictamente cognitivos. Con este objetivo en mente recurriré al concepto de preconcepciones (prolépseis desarrollado por Epicteto, a fin de dotar de contenido a la distinción, ya presente en el estoicismo antiguo, entre asentimiento débil y asentimiento firme.

  18. Foucault on methadone: beyond biopower.

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    Keane, Helen

    2009-09-01

    This essay reviews four texts which critically analyse methadone maintenance therapy using Foucault as a key theoretical framework: [Friedman, J., & Alicea, M. (2001). Surviving heroin: Interviews with women in methadone clinics. Florida: University Press of Florida], [Bourgois, P. (2000). Disciplining addictions: The bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 24, 165-195], [Bull, M. (2008). Governing the heroin trade: From treaties to treatment. Ashgate: Aldershot], and [Fraser, S., & valentine, k. (2008). Substance & substitution: Methadone subjects in liberal societies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan]. Taken together these works demonstrate one trajectory in the development of critical drug studies over the past decade. While all four view MMT as a regulatory technology which aims to create productive and obedient subjects, their understandings of the power relations of the clinic are quite distinct. The first two texts emphasise the social control of drug users, the third, issues of governmentality and liberal political practice, while the fourth engages with ontological questions about substances themselves. Thus while Foucauldian analysis has become familiar in social studies of drugs and alcohol, new uses for its conceptual tools continue to emerge.

  19. Microfabricated high-bandpass foucault aperture for electron microscopy

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    Glaeser, Robert; Cambie, Rossana; Jin, Jian

    2014-08-26

    A variant of the Foucault (knife-edge) aperture is disclosed that is designed to provide single-sideband (SSB) contrast at low spatial frequencies but retain conventional double-sideband (DSB) contrast at high spatial frequencies in transmission electron microscopy. The aperture includes a plate with an inner open area, a support extending from the plate at an edge of the open area, a half-circle feature mounted on the support and located at the center of the aperture open area. The radius of the half-circle portion of reciprocal space that is blocked by the aperture can be varied to suit the needs of electron microscopy investigation. The aperture is fabricated from conductive material which is preferably non-oxidizing, such as gold, for example.

  20. Sujet de droit et sujet d’intérêt : Montesquieu lu par Foucault

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    Full Text Available Dans les cours au Collège de France réunis dans Naissance de la biopolitique, Foucault soutient qu’une science économico-juridique est rigoureusement impossible. Or cette thèse radicale mérite discussion, à partir d’un auteur trop souvent ignoré des historiens de la genèse de l’économie politique. Montesquieu, à sa façon, contribue à la constitution de ce savoir économico-juridique, susceptible de penser ensemble sujet d’intérêt et sujet de droit. L’esprit de cette étude ne sera pas de critiquer Foucault en montrant que Montesquieu ne « rentre » pas dans l’opposition de ses paradigmes, mais plutôt de tenter de mesurer l’originalité d’une pensée qui conçoit des échanges entre propriété et liberté qui ont pour effet d’unifier rationalité économique et rationalité juridique.

  1. The domestication of Foucault

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    2014-01-01

    Though Foucault was intrigued by the possibilities of radical social transformation, he resolutely resisted the idea that such transformation could escape the effects of power and expressed caution when it came to the question of revolution. In this article we argue that in one particularly influential line of development of Foucault’s work his exemplary caution has been exaggerated in a way that weakens the political aspirations of post-Foucaldian scholarship. The site of this reduction is a complex debate over the role of normativity in Foucaldian research, where it has been claimed that Foucault’s genealogical approach is unable to answer the question ‘Why fight?’ The terms of this debate (on the neo-Foucaldian side) are limited by a dominant though selective interpretation of Foucault’s analytics of power, where power is understood primarily in terms of government, rather than struggle. In response we suggest that if we reconfigure power-as-government to power-as-war, this adjusts the central concern. ‘Why fight?’ becomes replaced by the more immediate question, ‘How fight?’ Without denying the obvious benefits of cautious scholarly work, we argue that a reconfiguration of Foucault’s analytics of power might help Foucaldian research to transcend the self-imposed ethic of political quietism that currently dominates the field. PMID:26273130

  2. Robert Michels y las teorías elitista-competitivas de la democracia

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    Caparrós Valderrama, Rafael

    2008-01-01

    Robert Michel's main work is "Political parties. A Sociological Study on the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy", issued in 1911, which is an analysis on the internal organization evolving dynamics of the German Social-Democrat Party (SDP), to which the author was intensely attached for several years. The aim of this essay is hte sociological study of the leadership emergence, power psicology and the organizational oligarchical tendencies. In it all argumentation can be found on the ...

  3. E o que está fora da ordem do discurso escolar?

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    Josí Aparecida de Freitas

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    Full Text Available Pretendo, com este texto, estabelecer algumas relações entre o artigo "A ordem do discurso escolar", de Luís Henrique Sommer (2007 e a obra "A ordem do discurso" de Michel Foucault (1999. Trago do texto de Foucault alguns pressupostos que ele considera importantes para realizar seu trabalho de análise discursiva e que vão aparecer, de alguma forma, transportados - no trabalho de Sommer - para o âmbito escolar. Recorto, ainda, do texto de Sommer, um enunciado em que o autor afirma que “ensino, metodologia, didática, planejamento são conceitos interditados, estão fora da ordem do discurso escolar” (SOMMER, 2007, p. 63. Lanço algumas problematizações a partir desse enunciado, relacionando-o, em uma perspectiva pós-estruturalista, apoiada também em Foucault, a um “campo de significação” (SILVA, 2011, p. 123 caracterizado por conhecimentos considerados verdadeiros e conexões com relações de poder, ao qual se costuma chamar de currículo.

