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Re-thinking Thought: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Possibility of Thinking
Get PDFThis paper examines how Foucault and Deleuze understand each other’s work, arguing that they are united in their common endeavour to make it possible to think again. Focusing on Foucault’s ‘Theatrum Philosophicum’ and Deleuze’s Foucault, it shows how each of Foucault and Deleuze considers the other as someone who opens anew the possibility of thinking. The first section examines Deleuze’s interpretation of Foucault’s work. It demonstrates that, despite sounding as if he is elucidating his own philosophy, Deleuze is correct in saying that Foucault re-thinks thought by positing the disjunction between the articulable and the visible, among other things. Turning to Foucault’s review of Deleuze’s works, the second section explains why Foucault deems Deleuze’s notion of thought as a disjunctive affirmation. By underscoring the disjunctive role ‘and’ plays in the disjunctive affirmation of ‘the event and the phantasm’ and/or of thought itself and its object, Foucault considers Deleuze as someone who re-thinks thought not by conceptualising it but by thinking difference. The paper concludes that, while each endeavours to consider thought in a new light, both Foucault and Deleuze believe that the other makes it possible to think again
“The world too much with us? Rot!”: William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Literary Perception
Get PDFThis paper examines the poetics of perception and the accompanying moral commitments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry, paying attention in particular to the visual ethos of his work. If in his early years Williams conceptualized the poet’s function as “lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses.” One of the chief arguments here is that this emphasis be understood as an expansive and ethically implicating one, rather than in creatively circumscribing terms. “Such war, as the arts live and breathe by,” Williams asserts in 1944, “is continuous.” After establishing the ethical basis for Williams’s poetics, this paper assesses the perceptual politics of his work of the 1940s specifically, and in a number of literary and historical contexts, including: his revisionary engagement with William Wordsworth and the Romantic tradition; his infamous poetic “exultation” at the bombing of London in 1941 and his elegy for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and his politically complex and often incendiary poems of social observation in these years. As such, this article both reveals and interrogates the sometimes contradictory ethical engagements and creative procedures that define Williams’s work in a period of profound political crisis
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016: A Paradigm Shift within Insolvency Laws in India
Get PDFdelivery and availability in India in light of the changes brought about by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. The introduction of the Code is purported to resolve the issues within the credit ecosystem by identifying correctly all the stakeholders, most importantly the creditors and the debtors, resolving and settling non-performing assets, creating a robust mechanism for settling credit-related disputes, reducing creditor distrust and ensuring continuance of functioning of companies rather than being wound up for non-payment of debts.While the Code promises to be a game changer, there exist various challenges that need to be addressed as the success of the Code is dependent on the manner in which its provisions are implemented, especially those pertaining to the strict timelines with parties seeking excessive discretionary indulgence from the adjudicatory authorities. Further, the challenges include impact of differential treatment meted out to the creditors, the committee of creditors being ordained with considerable powers over the fate of the corporate debtor, and the insolvency professionals being allowed to run the entities without much accountability and capability has resulted in an increased number of disputes. The legal, logical and procedural hurdles thus mentioned will need to be addressed in the most amicable manner within the foreseeable future
The Librarian
Get PDF“Frode søgte ind på Institut for Informationsstudier dagen efter at han havde set filmen ‘The librarian’ og havde store forventninger til fremtiden...
