Foucault and fugitive study

2021 ◽  
pp. 019145372110426
Author(s):  
Alexander Means
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Study Time ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
The University ◽  
Western Humanism

Michel Foucault was one of the 20th century’s great practitioners of study. Time in the archives and library, teaching, reading, thinking, and writing were all integrated aspects of his tireless labor to find lines of escape out of the confines of Western humanism and totalizing approaches to power and history. Drawing on Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France and the work of James Bernauer, this article discusses Foucault’s mode of study as a practice of freedom. It then mobilizes Foucault’s analyses of biopolitics and neoliberal reason to address new enclosures of academic labor that push against study within the university. The article argues that Foucault was not able to anticipate how the biopolitical horizon would become ever-more dependent on extraction, including from the value generated by academic labor. It then draws on ideas of fugitivity and undercommons to supplement Foucault’s study as a mode of resistance.

Working at the Crossroads: A Guide for Border Crossing

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mckiernan-González
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the impact of George J. Sánchez’s keynote address “Working at the Crossroads” in making collaborative cross-border projects more academically legitimate in American studies and associated disciplines. The keynote and his ongoing administrative labor model the power of public collaborative work to shift research narratives. “Working at the Crossroads” demonstrated how historians can be involved—as historians—in a variety of social movements, and pointed to the ways these interactions can, and maybe should, shape research trajectories. It provided a key blueprint and key examples for doing historically informed Latina/o studies scholarship with people working outside the university. Judging by the success of Sánchez’s work with Boyle Heights and East LA, projects need to establish multiple entry points, reward participants at all levels, and connect people across generations.I then discuss how I sought to emulate George Sánchez’s proposals in my own work through partnering with labor organizations, developing biographical public art projects with students, and archiving social and cultural histories. His keynote address made a back-and-forth movement between home communities and academic labor seem easy and professionally rewarding as well as politically necessary, especially in public universities. 

FROM SEXUALITY TO GOVERNMENTALITY: THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX OF MICHEL FOUCAULT

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRANDON KONOVAL
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Critical Pathway ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Individual

The figure of Oedipus haunted the thought of Michel Foucault from the outset of his tenure at the Collège de France, in association with several key philosophical and historical projects, and enduring until the conclusion of his career. However, it was with Foucault's account of an “Oedipus complex”—one that operated “not at the individual level but at the collective level; not in connection with desire and the unconscious but in connection with power and knowledge” (“Truth and Juridical Forms,” 1973)—that Foucault was able to enlist Oedipus for a genealogy of “sexuality” and, furthermore, of “governmentality,” such as would increasingly preoccupy him through the mid- to late 1970s. Foucault's attention to classical texts—in particular the Oedipus Tyrannos of Sophocles and the Republic of Plato—thereby helped to clear a critical pathway through the conventional Marxism embraced by the “repressive hypothesis,” and to arrive at a Nietzschean genealogy of sexuality and power.

scholarly journals Segurança, território, população

Sociologias ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (28) ◽  
pp. 370-380
Author(s):  
Edson Benedito Rondon Filho
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Collège De France

A obra retrata o curso de mesmo nome ministrado por Michel Foucault no Collège de France (1977-1978), onde o autor desenvolveu a genealogia de uma forma de saber político centrado nos mecanismos que possibilitam a regulação da população. A arte de governar e o 'governo de si' são questionados em um transcurso histórico que desaguou em uma "razão de Estado", cuja racionalidade implicou na construção de conjuntos de saberes e de tecnologias de poder, necessários para o crescimento das forças do Estado. Ao demonstrar os problemas que a Polizeiwissenschaft devia controlar, delimitou o papel da polícia como garantidora da ordem interna e técnica de controle populacional, dotada de saberes específicos, constituindo-se, junto com segurança e a Economia Política, naquilo que Foucault denominou de biopolítica.

scholarly journals Exercícios ascéticos e práticas pedagógicas: por uma genealogia do poder disciplinar

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Ernani Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Collège De France