  4. Criticising with Foucault: Towards a Guiding Framework for Socio-Political Studies in Mathematics Education

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    Kollosche, David

    2016-01-01

    Socio-political studies in mathematics education often touch complex fields of interaction between education, mathematics and the political. In this paper I present a Foucault-based framework for socio-political studies in mathematics education which may guide research in that area. In order to show the potential of such a framework, I discuss the…

  5. Vida, poder, política: Foucault e a questão do liberalismo

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    Fernando Danner

    2017-10-01

    Full Text Available o problema do liberalismo e de suas condições de emergência surgiram, no pensamento de Foucault, no curso Nascimento da Biopolítica, ministrado nos anos de 1978 e 1979. Neste curso, Foucault demonstra que o liberalismo não deve ser entendido fundamentalmente não como uma teoria econômica ou jurídica, nem como uma ideologia, mas como uma racionalidade política, como uma prática refletida de governo. É no contexto do liberalismo que a biopolítica adquire toda sua especificidade. A preocupação dos Estados com a gestão da população obedece à intenção de consolidar a economia capitalista: a emergência de um Estado gestor e normalizador, a partir de fins do século XVIII, deve ser entendida como um momento no qual a racionalidade econômica, tal qual concebida pelo liberalismo, passa a determinar o âmbito político, a dinâmica social e os fenômenos próprios das populações (criminalidade, sexualidade, natalidade, educação etc..

  6. Reconsidering the role of power, punishment and discipline in South African schools

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    E. Venter

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available This article examines the role of discipline and punishment in South African schools and seeks to interrogate the underlying power relations that guide teaching and learning in South Africa. It deconstructs the pre-occupation with discipline, power and punishment in South African schools in terms of the theoretical framework provided by Michel Foucault in his work entitled “Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison” (1975 which was translated as “Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison”(1977. It was Foucault who reminded us that the modern school is based on Prussian military ideals of punctuality, discipline, neatness and submissiveness to authority. Foucault tends to see schooling as one side of “corriger”, which is to punish or to teach. Education as “correction” is therefore regarded as the antipode of authoritarian punishment. Foucault draws attention to the subtle tactics and constraints beneath the surface of proclaimed bourgeois freedom. It was found that in South African schools the problem of authoritarian punishment is still rife. From the readings of Foucault’s works suggestions are made for changes to the system and to teachers’ mental attitude in order to move to a more constructive way of maintaining power and discipline.

  7. Classroon demonstration: Foucault s currents explored by the computer hard disc (HD

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    Jorge Roberto Pimentel

    2008-09-01

    Full Text Available This paper making an experimental exploration of Foucault s currents (eddy currents through a rotor magnetically coupled to computer hard disc (HD that is no longer being used. The set-up allows to illustrate in a stimulating way electromagnetism classes in High Schools for mean of the qualitative observations of the currents which are created as consequence of the movement of an electric conductor in a region where a magnetic field exists.

  8. Discursos de enfermeiras sobre morte e morrer: vontade ou verdade? Discursos de enfermeras sobre la muerte y el morir: ¿Voluntad o verdad? Nurses' speeches on death and to die: truth or will?

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    Karen Schein da Silva

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Propomos olhar para a morte e o morrer como uma construção social, histórica e cultural. Assim, nos aproximamos dos Estudos Culturais para conhecer discursos de enfermeiras sobre o tema. O corpus da pesquisa são artigos de dois periódicos nacionais de enfermagem. Nas análises utilizamos ferramentas propostas por Michel Foucault que possibilitaram constituir quatro categorias: a morte silenciada e ocultada; travando uma luta contra a morte; a morte em cena: multiplicidade de facetas e a morte e os cuidados paliativos: mudança de paradigma. O estudo destaca o modo como as publicações operam na produção dos saberes sobre a morte e o morrer subjetivando as enfermeiras.Nos proponemos mirar la muerte y el morir como una construcción social, histórica y cultural. Así, nos aproximamos a los Estudios Culturales para conocer discursos de enfermeras sobre el tema. El corpus de la investigación son artículos de dos periódicos nacionales de enfermería. En nuestros análisis utilizamos herramientas propuestas por Michel Foucault que posibilitaran construir cuatro categorías: la muerte silenciada y ocultada; entablando una lucha contra la muerte; la muerte en escena: multiplicidad de facetas, y la muerte y los cuidados paliativos: cambio de paradigma. El estudio destaca el modo en que las publicaciones operan en la producción de los saberes sobre la muerte y el morir subjetivando a las enfermeras.We consider looking at the death and dying as a social, historical and cultural construction. Thus, in we approach them to the Cultural Studies to know nurses´ speeches on the subject. The research is periodic articles of two national ones of nursing. In the analyses we use tools proposals for Michel Foucault that they make possible to constitute four categories: the silenced and occulted death; stopping one it fights against the death; the death in scene: multiplicity of faces and the palliative death and cares: paradigm change. The study

  9. Miks meile vaja maastikuarhitektuuri? = Why do we need landscape architecture? / Reinhard Micheller, Günther Schalk, Katrin Koov

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    EKA arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise osakonna III kursuse 2009-2012 aastail erialase projekteerimise ülesande raames on vestlusringis maastikuarhitektuurse osa juhendajad Reinhard Micheller ja Günther Schalk (michellerundschalk, München) ning Katrin Koov (KAVAKAVA, EKA maastikuarhitektuuri õppekava juht)

  10. Differential phase microscope and micro-tomography with a Foucault knife-edge scanning filter

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    Watanabe, N.; Hashizume, J.; Goto, M.; Yamaguchi, M.; Tsujimura, T.; Aoki, S.

    2013-10-01

    An x-ray differential phase microscope with a Foucault knife-edge scanning filter was set up at the bending magnet source BL3C, Photon Factory. A reconstructed phase profile from the differential phase image of an aluminium wire at 5.36 keV was fairly good agreement with the numerical simulation. Phase tomography of a biological specimen, such as an Artemia cyst, could be successfully demonstrated.

