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Monsters of Sex: Michel Foucault and the Problem of Life
Get PDFThis article argues, contra-Derrida, that Foucault does not essentialize or pre-comprehend the meaning of life or bio- in his writings on biopolitics. Instead, Foucault problematizes life and provokes genealogical questions about the meaning of modernity more broadly. In The Order of Things, the 1974-75 lecture course at the Collège de France, and Herculine Barbin, the monster is an important figure of the uncertain shape of modernity and its entangled problems (life, sex, madness, criminality, etc). Engaging Foucault’s monsters, I show that the problematization of life is far from a “desire for a threshold,” à la Derrida. It is a spur to interrogating and critiquing thresholds, a fraught question mark where we have “something to do.” As Foucault puts it in “The Lives of Infamous Men,” it an ambiguous frontier where beings lived and died and they appear to us “because of an encounter with power which, in striking down a life and turning it to ashes, makes it emerge, like a flash [...].
Honor and Humiliation: James Chesnut and Violent Emotions in Reconstruction South Carolina
Get PDFReconstruction has been seen as the period of redeeming lost southern honor. I argue, however, that the Reconstruction struggle was not simply about restoring pre-war honor to defeated Southerners, for the Civil War had not terminated or subdued honor. Rather, its contents, the idea of what was honorable, underwent changes. These changes were observed and lamented by James Chesnut, Jr. (1815–1885), a politician from South Carolina. Honor can be seen both as a source of emotion guidelines and as a tool used for navigating between acceptable and unacceptable emotions. By expressing acceptable emotions, an individual could claim ownership to honor and attempt to achieve life goals. During Reconstruction, the role of honor and the importance of honor-related emotional expression intensified. Because of major changes in society, individual goals changed and the necessity of forceful alteration to the understanding of honor arose. It became transformed, borrowing from violence, racism, and a more acute fear of shame. Aiming to preserve white supremacy, many white Southerners readjusted their honor ideals and emotional expression. Nonetheless, some moderate individuals, like Chesnut, found it difficult to adopt these new ideals and thus all but lost their political power
Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco, and Donatella Izzo's (Eds.) Harbors, Flows, and Migrations. The USA in/and the World
Get PDFTowards an Analytic of Violence: Foucault, Arendt & Power
Get PDFViolence is an often used but much less theoretically discussed word, even among Foucauldian scholars, with Johanna Oksala being a notable exception. However, she limits her definition of violence to physical forms. In this article, I seek to overcome the quandaries she poses for wide-ranging definitions of violence by incorporating Arendt’s critique of violence into a Foucauldian paradigm. While some work, though not a great deal, has been done on comparing Arendt and Foucault, I highlight some points of commonality that makes Arendtian violence accessible to Foucauldian scholars that mostly rest on the concept of freedom. If power is productive to the extent that it provides the potential to act otherwise, Arendt, in many ways, situates violence as the prevention of this, similar to Foucault’s account of domination. Violence and power are therefore cast in a symbiotic relationship, not limited to physicality, whereby power produces meaning as well as the ability to act and violence is projected as preventive; in such a scenario, the push for freedom can be positioned as a second-order normative claim
Har du talt med dit demokrati i dag? - overvågning, kontrol/disciplinering, demokrati, sprog og etik i fagre ny verden
Get PDFArtiklen vil med udgangspunkt i de to dystopiske romaner ”1984” og ”Fahrenheit 451” fokusere på den demokratiske og den teknologiske udvikling og bl.a. diskutere overvågning, kontrol/disciplinering, demokrati, sprog og etik i et samfundsmæssigt og individuelt perspektiv og muligheden for at genoprette en demokratisk dialog. Den i artiklen adresserede optimistiske mulighed/forhåbning om at genoprette en demokratisk dialog er baseret på en antagelse, der diskuteres i artiklen om, at demokratiet er i krise i forhold til at demokratiske processer kontinuert og i stadig stigende omfang kortsluttes af både politikere og øvrige magthavere. Den demokratiske dialog kan skabes af mennesket i samfundet, hvis de kan se, opleve og forholde sig til håbet gennem samtale, refleksion, dannelse og bevidst stræben.