Styring i spændingsfeltet mellem vilde problemer og stramme budgetter
Get PDFDynamikkerne, kompleksiteten og de vilde problemer på socialområdet har ofte indebåret, at socialt arbejde har været opfattet som svært styrbart ud fra et økonomisk perspektiv. I denne artikel analyseres det, hvordan en kommune efter finanskrisen reorganiserede økonomistyringen for at sikre en mere stram budgetstyring samtidig med at de decentrale frihedsgrader blev bevaret. Vi anvender Levers of Control-begrebsapparatet til at vise, hvordan traditionelle budget- og planlægningsprocesser og -systemer anvendes fleksibelt og dynamisk som såkaldte interaktive styringssystemer. Analysen indikerer, at interaktiv brug af budgetstyring kan fremme fleksibilitet i den offentlige sektor og skabe rum for innovation og læring, således at den faglige dømmekraft styrkes, samtidig med at den økonomiske forudsigelighed og budgetoverholdelsen forbedres
Verdensmålene: En vision for verden
Get PDFVerdensmål. Verdens mål. Mål for verden! Kan man forestille sig noget større eller mere revolutionerende, udfordrende, respektindgydende og håbefuldt? Menneskehedens, homo sapiens’ historie spænder over ca. 300.000 år. Planeten Jordens historie går 4,5 milliarder år tilbage. Der har været liv på Jorden i 3,8 milliarder år. Fem gange i disse milliarder år har der været såkaldte masseuddøener, dvs. perioder, hvor meget store dele af alt liv på Jorden døde. Sidste gang - den femte masseuddøen - var for ca. 66 millioner år siden, og her antages det, at ca. 75 pct. af alt liv på Jorden blev udslettet. Spørger man på Københavns Universitet eller på andre universiteter rundt om i verden, vil man få at vide, at vi lige nu befinder os i begyndelsen af den sjette masseuddøen. Vi skal omgås dette ord med forsigtighed, men vi skal ikke lukke vore øjne for, at der sker alvorlige begivenheder på planeten jorden, og at nogle af disse begivenheder og fænomener er skabt af mennesker. De er forårsaget af menneskelig aktivitet. Carsten Rahbek, professor ved Center for Makroøkologi, Evolution og Klima ved Københavns Universitet, siger: ”Dyre-og plantearter indgår i et komplekst økosystem med hinanden det sted, hvor de lever. Fjerner man enkelte arter, bliver systemet ustabilt. På et tidspunkt kollapser det. Vi ved ikke nok om, hvad der præcist skal til, for at et økosystem kollapser, men vi ved, at vi leger med ilden i øjeblikket”
Fordelingspolitikkens nye ånd – om mulighederne for kritik i konkurrencestaten
Get PDFMed sin introduktion af begrebet ’konkurrencestat’ i en dansk kontekst tilbød Ove Kaj Pedersen et nyt teoretisk perspektiv på, hvordan den universelle danske velfærdsstat i et vist omfang er blevet erstattet af en neoliberal konkurrencestat baseret på markedstænkning. I denne artikel forsøger jeg at udbygge denne forståelse af konkurrencestaten ved at analysere udviklingen i Danmark fra velfærdsstat til konkurrencestat ved hjælp af Boltanski og Chiapellos teori om kapitalismens nye ånd. Igennem denne analyse søger jeg for det første at vise, at de værdier, som konkurrencestaten henviser til, når den retfærdiggør sin fordelingspolitik, ikke kun kan forstås som udtryk for markedstænkning. De må også i høj grad forstås som udtryk for idealiseringen af fleksibilitet, kreativitet og inklusion i arbejdsnetværk, som Boltanski og Chiapello identificerer som centrale i kapitalismens nye ånd, og som har rødder i venstrefløjens kapitalismekritik. For det andet er formålet med artiklen at diskutere, hvilke negative konsekvenser idealiseringen af fleksibilitet og omstillingsparathed samt det store fokus på kontinuerligt at opkvalificere borgere kan risikere at have for borgere og offentligt ansattes mulighed for at forholde sig kritisk til konkurrencestatens moralske legitimitet.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT Jacob Didia Jensen: The new spirit of allocation policy With his introduction of the concept ‘competition state’ in Denmark, Ove Kaj Pedersen offered a new perspective on how the universal Danish welfare state has been partially replaced by a neoliberal competition state based on market logic. In this article, I seek to expand this idea of the competition state by analysing the Danish development from welfare state to competition state through Boltanski and Chiapello’s theory of a new spirit of capitalism. In this analysis, I seek to show, firstly, that the values used by the competition state to justify its allocation policy cannot only be understood as an expression of market logic. They must also to be understood as expressions of the idealisation of flexibility, creativity and inclusion in work-based networks, that Boltanski and Chiapello identify as central in the new spirit of capitalism, and which have roots in the left-wing critique of capitalism. Secondly, the article discusses how negative consequences the idealisation of flexibility, adaptability and the focus on continuously upgrading the skills of citizens in order to ensure their inclusion on the labour market impact on the ability of citizens and public employees to critically reflect on the moral legitimacy of the competition state. Keywords: competition state, allocation policy, justification, critique, new spirit of capitalism, Boltanski and Chiapell
Overblik og fuldstændighed –en saga blot? Eller to cases om nordiske nationalbibliografier: bibliotek.dk og Oria.no
Get PDFDet er nationalbibliografien, der er emnet for denne artikel. Nærmere bestemt de to nordiske nationalbibliografier: Bibliotek.dk i Danmark og Oria.no i Norge. På baggrund af to cases fra henholdsvis humaniora og samfundsvidenskab vil vi se nærmere på indekseringen og funktionaliteterne i baserne. Vores erfaringer har nemlig skabt en fælles bekymring for kvaliteten af forskningskortlægninger inden for vores fagområder, når det gælder den nordiske forskningslitteratur. Og spørgsmålet er, om overblik og fuldstændighed er en saga blot og en forventning, vi ikke mere kan have, når vi anvender nationalbibliografien i forskningen