  11. The Theatrics of Orientalism

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    Kirli, Tayfun; Hviid, Rasmus Jørgensen

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    This research project investigates into Danish media eventually being orientalist in its core exercise of discourse on the events regarding the Arab Spring. Through an automated content analysis and a following critical discourse analysis we limit the scope of our research to the years on 2011-2013. The chosen newspaper is Politken. The theoretical framework consisted of Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Norman Fairclough, Teun Van Dijk and Noam Chomsky to name a few, these are discussed in the l...

  12. Dos casos de intersexualidad en el cine argentino

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    Santiago Peidro

    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza los filmes argentinos XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007 y El último verano de la boyita (Julia Solomonoff, 2009 para indagar sobre el modo en el que la intersexualidad puede ser leída a partir de las conceptualizaciones de anatomopolítica individual y regulaciones poblacionales que Michel Foucault describe, principalmente en sus cursos Los anormales, Defender la sociedad y en su texto, Historia de la sexualidad.

  13. Heterotopia and structuralism

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    Arun Saldanha

    2008-01-01

    The concept of heterotopia was introduced and immediately abandoned by Michel Foucault in 1966 – 67, but it quickly diffused across human geography, urban theory, and cultural studies during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the deserved impact of Foucault’s overall work on these fields, there are some conceptual problems with the heterotopia concept. While the desire for a single term to probe spatial difference is understandable, the author takes issue with the kind of space envisioned in heteroto...

  14. Reason and madness in the structure of the Cartesian cogito. Three interpretations of Rene Descartes' Meditation

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    Karachevtseva Larysа Mykolaivna

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available The article analyses the polemics between Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida that took place in the sixties of the 20th century. This polemics was dedicated to the elucidation of the role of reason and madness within Cartesian radical doubt – that thought experiment maintained the formula ego cogito ergo sum. The article also examines Emmanuel Levinas's interpretation of Descartes' idea of the infinite. It is shown that the idea of the infinite constitutes cogito.

  15. Inclusion as Domination of Other by Himself/Herself

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    Alfredo Veiga-Neto

    2013-05-01

    Full Text Available From the comprehension of the concepts of: biopolitics, governmental, and paranormal/abnormal, in the way they were developed by Michel Foucault, this article analyses the current policies and practices of social inclusion, as devices implied in an operation of folding of other by himself/herself. Exploring the polysemy of the pair inclusion / exclusion, it is argued that the imperative of inclusion is installed according to bio-politics and at the service of neoliberalism.

  16. Making sense of others: The use of biographical statements in Rosaura a las Diez

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    Teófilo Espada-Brignoni

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    Full Text Available Marco Denevi’s Rosaura a las Diez is a novel that explores the complex relationships between law, science, and everyday life. These fields of human experience play a fundamental role in the construction of the social categories and biographical statements individuals use to understand their world. This article draws from the works of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman to analyse the way in which Denevi explores individuals making sense of themselves and others.

  17. Note: A 1-m Foucault pendulum rolling on a ball

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    Salva, H. R.; Benavides, R. E.; Venturino, J. A.; Cuscueta, D. J.; Ghilarducci, A. A.

    2013-10-01

    We have built a short Foucault pendulum of 1-m length. The aim of this work was to increase the sensitivity to elliptical trajectories from other longer pendula. The design was a semi-rigid pendulum that rolls over a small ball. The measurements of the movements (azimuth and elliptical trajectory) were done by an optical method. The resulting pendulum works in a medium satisfactory way due to problems of the correct choice of the mass of the bob together with the diameter of the supporting ball. It is also important to keep the rolling surface very clean.

  18. Foucault, Confucius and the In-Service Learning of Experienced Teachers in an Era of Managerialism

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    Huang, Hua

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    By drawing on Foucault's theory of subjectification, this study presents a case study of two experienced teachers' in-service learning in the managerialist climate of Macau. The results indicate that the prevailing policies and administrative strategies on in-service learning served as the apparatus of managerialism working on teachers and…

  19. Foucault e a questão do quem somos nós?

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    Full Text Available O artigo procura mostrar que a evolução da noção de modernidade no pensamento de Foucault (que num primeiro momento parte da Crítica da razão pura, e em seguida se inspira no texto O que é ilustração, também de Kant, entendido como inaugural de uma atitude de diagnóstico do presente é indissociável de seu projeto teórico.

  20. UMA ANÁLISE ECONÔMICO-FINANCEIRA DO CAPITAL DE GIRO DA EMPRESA ALFA S/A SEGUNDO O MODELO DE MICHEL FLEURIET

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    Esse artigo teve como objetivo analisar a estrutura e situação econômico-financeira do capital de giro de uma empresa S/A, sob a óptica do modelo de Michel Fleuriet, que propicia uma análise dinâmica financeira. Com a reclassificação das contas, identificou-se três variáveis necessárias pelo modelo de Michel Fleuriet: necessidade de capital de giro (NCG), capital de giro (CDG) e saldo de tesouraria (ST). A pesquisa foi realizada nas demonstrações financeiras padronizadas (DFP) referentes aos ...