Problemets anatomi – Fra ledelsesproblem til vidensproblem
Get PDFFormålet med denne artikel er at bidrage til forståelsen af, hvordan praktiske problemer (herunder ledelsesproblemer) og vidensproblemer er forskellige og alligevel kan berige hinanden. Artiklen henvender sig til ledere, som skal lave en akademisk problemorienteret opgave i samfundsvidenskabeligt regi. Man benytter sig her ofte af problemorienteret projektarbejde, dvs at man strukturerer sine analyser ved hjælp af en problemformulering. Artiklen stiller – og besvarer – derfor spørgsmålet om, hvad et problem er. Endvidere argumenterer den for vigtigheden af at skelne mellem videns- og ledelsesproblemer
Reflections on Jen Sandler and Renita Thedvall (eds.). 2017. Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance. New York: Routledge.
Get PDFReaders’ Corner: Reflections on Jen Sandler and Renita Thedvall (eds.). 2017. Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance. New York: Routledge
Critique as Collaboration in Design Anthropology
Get PDFDesign anthropology is an emerging field at the intersection of design and anthropology with a distinct style of knowing. This paper argues that in order to create transdisciplinary practices around collaboration for design anthropology, the field must understand existing practices of critique in the field of design. Based on a two-year National Science Foundation funded study of collaboration with designers and design educators in four countries, this article describes the culture of critique that underpins the collaborative practices of designers. In particular, designers often participate in a studio-based culture of critique, which is learned in art and design schools, even when it is not explicitly taught. Finally, as the field of design anthropology matures to include global networks of scholars and practitioners, it is useful to consider the ways in which emergent practices of critique as collaboration, supported by digital platforms, might move beyond the design studio and into distributed collaborations
Formål og mål i New Public Management – ressource, begrænsning, trivialitet eller byrde?
Get PDFÉt vigtigt princip for New Public Management (NPM) er, at mål er en god måde at konkretisere udviklingsønsker på. Udgangspunktet er, at formål skal oversættes til et nuanceret målhierarki. Dette målhierarki antages at fylde formålet ud med mål. Dilemmaet er her, at mål sjældent er det samme som de formål, man ønsker at fremme, men er kvantificeringer defineret i forlængelse heraf. Det er en styringsform, som driver forandring ved at insistere på, at det er muligt, om end på det givne tidspunkt uklart, hvordan at skabe ikke blot forandring, men forbedring. Da forandring ikke er det samme som forbedring, er der et muligt gap mellem formål og mål. Men hvordan ser et sådant gap ud? Og hvordan ville en ledelsesmæssig indsats kunne hjælpe med at håndtere det? Dette todelte spørgsmål organiserer denne artikel
Genanvendt: Et kritisk tilbageblik på digitale metoders konsekvenser for kontroverskortlægningen
Get PDFDigitale metoders centrale postulat er, at vi kan genanvende nettets medier til at sige noget om samfundet i øvrigt. Det gælder ikke mindst indenfor kontroverskortlægningen,hvor digitale medier er blevet væsentlige skuepladser for diskussioner om ny viden og teknologi. Begrebet genanvendelse synes at indebære, at en eksisterende metodisk og analytisk tradition finder nye måder at bruge nogle redskaber på. Vi kan således have en tendens til at spørge, hvordan kontroverskortlægningen har fundet nye anvendelser for værktøjer til eksempelvis mønstergenkendelse eller automatiseret tekstanalyse. I denne artikel argumenterer jeg for, at vi bør stille spørgsmålet om genanvendelse anderledes. Efter 15 år i tæt parløb med nettets indfødte medier og metoder kan vi konstatere, at det også er kontroverskortlægningen selv, der har forandret sig; at det i nogen grad også er den metodiske og analytiske tradition, der er blevet genanvendt til nye formål og i sine nye redskabers billede.
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Repurposed: a critical review of digital methods and their consequences for the cartography of controversies
The central claim of digital methods is that we can repurpose online media to make claims about society more generally. This is not least the case in controversy mapping where digital media have become significant arenas for discussions about new knowledge and technology. The concept of repurposing seems to suggest that an existing methodological and analytical tradition is finding new ways of using a set of tools. We can thus have a tendency to ask how controversy mapping has found new applications for tools designed to do for example pattern recognition or automated text analysis. In this paper I argue that we should be approaching the question of repurposing from a different angle. After 15 years of close engagements with the native media and methods of the web it is evident that the practice of controversy mapping has also in itself changed; that it is also, to some extent, the methodological and analytical tradition that has been repurposed under the influence of its new tools.
Keywords: Digital methods, ANT, STS, controversy mappin