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Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory
This deep presence of Foucault’s influence across contemporary theoretical landscapes signals a need for self-reflectiveness that has largely (though not entirely) been missing in contemporary uses of Foucault. While scholarship in a Foucauldian vein is obviously alive and well, scholarship … Continue reading
Michel Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures on the Will to Know remind us that Michel Foucault’s work only ever had one object: truth. Discipline and Punish completed an investigation of the role of juridical forms in the formation of truth-telling, the preparatory groundwork for which … Continue reading
Foucault Plays Habermas: An Alternative Philosophical Underpinning for Critical Systems Thinking
Critical Systems Thinking (CST) has traditionally sought its philosophical underpinning in the work of German theorist Jurgen Habermas. We suggest that CST need not necessarily be informed by Habermas, and present the thought of Michel Foucault as one possible alternative. … Continue reading
Structuralism, post-structuralism, neo-liberalism: assessing Foucault’s legacy
This article traces Foucault’s distinctive commitment to ‘post-structuralism’ through tracing the affinities and departures from structuralism. It is argued that under the infuence of Nietzsche, Foucault’s approach marks a distinct break with structuralism in several crucial respects. What results is … Continue reading
A Comparison of Foucauld’ and Habermas’ Concepts of Discourse
The concept of discourse is of high importance for non-positivist research in information systems. At the same time there are different concepts of discourse that are used simultaneously and often without clear recognition what their choice entails. This paper therefore aims to … Continue reading
The Nature of Capital: Marx after Foucault
The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault overturns the received wisdom on the incompatibility of the thought of Marx and Foucault to develop an original synthesis based on a critical realist re-reading of their work, and to understanding the postmodern … Continue reading
Foucault : The Birth of Biopolitics
This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: ”Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics”. What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined … Continue reading
The Panopticon Factor: Privacy and Surveillance in the Digital Age
This paper questions the use of new technologies as tools of modern surveillance in order to: (a) advance the research done by Michel Foucault on panoptic techniques of surveillance and dominance; and (b) give new insights on the way we … Continue reading
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New Materialisms: Foucault and the ‘Government of Things
The article explores the perspectives of Foucault’s notion of government by linking it to the debate on the ‘new materialism’. Discussing Karen Barad’s critical reading of Foucault’s work on the body and power, it points to the idea of a … Continue reading
Power, labour power and productive force in Foucault’s reading of Capital
This article uses Foucault’s lecture courses to illuminate his reading of Marx’s Capital in Discipline and Punish. Foucault finds in Marx’s account of cooperation a precedent for his own approach to power. In turn, Foucault helps us rethink the concepts … Continue reading
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