Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
CL Nash ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information Group

scholarly journals New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole B. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Police Forces ◽  
Urban Police

This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques of government that were ‘tested out’ in foreign warzones and then ‘brought back’ to urban centres (the helicopter and its utilization in Vietnam and its return to urban police forces is a clear illustration hereof), contemporary unmanned aerial vehicles hold the potential to act as proverbial ‘Foucauldian boomerangs’ and return from warzones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to Western cities. The paper explores how a nexus of Surveillance Studies and mobilities research may be a fruitful way into comprehending this new phenomenon. En route the practical applications of drones as well as the historical importance of aerial power are connected to a situational understanding of mobilities. The paper points at a number of challenges for the future and should be understood as a first tentative attempt to set this on the research agenda.

La «paideia» homosexuelle

1998 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Guy Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The State ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Erotic

As Michel Foucault describes it, the homosexual paideia in classical Greece was an erotic bonding between a boy who had to learn how to become a man, and a mature man who paid court to him. In many of his dialogues, Plato plays with this scheme: he retains the erotic atmosphere, but he inverts and purifies the whole process in the name of virtue and wisdom. In the Republic, however, Socrates' pupil forsakes this model in favor of a bisexual education for the shepherds and shepherdesses of the State. Aristotle resolutely opposes this move. He thus reverts to a kind of homosexual paideia for the future citizens of his ideal state, but this choice fosters many unspoken problems.

Queer Heterotopias: Homonormativity and the Future of Queerness

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Jones
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Political Program ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

First, this article draws from Michel Foucault to examine the creation of what is conceptualized here as queer heterotopias. Queer heterotopias are material spaces where radical practices go unregulated. They are sites where actors, whether academics or activists, engage in what we might call a radical politics of subversion, where individuals attempt to dislocate the normative configurations of sex, gender, and sexuality through daily exploration and experimentation with crafting a queer identity. Second, this article, utilizing Gilles Deleuze analyzes the process of becoming queer. The ways in which queerness develops in everyday life must be seen less as a clearly-defined political program and more as a spiritual journey individuals embark on. This article explores the development of queer heterotopias, and the problematic way in which queerness is being made, re-made, and fixed by academics and well-meaning activists who would like to appropriate, qualify, and fix queer subjectivity in order to advance a rights-based political program. The current policing of queerness, by both heteronormative and homonormative logic works against the development of queer heterotopias.

scholarly journals Light and Power: The Panopticon as a Political Form and its Variations

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Svyatoslav Kaspe
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Political Religion ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Form ◽  
Modern Era

After Michel Foucault, Bentham’s Panopticon became a widely recognized image of the modern state. The article focuses on some aspects of this strong metaphor that were not taken into account by Foucault or most other researchers. The question of the sources of light in the Panopticon, also understood metaphorically as a sine qua non for the exercise of power and for its legitimacy at the same time, allows to describe such variations of the state’s political form that is based on either a “political religion” (adjacent to a totalitarian phenomenon), or secular (adjacent to liberalism) and based on the “civil religion” (the most complicated of all). A key variable here is the mode to interface the political and the sacred. If in the pre-modern era the openness of political forms for influences emanating from the sacred was presumed, in modern states the political reaches autonomy; the political becomes emancipated from the sacred, and occupies its place in the most radical scenarios. The author argues that in the future, the highest sustainability will be demonstrated by those variations of the state political form in which this autonomy is not completed, or where the connections between the political and the sacred are maintained, albeit at a reduced level, that is, those in which “civil religion” is practiced.

From Immobility to Mobility: The Korean DMZ as a Heterotopia

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-225
Author(s):  
Taehee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Demilitarized Zone ◽  
The Future

While the current developments in the peace processes allow us to imagine the Korean Demilitarized Zone will acquire more thriving mobilities in the future, this article seeks to characterize this unique space as an absolutely different place; a “heterotopia” as suggested by Michel Foucault. In the course of the discussion, which focuses on (non)human (im)mobilities within the framework of the “new mobilities paradigm,” some main characteristics of the DMZ as a heterotopia are identified. Firstly, as its descriptively most prominent characteristic, the DMZ is considered a borderland between two fiercely antagonistic power politics, a borderland that comes to be realized as fluid and irremovable. Secondly, considering criticisms of this notion of heterotopia to be negligent of real power-knowledge relations, the article suggests that the DMZ as an inaccessible and immobile space controls the mobilities of all other spaces. Lastly, the article proposes that the DMZ be developed into a heterotopic space that mirrors and critically reflects the other prevailing spaces. These characteristics of the heterotopic DMZ, i.e., a fluid and irremovable borderland, an inaccessible and immobile space in power-knowledge relations, and a critically reflecting space, are put under scrutiny with the metaphors of the river, the airport, and the mirror, respectively

The future as rupture: Michel Foucault

2013 ◽  
pp. 313-330
Author(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
John McCumber
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Foucault y Guibert, la palabra y el silencio.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Domingo Fernández Agis
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Passionate Commitment ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Herve Guibert

Cuando Hervé Guibert habla de su relación con Michel Foucault, en las páginas de sus novelas, A l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie y Le protocole compassionnel, está narrando la verdad de su experiencia, la verdad de Foucault como él la ha conocido. Es innegable que esta verdad no es la verdad del mismo Foucault. Guibert narra aquello que, sin  condenar a Foucault, puede facilitarle a él mismo su absolución. Ciertos detalles son quizá bastante crueles, pero nos hacen pensar en la relación muy particular que Foucault ha mantenido con su rica herencia intelectual. Los recelos del filósofo hacia el futuro de su obra nos dicen que era muy consciente del valor de sus contribuciones al pensamiento contemporáneo. Después de haber reflexionado sobre sus vidas y sus obras, se comprende que el compromiso apasionado con la escritura de estas dos personalidades tan creativas, tiene tanta importancia como su compromiso con la vida. TITLE: Foucault, Guibert , the speech and the silenceABSTRACT: When Hervé Guibert talks about his relationship with Michel Foucault, in the pages of his novels, A l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie and Le protocole compassionnel, he is telling the truth of their  experience, the truth of Foucault as he has known it. It is undeniable that this truth is not Foucault’s truth. Guibert tells only that which, without condemning Foucault, can provide his acquittal. Certain details are perhaps rather cruel, but they make us think of the very special relationship that Foucault had with its rich intellectual heritage. The philosopher’s misgivings about the future of his work tell us that he was well aware of the value of their contribution to contemporary thought. He has always wanted to underline its willingness to produce new guidelines to thinking, and he has succeeded. Therefore, he does not want the fruits of their labour from being betrayed, however good the intentions were that they did. After reflecting on their lives and works, it is understood that the passionate commitment of these two very reative characters with their writing, is as important as their commitment to life. 

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