  1. The Politics of Health as a School-Sponsored Ethic: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Unhealthy Employee

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    Vander Schee, Carolyn

    2008-01-01

    This article describes the emergence of health policies targeted at the unhealthy school employee by examining how these are manifest in a Nevada school district. The analysis draws on the work of Foucault, specifically his writings on governmentality. The purpose of this critical appraisal is to problematize school-sponsored health policies by…

  2. Capillary Discourses, Fissure Points, and Tacitly Confessing the Self: Foucault's Later Work and Educational Research

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    Worthman, Christopher; Troiano, Beverly

    2016-01-01

    This article draws on Foucault's later work to consider in an exploratory but specific way how that work can inform educational research. It introduces the concepts of "capillary discourses" and "fissure points" to show, by way of example, how a regime of truth such as neoliberalism shapes lifelong learning theory, the pedagogy…

  3. Foucault's method for measuring the speed of light with modern apparatus

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    Vörös, Zoltán; Weihs, Gregor

    2015-05-01

    In this paper, we introduce two simple and inexpensive, yet quite accurate versions of the well-known Foucault method for measuring the speed of light. In a compact footprint of just 20 cm by 270 cm with readily available laboratory items, a rotating mirror taken from a laser printer, and a webcam, we obtained c=296\\720+/- 3000 km s-1, and c=302\\295+/- 3000 km s-1, respectively, both within less than a per cent of the defined value. The experiment also prepares students for extracting data through image processing.

  4. The Michel parameter for the decay τ→eνanti ν

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    Janssen, H.; Koenig, A.C.; Metzger, W.J.; Reidenbach, M.; Schotanus, J.; Walle, R.T. van de; Walk, W.; Antreasyan, D.; Irion, J.; McBride, P.; Strauch, K.; Bartels, H.W.; Bienlein, J.K.; Brockmueller, K.; Kloiber, T.; Koch, W.; Marsiske, H.; Meyer, H.; Skwarnicki, T.; Trost, H.J.; Voigt, A.; Wachs, K.; Zschorsch, P.; Besset, D.; Cabenda, R.; Cowan, R.; Bieler, C.; Graaf, K.; Heinsius, F.H.; Kiel, T.; Krueger, S.; Lekebusch, R.; Maschmann, W.; Nernst, R.; Sievers, D.; Stock, V.; Strohbusch, U.; Bloom, E.D.; Clare, R.; Cooper, S.; Fairfield, K.; Fridman, A.; Gaiser, J.; Gelphman, D.; Godfrey, G.; Hofstadter, R.; Kirkbride, I.; Lee, R.; Leffler, S.; Litke, A.M.; Lockman, W.; Lowe, S.; Niczyporuk, B.; Pollock, B.; Schwarz, A.; Tompkins, J.; Van Uitert, B.; Wacker, K.; Brock, I.; Engler, A.; Kraemer, R.W.; Marlow, D.; Messing, F.; Prindle, D.; Renger, B.; Rippich, C.; Vogel, H.; Cavalli-Sforza, M.; Coyne, D.; Folger, G.; Glaser, G.; Kobel, M.; Lurz, B.; Schuette, J.; Volland, U.; Wegener, H.; Jakubowski, Z.; Muryn, B.; Nowak, G.; Keh, S.; Kilian, H.; Koenigsmann, K.; Scheer, M.; Schmitt, P.; Peck, C.; Porter, F.C.; Ratoff, P.; Williams, D.A.; Karch, K.; Heimlich, F.H.

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    The Crystal Ball detector at the Doris II storage ring at DESY has been used to study the electron energy spectrum of the decay τ→eνanti ν. In the standard model the Lorentz structure of the decay matrix element is of the well known V-A type, resulting in a Michel parameter of ρ=0.75. Our spectrum is found to be consistent with this value. A fit yields the value of 0.64±0.06±0.07. (orig.)

  5. Os sintomas do discurso: sujeito, corpo e clínica na mídia

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    Nilton Milanez

    2008-09-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho discute a posição do sujeito diante das práticas médicas contemporâneas, observadas e analisadas por meio da seleção de alguns enunciados da revista de divulgação científica Superinteressante, sob a luz da análise do discurso desenvolvida no Brasil, fundamentada nos postulados de Michel Foucault. O sujeito, o corpo e a clínica serão, portanto, os três eixos que se evidenciarão na compreensão dos mecanismos de construção da verdade no discurso midiático. Ou seja, uma história cotidiana e seu porvir. Palavras-chave: Sujeito; corpo; clínica; mídia; discurso. ABSTRACT This paper discusses the position of the subject when facing contemporary medical practices. The analysis focuses on a selection of articles from popular-science magazine Superinteressante, based on the principles of discourse analysis developed in Brazil, and supported by the postulates of Michel Foucault. The subject, the body and the clinic, therefore, will be the three axes we could highlight in order to understand the truth building mechanisms within media discourse. In other words, we intend to present a quotidian history and its future. Keywords: Subject; body; clinic; media; discourse.

  6. La violencia humana: ¿Qué hemos aprendido? Human violence: What have we learned?

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    Enrique Vega Fernández

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo pretende aportar algunas reflexiones que permitan aproximarse al gran interrogante de por qué existen las guerras y siguen existiendo en el mundo de nuestros días. A través del concepto de cratotropismo, basado en la concepción de afán de dominio de Alfred Adler. Y de la traída: competencia ideológica o cultural, presión-resistencia económica, conflicto armado como último recurso, como modos de los enfrentamientos crato-eleuterotrópicos, basada en la concepción de la función moduladora del saber por los poderes sociales de Michel Foucault y en concepto marxista de propiedad.The present work aims at inducing reflections upon how to approach the big question as why wars exist, and continue to exist, in the world we live in today. We proceed via the concept of cratotropism, based on Alfred Adler's conception of the thirst for power. And on the triad: ideological or cultural competition, financial pressure/resistance, and armed conflict as a last resource, as a means of confronting problems of a crato-eleuterotropic nature, and based on the conception of the modulating function of human knowledge in respect of Michel Foucault's "social powers" and the Marxist concept of property.

