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Time for Foucault? Reflections on the Roman Self from Seneca to Augustine
Get PDFThe essay approaches the idea of the self as this was most often formulated in antiquity from Heraclitus to Augustine—not as the object of self-fashioning and self-care, but as an irresolvable problem that was a productive if disconcerting source of inquiry. The self is less cultivated than it is “unbounded,” less wedded to regimes of truth and discovery than it is exposed, precariously, to crises of identity and coherence in the face of a constantly changing and unfathomable world. The self on this view of it does not conform to the accounts that are given by Foucault, Hadot, or Gill. Readings of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Augustine are used to support this first attempt at an alternative picture of the self in antiquity
The Inverted Eye. Panopticon and Panopticism, Revisited
Get PDFPanopticism is commonly taken to rely on something like a panoptic gaze – a reading of Foucault which still prevails in the discussion of today’s surveillance (and subjectification) technologies in the wake of Surveiller et punir. In my re-reading of the relevant chapters of Foucault’s book I argue that the gaze does not occupy a central role in the techniques of discipline and power that Foucault describes. Quite to the contrary, Foucault analyses virtualization and automatization procedures that – after cutting off of the King’s head – invert and eliminate the sovereignty of the gaze as well: they also rip out the sovereign’s eye. Surveiller et punir thus should be read as a book about a certain eyelessness of the modern political. Where truly modern power is assumed to be, there is nothing to be seen. This also means that panopticism does not provide a master key to understand digital technologies of power
Sami Lakomäki's Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870
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Den offentlige mellemleders lederskab under og efter en krisetid
Get PDFOffentlig ledelse har længe været en kompleks opgave, men kompleksitetens karakter ændrer sig under og efter en krise. Artiklen tegner et billede af den aktuelle krisehåndtering i en dansk kontekst, der som udgangspunkt er præget af centralisering. Den viser, at det tilsyneladende ikke er blevet sværere at opnå legitimitet til nødvendige tiltag, og at der er specifikke kontekster, hvor krisen har været en anledning til forandring og kontekster, hvor der er behov for yderligere forandring
Krisen og ’koncernmodellen’ i kommunerne
Get PDFKommunerne er i de senere år blevet stillet over for krav om stram økonomisk styring. I denne artikel stilles der skarpt på de organisatoriske forandringer, der har gjort kommunerne i stand til at honorere dette krav. Vi undersøger, hvilken rolle krisen har spillet som forandringsfaktor, og hvorvidt forandringerne bringer kommunerne i retning af en ’koncernmodel’ for administrativ organisering. Analysen tager udgangspunkt i casestudier i seks danske kommuner, der på forskellig vis er blevet ramt af krisen og statens strammere styring. Den viser, at krisen og stramningerne har været medvirkende faktorer i udviklingen af mere tværgående topledelse i alle case-kommunerne og en mere hierarkisk organisering i de kommuner, der blev etableret efter en meget flad model. Kommunernes nye organisationsdesign ledsages af et ideal om tværgående og strategisk ledelse, der stiller nye krav til offentlige ledere på alle niveauer
Magical Capitalism
Get PDFThis essay looks at ways in which various branches of capitalist enterprise and their supporting mechanisms are often not as rational as they make themselves out to be, but operate instead according to magical premises. Magical thinking, as a mode of thought, creates or invokes extraordinary connections between things, people, organizations, and beliefs in order to understand, explain, influence, and occasionally predict, events. Magical practices involve magicians, magical rites, and magical representations ― almost invariably working together to perform the overcoming of uncertainty. And uncertainty, in the sense of unpredictability, is what underpins government, business, and the economy. The essay makes use of seven scenarios ― ranging from Davos and Brexit to GPS and Japanese manga ― to illustrate how politicians, media, education, and various forms of cultural production make use of language, technologies, and images to perform magic in contemporary societies
