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Managerialism as Will to Power : Technologies of Capital
No full textThis chapter asks how we are to understand the “economic rationalism” that marks the present ordering of political economy. It analyses this through the phrase, originating in the politics of the first part of the twentieth century, “total mobilisation” as the underlying metaphysical effect of “managerialism”, and as an effect of a will to power. The chapter then seeks to show how responses to managerialism have the effect, not of resolving, but of intensifying the same will to power, even within the context of liberal democracies. It does so by drawing attention to two “solutions” which appear to overcome the managerialism in which we are all enmeshed: (1) Thomas Picketty’s claims about equalisation of the distribution of wealth and value, and (2) Robert Shiller’s suggested goal that modern “financial technologies” should “expand, correct, and realign finance” by “democratising and humanising and expanding the scope of financial capitalism”, with the aim of “mak[ing] it possible for everyone to participate intelligently in the financial system” (Robert J. Shiller, Finance and the Good Society, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2012)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The triumph of managerialism? : New technologies of government and their implications for value
No full textThe overarching theme of this volume is the way in which global structures of public-private networks of governance are subordinating government and its distinctively public responsibilities and tasks: securing and attending to the welfare of a national-political community of citizens. It is this set of responsibilities, and the sovereign power required to sustain them, that has come under question by the imposition on national governments of a global institutional order that is designed to secure private capital rights
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Fighting Nihilism through Promoting a New Faith: Heidegger within the Debates of his Time
No full textHeidegger not only engaged with the great minds of the occidental tradition but also drew on trends of his time and responded to current debates. He was, above all, part of a strong tradition in German history that saw a pluralistic and divided society as a dangerous form of nihilism which needed to be overcome by a new single communal faith. In 1933, Heidegger sided with Hitler and the Nazis because to him they promised such a new faith. While he came to distance himself from Nazism by identifying the Third Reich with the 'technological frenzy' that also characterised in his mind the Soviet Union and the United States, he continued to hold on to the belief that only a new communal faith could save humanity. Technology was not the ultimate danger for him, but a humanity which was not guided by a non-humanistic faith
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