  7. Política(s linguística(s e questões de poder

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    Cristine Gorski Severo

    2013-08-01

    Full Text Available O texto apresenta e discute os conceitos de poder e de política no campo de saber intitulado “Política Linguística”. Para tanto, inicialmente apresenta e discute a heterogeneidade e complexidade do campo, discorrendo sobre os conceitos de Política e Planejamento Linguísticos. Em seguida, apresenta os trabalhos genealógicos do filósofo francês Michel Foucault acerca da relação entre poder, saber e política. Para fins de discussão, o artigo apresenta uma série de casos, tanto reais como possíveis, de aplicação e intervenção do campo de Política Linguística, com vistas tanto a discutir a noção de poder em conceitos e metodologias utilizadas pela área de saber, como a expandir o lócus de intervenção da disciplina a partir de possíveis contribuições de Michel Foucault sobre a dinâmica das relações de poder aplicada aos estudos das relações entre as línguas, as línguas e os sujeitos, as línguas e a tecnologia, e as línguas e uma dada geopolítica.

  8. Exclusive language: The tool to empower and create identity

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    Ananda Geyser-Fouche

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available This article used some postmodern literary theories of philosophers such as Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva to scrutinise a selection of texts from the post-exilic period with regard to the exclusive language employed in these texts. Lyotard�s insights relate to and complement Foucault�s concept of �counter-memory�. Foucault also focuses on the network of discursive powers that operate behind texts and reproduce them, arguing that it is important to have a look from behind so as to see which voices were silenced by the specific powers behind texts. The author briefly looked at different post-exilic texts within identity-finding contexts, focusing especially on Chronicles and a few Qumran texts, to examine the way in which they used language to create identity and to empower the community in their different contexts. It is generally accepted that both the author(s of 1 & 2 Chronicles and the Qumran community used texts selectively, with their own nuances, omissions and additions. This study scrutinised the way the author(s of Chronicles and the Qumran community used documents selectively, focusing on the way in which they used exclusive language. It is clear that all communities used such language in certain circumstances to strengthen a certain group�s identity, to empower them and to legitimise this group�s conduct, behaviour and claims � and thereby exclude other groups.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Based on postmodern literary theories, this article compares the exclusive language used in Chronicles and in the texts of the Qumran community, pointing to the practice of creating identity and empowering through discourse. In conclusion, the article reflects on what is necessary in a South African context, post-1994, to be a truly democratic country.Keywords: Exclusive language; inclusive; Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu; Derrida

  9. STS-93 M.S. Michel Tognini in white room

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    1999-01-01

    STS-93 Mission Specialist Michel Tognini of France is checked out by white room closeout crew members before entering the orbiter Columbia. Tognini is with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The white room is an environmental chamber at the end of the orbiter access arm that provides entry to the orbiter crew compartment. STS-93 is a five-day mission primarily to release the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which will allow scientists from around the world to study some of the most distant, powerful and dynamic objects in the universe. After Space Shuttle Columbia's July 20 and 22 launch attempts were scrubbed, the launch was again rescheduled for Friday, July 23, at 12:24 a.m. EDT. The target landing date is July 27 at 11:20 p.m. EDT.

  10. Geometry, analysis and probability in honor of Jean-Michel Bismut

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    Hofer, Helmut; Labourie, François; Jan, Yves; Ma, Xiaonan; Zhang, Weiping

    2017-01-01

    This volume presents original research articles and extended surveys related to the mathematical interest and work of Jean-Michel Bismut. His outstanding contributions to probability theory and global analysis on manifolds have had a profound impact on several branches of mathematics in the areas of control theory, mathematical physics and arithmetic geometry. Contributions by: K. Behrend N. Bergeron S. K. Donaldson J. Dubédat B. Duplantier G. Faltings E. Getzler G. Kings R. Mazzeo J. Millson C. Moeglin W. Müller R. Rhodes D. Rössler S. Sheffield A. Teleman G. Tian K-I. Yoshikawa H. Weiss W. Werner The collection is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in these fields.

  11. Critical Discourse Analysis. The Elaboration of a Problem Oriented Discourse Analytic Approach After Foucault

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    Rainer Diaz-Bone

    2006-05-01

    Full Text Available Abstract: The German discourse researcher Siegfried JÄGER from Duisburg is the first to have published a German-language book about the methodology of discourse analysis after FOUCAULT. JÄGER integrates in his work the discourse analytic work of Jürgen LINK as well as the interdisciplinary discussion carried on in the discourse analytic journal "kultuRRevolution" (Journal for Applied Discourse Analysis. JÄGER and his co-workers were associated with the Duisburger Institute for Language Research and Social Research (DISS, see http://www.diss-duisburg.de/ for 20 years, developing discourse theory and the methodology of discourse analysis. The interview was done via e-mail. It depicts the discourse analytic approach of JÄGER and his co-workers following the works of FOUCAULT and LINK. The interview reconstructs JÄGERs vita and his academic career. Further topics of the interview are the agenda of JÄGERs discourse studies, methodological considerations, the (problematic relationship between FOUCAULDian discourse analysis and (discourses, linguistics, styles and organization of research and questions concerning applied discourse analytic research as a form of critical intervention. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0603219

  12. Marx and Foucault: Subjectivity, Employability and the Crisis of Youth Unemployment in the Great Global Recession

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    Peters, Michael A.; Besley, Tina

    2013-01-01

    This article explores the different approaches taken to the concepts of work or labour by Marx and Foucault, examining in particular the question of subjectivity in relation to youth unemployment and the current crisis of youth unemployment as part of the aftermath of the global recession of 2008.

  13. The inverted Ion mirror: the path to truth-telling in the story of Padre Justino in Crônica da casa assassinada

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    Patrícia Chanely Silva Ricarte

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Based on the ideas of Michel Foucault in the course The Government of Self and Others, I examine in this article the route of parrhesia, or truth-telling, attributed to the narrator Padre Justino in the five chapters of the novel Crônica da casa assassi­nada, by Lúcio Cardoso. From this perspective, my analysis focuses on two types of parrhesia, very similar to those from the play Ion, by Euripides identified and classi­fied by Foucault as oracular and confessional. While such discourses in Ion have the function of creating a genealogy for the city of Athenas, in Crônica da casa assassi­nada the acts of parrhesia by Padre Justino and Ana Meneses have, as a whole, the opposite function, serving for the abolition of a family tradition.

