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Eterotopie della resistenza e classi subalterne. Infrapolitica e mobilitazione per il lavoro in un'azienda sanitaria del Mezzogiorno
No full textThis article focuses on a social struggle for the right of employment lead by a group of precarious temporary workers of the main hospital of Messina, a city of South of Italy. Starting from the exposition of a heterogeneous ethnographic materials, we analyze the political emergence of subaltern subjectivity able to overcome the egoistic and individualist typical relationship frame of the public sector in the South Italy in order to claim an effective right of employment, based on institutional backbone (supported by a trade-union, the CGIL, means of collective bargaining based on law, the 2007 and 2008 financial laws, set out to stabilize temporary employed people). The framework of this social struggle collectively claimed as right (i.e. as stemmed not from biased interest but from common interest) takes spatial shape through a permanent picket line, during 7 months, in the hall of hospital direction in a Sicilian city. The ability to resist in this picket line is crucial for the positive outcome of the dispute. The operative ways of such picket line allow to describe it as a heterotopy able to organize the space and the imaginary through informal and expressive resources that by an original way come up to sustain customary trade-union representation. After the description of the events, we highlight how trade-union organizers, even if they enact a discourse depicting temporary employed people as “subaltern”, come anyway to create a space of negotiation which become productive for the struggle. Then, we show how the strategic practices of subaltern people within the discursive field of institutional agents succeed to overturn such field and to present a new narration of “oppressed rebellion”. This narration provide a symbolic texture indispensable for the collective subjectivation of the group. Thus, we stress on the infrapolitical dimension including a range of informal resources, discursive practices, and forms of theatrical performance capable to transform the picket line in a real heterotopic organization which allows to resist in the struggle. At the end, we outline a theoretical framework in which we deal with the critical tension between the crises of representation and the forms of subaltern subjectivation, making clear both the categories used in the ethnographic analysis and the whole line of reasoning bridging the parts of this article
Introduction : Foucault and the Making of Subjects : Rethinking Autonomy between Subjection and Subjectivation
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Foucault and the Making of Subjects
No full textMichel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in a serious reconsideration of the notion of “autonomy” beyond the liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault’s reflections on it and interrogate the current theoretical and political implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Potere e narrazione storica negli studi postcoloniali. Su Edward Said
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The Becoming-black of Neoliberalism. The Extraction Corps and the black Alethurgy in the Age of Neoliberal biopolitical Planetarization
Get PDFUno de los aspectos más remarcables del proyecto anunciado por una obra como Crítica de la razón negra, de Achille Mbembe, es el intento de esbozar un marco conceptual e histórico, amplio y coherente, que conduzca a la ineludible articulación de una genealogía global del vínculo entre la sujeción racial (la fabricación de un sujeto de raza que Mbembe llama “el Negro”) y el diagnóstico de la creciente planetarización del neoliberalismo que orientan la superposición de espacios y de tiempos de nuestro presenteglobal. De ahí la idea de que el devenir-mundo del neoliberalismo de hoy no pueda estar disociado de lo que Mbembe llama la “universalización tendencial de la condición negra” e invoca, por consiguiente, una genealogía entorno a lo que podríamos llamar el devenir- negro del neoliberalismo. Esta contribución retomará las reflexiones de Mbembe, situándose de manera crítica respecto a ciertos problemas que parecen quedar abiertos o susceptibles de ser elaborados en mayor profundidad
The Actualité of Philosophy and its History: Michel Foucault’s Legacy on a Philosophy of the Present
Get PDFFrom the late 1970s, and particularly in the last years of his life, Michel Foucault repeatedly returned to the status of philosophical reflection as an ontology of the present, of actualité, or an ontology of ourselves. However, the impact of these famous theoretical syntagms around a philosophy of the present or of actualité – one of Foucault's most precious legacies 40 years after his death – is not fully intelligible without considering that they were already at the heart of Foucault's reflections on the status of philosophy from the mid-1960s onwards.
Today, with the recent publication of the essay Le Discours philosophique, we can better understand how the concept of actualité shaped, within an archaeological framework of analysis, the highly complex elaboration of the status of philosophy as a discourse aimed at providing a diagnosis of our actualité. The theoretical density of this latter term reveals a rich panorama of philosophical references (sometimes explicit, sometimes more implicit) that are essential for grasping both the historical-conceptual stakes of this term and the way in which it is, for the first time, inscribed at the heart of the status of philosophy, giving rise also to the very possibility of making it an object of historicization that at the time was still only archaeological.
The aim of this contribution is to show how Le Discours philosophique broadens our understanding of what Foucault would later take up in a wider horizon of analysis, in which actualité would mark a renewed space of historical analysis of the contingent relationship between philosophy and its present, by redefining philosophical reflection as a practico-reflexive mode that Foucault will designate as “attitude” (and “critical attitude”)
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