O presente artigo pretende mostrar, a partir do curso “O poder psiquiátrico” ministrado por Michel Foucault no Collège de France em 1973-1974, a relação entre exercícios ascéticos e as práticas pedagógicas desenvolvidas nas comunidades religiosas medievais e a constituição histórica do poder disciplinar. Para isso, avalia-se o lugar estratégico dos cursos de Foucault para a compreensão de seu pensamento, assim como se aponta a consequência de sua análise, qual seja, por um lado, a necessidade da solidão, do isolamento para a produção do conhecimento e, por outro lado, entretanto, a necessidade de romper este isolamento, tendo em vista a circulação social do saber. Encontrar uma resolução para este conflito constitui-se, por sua vez, numa forma de resistência ao poder disciplinar.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Impact on Regional Medical Campus Education: Student Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Obed Barkus ◽  
Dorothy Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Study Time ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Exam Performance ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Curriculum Changes ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
The University ◽  
Detrimental Impact

Due to social distancing precautions and the desire to protect clinical learners, the COVID-19 pandemic forced medical schools everywhere to implement more distanced and virtualized learning in their educational curriculums. More specifically, at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina, a regional medical campus, the impact of some of these changes were also seen and felt. The purpose of this study was to investigate the downstream effects of these curriculum changes from the perspectives and opinions of medical students attending a regional medical campus. To explore the study purpose, a mixed-methods, cross-sectional study that used an online survey with closed and open-ended questions was used. Additionally, because of unique curriculum characteristics depending on the year of the student, 1st and 2nd year students (phase I) were asked slightly different questions than students in their 3rd and 4th years (phase II). Closed-ended questions asked students about lecture experience, clinical learning development and time, study time, exam performance, collaborative learning experiences, and socialization/interactions with colleagues. Students answered in range of -3 to +3, negative numbers meaning a detrimental impact (or decrease in study time), and positive numbers being beneficial impact (or increase in study time). Open-ended questions asked students about improvements that could be made, unique class circumstances during the pandemic and any other relevant impact not covered in closed-ended questions. For phase I students, lecture experience, study time and exam performance resulted in no impact. However, collaborative learning and socialization with colleagues did result in a detrimental impact that was significant. For phase II learners, clinical skills development, time spent in clinical skills development and socialization with colleagues were detrimentally impacted. However, the amount of time spent on studying increased and exam performance benefited. These findings suggest that pandemic-related curriculum changes impact learners differently depending on the phase of medical they are in.               There are no conflicts of interest by either of the authors. This study has been approved by the University of Kansas Medical Center Institutional Review Board.

scholarly journals Las gubernamentalidades del neoliberalismo

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-56
Author(s):  
Nicholas Gane
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Collège De France

El artículo toma como punto de partida la obra de Michel Foucault, particularmente los cursos sobre biopolítica dictados en el Collège de France (1978-1979), para examinar los distintos modelos de vigilancia con los que operan el liberalismo y el neoliberalismo en tanto formas de gobierno. En primer lugar, se hace una re-lectura de Vigilar y Castigar a la luz del análisis que realiza Foucault en sus cursos sobre el arte de gobierno liberal. Se argumenta que el Panóptico no es solo una arquitectura de poder centrada en la disciplina y la normalización, tal como se lo ha entendido comúnmente, sino un modelo normativo de la relación del Estado con el Mercado que, para Foucault, es ‘la fórmula misma de un gobierno liberal’ (2009: 89). En segundo lugar, los límites del panoptismo, y, por extensión, del gobierno liberal, son expuestos a partir del análisis de Gilles Deleuze sobre la mutación de sociedades disciplinarias a sociedades de ‘control’, y los escritos de Zygmunt Bauman acerca de la individualización y el ‘Sinóptico’. En respuesta a Deleuze y Bauman, la última sección de este artículo regresa a los cursos sobre biopolítica de Foucault para argumentar que la sociedad capitalista contemporánea está marcada no solo por la disminución de los poderes estatales o por la transmisión de responsabilidades del Estado al individuo, sino por la mercantilización neoliberal del Estado y sus instituciones en tanto proceso condicionado por una forma específica de gubernamentalidad. En conclusión, se proponen cuatro tipologías de vigilancia: como disciplina, como control, como interactividad y como mecanismo para promover la competencia. Se argumenta que, si bien estos tipos de vigilancia no son mutuamente excluyentes, están configurados por diferentes gubernamentalidades que pueden ser empleadas para examinar diferentes aspectos de la relación entre el Estado y el Mercado, así como lógicas culturales y sociales del capitalismo de mercado contemporáneo en un sentido más amplio.

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