  14. Experimental and numerical examination of eddy (Foucault) currents in rotating micro-coils: Generation of heat and its impact on sample temperature

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    Aguiar, Pedro M.; Jacquinot, Jacques-François; Sakellariou, Dimitris

    2009-09-01

    The application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to systems of limited quantity has stimulated the use of micro-coils (diameter Foucault (eddy) currents, which generate heat. We report the first data acquired with a 4 mm MACS system and spinning up to 10 kHz. The need to spin faster necessitates improved methods to control heating. We propose an approximate solution to calculate the power losses (heat) from the eddy currents for a solenoidal coil, in order to provide insight into the functional dependencies of Foucault currents. Experimental tests of the dependencies reveal conditions which result in reduced sample heating and negligible temperature distributions over the sample volume.

  15. Experimental and numerical examination of eddy (Foucault) currents in rotating micro-coils: Generation of heat and its impact on sample temperature.

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    Aguiar, Pedro M; Jacquinot, Jacques-François; Sakellariou, Dimitris

    2009-09-01

    The application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to systems of limited quantity has stimulated the use of micro-coils (diameter Foucault (eddy) currents, which generate heat. We report the first data acquired with a 4mm MACS system and spinning up to 10kHz. The need to spin faster necessitates improved methods to control heating. We propose an approximate solution to calculate the power losses (heat) from the eddy currents for a solenoidal coil, in order to provide insight into the functional dependencies of Foucault currents. Experimental tests of the dependencies reveal conditions which result in reduced sample heating and negligible temperature distributions over the sample volume.

  16. ドイツ観念論と現代の教育状況 -主にフィヒテとシェリングの立論に立脚しつつ-

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    池田, 全之; IKEDA, Takeyuki

    2000-01-01

    In this paper I investigate mainly the thought of German Idealism (especially, that of]. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling) from the viewpoint of two questions, 'Why do children feel stifling in their dailyschool life ?' and 'Why can't people but break social rules, even if they know their deeds themselves aren't permitted?' In order to consider the former question, I refer to the Michel Foucault's analysis of the history of apperance of modern prison. Interpreting the documents relating to it...

  17. Networks and Subjectivity in Contemporary French Philosophy - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.35en

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    André Parente

    2007-06-01

    Full Text Available This article presents three different perspectives on networks in contemporary French philosophy, in particular the thinking of Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour. What we call transformative networks, in line with Bruno Latour, are socio-technical mediations which are altering the conditions of the experience and producing new forms of subjectivity. Networks are empirical figures of the ontology of the present, figures which permit us to think about the field of communication as a contemporary structural problem.

  18. The publics and the government of life in social networks

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    Saulo Mota

    2012-01-01

    The goal of this study is an analysis of the relationship between the publics, analyzed by Gabriel Tarde and the government of practices of life, studied by Michel Foucault in the context of social networks, making a comparison between the practices of this kind of social grouping in the early twentieth century with its update in the social networks context in the twenty-first century. Initially we investigate the relationship between a private company with its public, identifying the salient...

  19. Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986

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    Filimon Eliza Claudia

    2014-03-01

    Full Text Available Based on a framework consisting of postmodern theories of heterotopias, spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality and postmodern speed, this paper seeks to identify cinematic features in the works of the American director David Lynch, which exemplify time and space in postmodernism. Michel Foucault's theory of space will trigger the whole problematic of the time-space relation. This is followed by a discussion of Fredric Jameson's concepts of spatial pastiche and schizophrenic temporality and of the involute interaction between the two

  20. Notes on the modes of regulation in virtual environments for education

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    Nei Antonio Nunes; André Luis da Silva Leite

    2015-01-01

    In this paper, we discuss some aspects that involve the presence of new technologies in education, with a focus on regulation modes in distance learning environments. We start from the idea that the current development and spread of virtual education do not guarantee any intrinsic value that exempts to be surveyed and thus entered into a broad debate aimed at reflecting on the impact of the inclusion of new technologies in the Brazilian society. According to Michel Foucault's analyses referen...

  1. Preconceito sexual: olhares de alunos de psicologia

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    Silva, Valdeci Gonçalves da

    2015-01-01

    Esta pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa analítica, teve como objetivo verificar o Preconceito Sexual no universo acadêmico da psicologia de Portugal-PT e do Brasil- BR, com uma amostra de 20 estudantes. Seu referencial teórico consistiu nos conceitos de Gregory M. Herek, Michel Foucault, postulados de Sigmund Freud e outros. Foram utilizados um Questionário sociodemográfico, uma Entrevista semiestruturada e um Teste de personalidade H-T-P. Os resultados tiveram como base o métod...

  2. Filho da Rua: jornalismo etnográfico ou reportagem de ideias?

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    Seibt, Taís; Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, RS

    2013-01-01

    This paper aims to discuss the newspaperreport “Filho da Rua” (son of the street) published in June 2012 by the newspaper Zero Hora, Rio Grandedo Sul, and Esso Prize winner for Reporting in 2012, using the concepts of “ideas journalism”, from Michel Foucault, and “ethnographic journalism”, from Érik Neveu. The intent is to interpret the newspaper report with the authors’ proposal, to include these concepts as tools of criticism of journalistic practices.Key words: ideas report, ethnographic j...

  3. El poder como genealogía de la identidad de género

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    Eva María Lucumí Moreno

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo comunica de los resultados del trabajo investigativo de las autoras para su maestría. El escrito hace una aproximación a los postulados sobre poder y sujeto en Michel Foucault y género, sexo y subjetividad en Judith Butler. Finalmente, los lectores encontrarán una propuesta de comprensión del proceso de subjetivación generizada desde la teoría de los dos autores post estructuralistas.

