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The (Re)making of Flow: Mediator Companies and Knowledge Production
Get PDFThis article concerns the (re)making of the flow of knowledge by structural biologists employed in a mediator company located between the university domain and the business world in Sweden. Drawing on Marilyn Strathern’s theory of ‘cutting the flow’, this article ethnographically studies the flow of knowledge: how it is locally made, stopped, and remade in the laboratory. The first part reflects on the author’s learning process during the fieldwork, while the second part discusses the hybrid position of mediator companies and the practices of associated researchers. The third part investigates the status of these companies among policymakers and life science stakeholders. The fourth and fifth parts ethnographically describe the cut and the (re)making of the flow of knowledge in everyday laboratory work. Taken together, these five parts will result in an attempt to extend Strathern’s theoretical approach.
Interview med Hanne Dahl
Get PDFTil sommer går Danske Fag-, Forsknings- og Uddannelsesbibliotekers sekretær, Hanne Dahl, på pension efter 15 år, som hende der bandt alle de løse ender, vi andre ikke rigtig lagde mærke til. REVY har mødt Hanne til en snak om en forening, der har forandret sig og så alligevel ikke og 15 år med navneskifte, talrige arrangementer, forskellige formænd, glade sømænd og en dame med hånddukker
Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault’s Unreason
Get PDFDuring the late nineties, leading voices of the sex worker rights movement began to publicly question queer theory’s virtual silence on the subject of prostitution and sex work. However, this attempt by sex workers to “come out of the closet” into the larger queer theoretical community has thus far failed to bring much attention to sex work as an explicitly queer issue. Refusing the obvious conclusion—that queer theory’s silence on sex work somehow proves its insignificance to this field of inquiry—I trace in Foucault’s oeuvre signs of an alternate (albeit differently) queer genealogy of prostitution and sex work. Both challenging and responding to long-standing debates about prostitution within feminist theory, I offer a new queer genealogy of sex work that aims to move beyond the rigid oppositions that continue to divide theorists of sexuality and gender. Focusing specifically on History of Madness (1961), Discipline and Punish (1975), and History of Sexuality Volume I (1976), I make the case for an alternate genealogy of sex work that takes seriously both the historical construction of prostitution and the lived experience of contemporary sex workers
Foucault and Weber on Leadership and the Modern Subject
Get PDFI propose in this paper that Foucault’s interest in parrhesia as a “technique of the self,” particularly in his reading of Cynic parrhesia, can be fruitfully taken as an exemplar for new political thought on leadership. I make my case by comparing parrhesia with Weber’s charisma, which is the only force Weber allows for inserting new valuations into traditional and rational-legal legitimate dominations. I propose that charisma and parrhesia not only share several key characteristics, but express an overabundance of identities. Although it is rarely acknowledged, I propose that this should hardly be surprising given Foucault’s longstanding interest in Weber’s work. Foucault’s governmentality can be productively set next to Weber’s psycho-sociology of modern man, Menschentum, to reveal the parallel courses taken by these two thinkers on the modern predicament. Both share a critical curiosity – one that revolves around Kant’s presentation in “What is Enlightenment?” – about life, and about seeing how we have come to be how we are as a philosophical problem. Yet, even with all of their parallels, particularly on the subject of leadership, the staggering difference between Foucault and Weber is that while Weber approached charisma as a possible therapy to the problem of the Menschentum being unable to derive new valuations from his rational-legal calculations, Foucault approached parrhesia by looking for techniques for confronting disciplined and biopolitical subjects within society with dangerous truths. Whereas conventional wisdom may presume that it is at such points as Weber’s charismatic leadership that Weber and Foucault would part ways, careful study shows that leadership is a point of connection between these two thinkers
Opening Black Boxes Is Not Enough – Data-based Surveillance In Discipline and Punish And Today
Get PDFDiscipline and Punish analyzes the role of collecting, managing, and operationalizing data in disciplinary institutions. Foucault’s discussion is compared to contemporary forms of surveillance and security practices using algorithmic data processing. The article highlights important similarities and differences regarding the way data processing plays a part in subjectivation. This is also compared to Deleuzian accounts and Foucault’s later discussion in Security, Territory, Population. Using these results, the article argues that the prevailing focus on transparency and accountability in the discussion of algorithmic applications needs to be amended with a perspective on different forms of subjectivity and ensuing power relations
Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013), ISBN: 978-0674660014
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Austerity Ireland, the New Thrift Culture and Sustainable Consumption
Get PDFIn this article, I discuss whether austerity measures have an impact on individual consumers’ orientations towards sustainability. Through an ethnographic examination of second-hand markets, in particular flea markets and second-hand baby goods markets, I examine whether economic crisis has changed people’s consumption habits in Irish society. While the study of sustainability has a long, interdisciplinary history, little is known about the relationship between austerity and sustainable consumption patterns, particularly in an Irish context. Thus, this study questions whether reduced spending and consumption patterns may serve the interests of sustainability politics.
Hvordan anvender kommunale chefer resultatinformation?
Get PDFFormålet med denne artikel er at bidrage til en større forståelse af, hvordan resultatinformation anvendes i danske kommuner. Via surveydata undersøges det, i hvilket omfang og hvordan kommunale chefer anvender resultatinformation. Derudover ses der nærmere på, hvorvidt der er variation i anvendelsen af resultatinformation på tværs af sektorområder. Artiklen viser, at der er variation i kommunale chefers overordnede anvendelse af resultatinformation, og at de kommunale chefer primært anvender resultatinformation til læring og strategisk prioritering, mens resultatinformation kun i mindre grad anvendes kontrol- og incitamentsorienteret. Derudover viser artiklen, at der er variation mellem kommunale chefers anvendelse af resultatinformation på tværs af sektorområder