  4. Monstres, légendes et hérauts : quelles pistes face à la tératogenèse documentaire ?

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    Le Deuff , Olivier

    2007-01-01

    http://www.marsouin.org/article.php3?id_article=141; Notre propos est de montrer que nous sommes confrontés à une tératogénèse documentaire, conséquence des mutations du document numérique. En nous appuyant sur des pistes abordées par Michel Foucault pour décrire cette situation, nous tentons de montrer quelles sont les solutions pour y faire face en plaidant pour une culture de l'information incluant une dimension technique.

  5. Tid, Straf og Eksistens

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    Sigurðardóttir, Arna Kristín; Høy, Emma Lykke; Slidsborg, Benjamin Alexander; Salinas, Sofie Ahrens; Rasmussen, Malthe Kildegaard; Oines Voigt, Pi; Sørensen, Skov; Elisabet, Nana

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    This study examines which effect modern, Danish prisons have on prisoners understanding of time, punishment and existence. This project is based on two interviews and Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger. The first interviewee was a retired prison officer who used to work at Vestre Fængsel. The second one is a former prisoner who was in prison for three years. These two qualitative interviews are used to give an understanding on Danish prisons and the effect they have on prisoners. In order t...

  6. Orientalism in Hollywood

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    Kühn, Lena; Reininger Ardilsøe, Lena; Bayona, Arce; Mar, Susana Del; Kitchen, Nikolaj Howard; Hvid, Amanda Boie

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    This project examines the way in which parts of the Middle East are represented in two major American motion pictures from the 1960's, namely Cleopatra and Lawrence of Arabia. The project paper contains a formal and a comparative investigation of a body of significant scenes from these two films. The theoretical frame of this examination is built on Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Stuart Hall’s ideas. The theoretical and analytical insights will be connected in the course of this project, le...

  7. When we stay alone: Resist in uncertainty. Emancipation and empowerment practices

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    Ester Jordana Lluch

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available In view of the uncertainty that surrounds us, there appears the need to resist in the university without any diagnosis of the present. For it, we can depart from the critiques to two of the features that have been characterized the modern university: autonomy and emancipation. We will to try to glimpse what practices of resistance could take place here and now, re-elaborating critically both principles using the reflections of Jacques Rancière and Michel Foucault

  8. Marguerite Yourcenar’s Le Labyrinthe du Monde: autobiography of an absent self?

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    E. Snyman

    2000-04-01

    Full Text Available Marguerite Yourcenar’s autobiography Le Labyrinthe du monde surprised readers by its lack of self-representation and by being mainly a lengthy exploration of the genealogy of her ancestors. This article pursues the hypothesis that although Yourcenar is considered an autonomous creator, uninfluenced by the Parisian avant-garde of the sixties and seventies, certain aspects of her practice of self-representation draw on a new approach to historiography of which Michel Foucault, for example, was one of the earliest practitioners.

  9. A função autor e a crônica esportiva no Brasil: representações da Copa do Mundo em alguns jornais paulistas e cariocas

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    Marques, José Carlos [UNESP

    2010-01-01

    From the 1990s, Brazilian newspapers began to refer to the convening of different personalities to comment on the World Cup soccer in their sports pages. This article seeks to examine this phenomenon under the notion that the French philosopher Michel Foucault called the “author function” - one that establishes the existence, circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a specific audience. A partir da década de 1990, os jornais brasileiros passaram a recorrer à convocação de d...

  10. Entre théâtre, opéra et roman: le cas de Michel Tremblay // Between theatre, opera and novel: The case of Michel Tremblay

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    Petr Kyloušek

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available In the frame of Quebec literature, Michel Tremblay’s poetics is an attempt to transfiguration of plebeian axiology in high literature, universal in scope. The slang of the Montreal periphery (so called joual and its speakers, which are mostly marginal characters, are highlighted by the application of the principles of religious drama, Greek tragedy and opera as the constituent parts of Tremblay’s theater and prose. To identify and illustrate these principles at different structural levels, the paper analyses the novels Le Premier Quartier de la lune (1989, Le cahier noir (2003, La Traversée de la ville (2008 and the drama Sainte Carmen de la Main (1976.

  11. A Measurement of the Michel Parameters in Leptonic Decays of the Tau

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    We have measured the spectral shape Michel parameters {rho} and {eta} using leptonic decays of the {tau} , recorded by the CLEO II detector. Assuming e-{mu} universality in the vectorlike couplings, we find {rho}{sub e{mu}}=0.735{plus_minus}0.013{plus_minus}0.008 and {eta}{sub e{mu}}=-0.015{plus_minus}0.061{plus_minus}0.062 , where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. We also present measurements for the parameters for e and {mu} final states separately. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

  12. Tangenciando o gesto autobiográfico em Michel Leiris e Herberto Helder

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    Carolina Anglada de Rezende

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available In position of the extensive discussion about the autobiography and its questioned status as a literary genre, this article aims to discuss the comparative gesture and his autobiographical traces in the works of two writers who, each in his own way, break the protocol associated with the writings of the self. In the foreground, it is the work A idade viril of Michel Leiris, in which writing, confession, memories and dreams merge, which will be compared to Photomaton & Vox, meeting of essays, reviews, poems and reports of the portuguese poet Herbert Helder.

  13. Lire Soumission entre Charlie Hebdo et le Bataclan : l'islamisation selon Michel Houellebecq : provocation (suite)/

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    Almeida, José Domingues de

    2015-01-01

    Cet article vise une lecture critique du roman Soumission (2015) de Michel Houellebecq dans la foulée des attentats parisiens, en essayant de détecter les lignes de continuité et de rupture par rapport aux procédés narratifs employés et aux thématiques présentes dans les romans précédents.

  14. “MODERNLİĞİN ARKA YÜZÜ” OLARAK GÜNDELİK HAYAT: AŞKI MEMNU (DAILY LIFE AS "THE REVERSE SIDE OF MODERNITY": ASK-I MEMNU

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    Zehra YİĞİT

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available It is stated that the word "daily" includes the strategies of capitalist system in the post- modern capitalist societies. Mass media has an important role in spreading of the mindset. This study aims to provide a critique of daily life as an ideological instrument through an analysis of the series. The sample of the study is Aşk-ı Memnu (Hilal Saral-2008/2010. It is aimed to reveal the daily life practices in the series narration through sociological criticism. The arguments of Neo-Marxist theorists Henri Léfebvre, Michel de Certeau ve Michel Foucault about daily life constitutes the theoretical basis. Aşk-ı Memnu reflects the daily life practice of lower and upper classes as a meta; on the other hand, it contributes to capitalism by converting even itself into an object for consumption.

  15. Soft X-ray Foucault test: A path to diffraction-limited imaging

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    Ray-Chaudhuri, A. K.; Ng, W.; Liang, S.; Cerrina, F.

    1994-08-01

    We present the development of a soft X-ray Foucault test capable of characterizing the imaging properties of a soft X-ray optical system at its operational wavelength and its operational configuration. This optical test enables direct visual inspection of imaging aberrations and provides real-time feedback for the alignment of high resolution soft X-ray optical systems. A first application of this optical test was carried out on a Mo-Si multilayer-coated Schwarzschild objective as part of the MAXIMUM project. Results from the alignment procedure are presented as well as the possibility for testing in the hard X-ray regime.

  16. O sonho da interpretação na arqueologia de Foucault = The dream of interpretation in Foucault’s archeology

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    Prado, Tomás Mendonça da Silva

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    Full Text Available Este artigo procura demonstrar as bases no pensamento de Foucault que o levaram a elaborar o conceito de arqueologia e, além disso, busca reconhecer os seus limites. Para isso, procuramos apresentar as principais interlocuções teóricas do filósofo no início de suas investigações e as constatações que, mais tarde, geraram a necessidade de reelaborar tal conceito. Entre as conclusões deste estudo, destacamos a sugestão de que a concepção alegórica de linguagem sustentada naquele período é formalmente semelhante à estrutura do pensamento metafísico e, como tal, precisou ser abandonada por Foucault como tentativa de encontrar uma forma original de reflexão filosófica

  17. Tribute by the Algerian Geologists to Professor Michel Durand-Delga (1923-2012). The geological work of Michel Durand-Delga in Algeria

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    Belhai, D.; Ouabadi, A.

    2016-10-01

    Michel Durand-Delga made a success of an outstanding career in geology. His route might be considered as one of a pioneer of a new kind. He set a meticulous rhythm in this discipline of the Earth sciences, particularly in Algeria, the country he loved for its geology, landscapes and population. The first of his fructuous works was published in 1948 on the geology of the Petite Kabylie and he continued, for most his life, to work very closely on this zone which he characterized, in a definitive way, as different from the African continent with at first structural then stratigraphical evidence. He highlighted the Kabylian thrust where the northern domain (internal, also called Kabyle) overlaps a southern domain (external or African). All the geological information that came later either produced by him or later by his students and opponents supported this great hypothesis which today has become a reliable paradigm. (Author)

  18. Rotation of the swing plane of Foucault's pendulum and Thomas spin precession: two sides of one coin

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    Krivoruchenko, Mikhail I

    2009-01-01

    Using elementary geometric tools, we apply essentially the same methods to derive expressions for the rotation angle of the swing plane of Foucault's pendulum and the rotation angle of the spin of a relativistic particle moving in a circular orbit (the Thomas precession effect). (methodological notes)

  19. Introduction to Louis Michel's lattice geometry through group action

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    Zhilinskii, Boris

    2015-01-01

    Group action analysis developed and applied mainly by Louis Michel to the study of N-dimensional periodic lattices is the central subject of the book. Different basic mathematical tools currently used for the description of lattice geometry are introduced and illustrated through applications to crystal structures in two- and three-dimensional space, to abstract multi-dimensional lattices and to lattices associated with integrable dynamical systems. Starting from general Delone sets the authors turn to different symmetry and topological classifications including explicit construction of orbifolds for two- and three-dimensional point and space groups. Voronoï and Delone cells together with positive quadratic forms and lattice description by root systems are introduced to demonstrate alternative approaches to lattice geometry study. Zonotopes and zonohedral families of 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-dimensional lattices are explicitly visualized using graph theory approach. Along with crystallographic applications, qualitative ...

  20. GOVERNAMENTALIDADES NEOLIBERAIS E DISPOSITIVOS DE SEGURANÇA

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    Flávia Cristina Silveira Lemos

    2015-08-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo visa a realizar um debate teórico por meio das análises de Michel Foucault e de Robert Castel, entre outros, a respeito dos mecanismos de segurança e das estratégias de governamentalidade neoliberal, na sociedade contemporânea. Os cursos Em defesa da sociedade, Segurança, território e população e Nascimento da Biopolítica, de Foucault, inauguraram uma discussão relevante a respeito dos racismos de Estado e de sociedade, de seus paradoxos, nas democracias, e de seus efeitos a partir da emergência do neoliberalismo norte-americano e alemão, após a II Guerra Mundial, que foram difundidos em outros países, sobretudo na década de noventa do século XX, com especificidades em cada país, mas com pontos de conexão que nos permitem traçar um diagrama da sociedade de segurança e de como ela opera por táticas de governo das condutas, também denominadas governamentalidades, por Foucault.