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Foucault osluškuje

Author(s): Dalibor Davidović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 3-4/2013

Filozofovo uho kao da se postupno zatvaralo. Glazba bi dopirala, na ovaj ili onaj način, zadržavajući na trenutak njegovu pažnju, ali samo kratkotrajno, postajući ponovno uobičajenim dijelom okolnog svijeta, poput komada pokućstva. Sve dok jednoga dana nije čuo nešto neočekivano, što nije nalikovalo ničemu poznatom. Činilo se poput niza nepovezanih zvučnih događaja: čas glasnih čas tihih, čas ekstremno visokih čas ekstremno niskih, čas dugih čas kratkih. Zvučnih događaja što nisu nalikovali ni pjesmi što nastaje iz veselja ili tuge, ni koncertnom natjecanju dobro ugođenih svirača, ni kakvoj dramskoj sceni u kojoj dolazi do napetosti i popuštanja, nego prije slučajnim udarcima po tipkama klavira, kao kada bi se za instrumentom našlo kakvo jednogodišnje dijete, lupajući amo-tamo – ili možda kakav mačak što skakuće po klavijaturi i ostavlja zvučne tragove. “I to je glazba?", zapitao se filozof, zaokupljen neobičnim zvučnim zbivanjem.

Michel Foucault: The Birth of Biopolitics

Michel Foucault: Rođenje biopolitike

Author(s): Marijan Krivak / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 02/110/2008

Keywords: Michel Foucault; biopolitics; bio-power; society of control; population; guvernmentality;

The article tries to detect the initial appearance of the concept of “biopolitics”. This concept, nowadays usually linked with philosophical position of Giorgio Agamben (Homo sacer), first came to an attention by Michel Foucault. His diagnosis in the seventies of the past century was that the power of the scientific-technological production of life created a period of biopolitics. For Foucault, biopolitics is the entrance of life and its mechanisms into the area of conscious calculation and regulation of power that is the knowledge of all the agents of change in a person’s life. The population becomes the subject of political interventions (statistics, control) already by the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. In alliance with the standard institutions of the disciplinary order – economics, politics, and the military – the constant framework of biopolitics is the population. With regards to the category of life as the matrix of sociability, here we have the foundation of what is later to be formed into »biopolitical theory«.

Foucault and the Problem of Kant

Foucault and the Problem of Kant

Author(s): Nicholas T. Parsons / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/1988

THE IDEOLOGY TO MICHEL FOUCAULT

IDEOLOGIA LA MICHEL FOUCAULT

Author(s): Armin Dogaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2003

De la început ne putem întreba dacă există o problemă a ideologiei la Foucault. Constituie aceasta o problemă asupra căreia să se fi îndreptat filosoful? Fără să răspundem la această întrebare, am putea să spunem că ar exista o problemă a ideologiei chiar dacă şi, poate, mai ales dacă, aceasta nu ar apărea în mod manifest în nici una dintre scrierile sale. În acest caz, reformulată, întrebarea ar fi de ce nu există o problemă a ideologiei la Foucault? De ce refuză Foucault să utilizeze această noţiune? Anticipînd asupra a ceea ce vom spune mai departe, am putea să afirmăm că ideologia devine o problemă atunci cînd încercăm să-l înţelegem pe Foucault tocmai prin aceea că el renunţă să se folosească de această noţiune considerînd-o drept inadecvată; dar asta înseamnă totodată şi că Foucault nu a ignorat cu desăvîrşire problema ideologiei.

Buraj, Ivan: Foucault and Power

Buraj, Ivan: Foucault a moc

Author(s): Ján Sopóci / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2001

Foucault's Radical Politics

Foucault's Radical Politics

Author(s): Stephen David Ross / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/1985

Remember Foucault, forget Foucault.

Pamiętać Foucaulta, zapomnieć Foucaulta.

Author(s): Magdalena Nowicka,Małgorzata Jacyno / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Michel Foucault

Foucault as the Pharmakon

Michel Foucault jako farmakon

Author(s): Marcin Maria Bogusławski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Norms; Heteronormativity; Performativity; Normalization; Queer; Subjective Identification

In my article, I will try to find an answer to a question: Is Michel Foucault’s oeuvre still up to date or has it become one of the respected but foregone relics of humanities? I would inscribe Foucault’s thought into the “logic of pharmakon,” that is, a means being, at the same time, both a poison and a cure. I will show, polemically to Ewa Domańska, that Foucault’s thought remains valid nowadays. It allows us to question the subjectivity, status of norms, and normalization in such manner that we can perceive, on the one hand, mechanisms of power and knowledge and, on the other hand, we can give an account of subjects’ autonomy and self-determination, including their impact on norms at work in society.

Foucault and Literature

Foucault i književnost

Author(s): Tomislav Brlek,Bernard Koludrović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 4/2015

Keywords: Foucault; literariness; transgression; discourse; author

Even though the name of Michel Foucault is very often evoked in literary studies, his numerous works on the subject of literature have remained outside of the horizon of interest in literary theory. In fact, his work is regularly recruited for the schools of thought bent on overcoming the so-called textualist bias. Reading Foucault’s essays on writers such as Bataille, Klossowski, de Sade, Roussel, and Blanchot, as well as on theoretical notion of the author, the paper attempts to establish a working framework for what might be termed Foucault’s thinking of the literary as it refracts through three key concepts: transgression, the experience of language, and the author function. The aim is to show that such a concept of modern literature could be of significant heuristic value as it is in direct contradiction to the epistemological, conceptual, and interpretive models habitually used in theoretical and critical approaches replete with references to the work of Michel Foucault.

Foucault on humane knowledge

Foucault mbi dijet humane

Author(s): Blerim Latifi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 1/2013

Edhe pse Foucault gjithmonë ka refuzuar pozat e një mendimtari që parasheh të ardhmen dhe ato të rrëfyesit të tregimeve të mëdha universaliste, tendenca e shndërrimit të shoqërisë moderne në një shoqëri të panoptizuar, duket të jetë shumë herë më e pranishme sot sesa disa dekada më herët kur u artikulua nga Foucault dhe kjo falë zhvillimeve, të paimagjinueshme më parë, të shkencës dhe teknologjisë.

Michel Foucault: New Problematizations

Michel Foucault: New Problematizations

Author(s): Antoinette Koleva,Kolyo Koev / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4 EN/2016

Keywords: Foucault

Foucault on Power and Government

Foucault on Power and Government

Author(s): Paul Patton / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4 EN/2016

Keywords: Power; government; governmentality; relation of force; action upon the actions of others; neoliberalism

This paper examines the transformation in Foucault’s conception of power that began in 1976 and concluded with his definition of power as action on the action of others in 1982. His 1976 lectures raise series of questions about the nature of power: what is power? How is it exercised? Is it ultimately a relation of force? Only some of these questions are answered in the course of these lectures. Foucault's answer to the question about the nature of power and the appropriate means to analyze it is not forthcoming until 'The Subject and Power' in 1982. I argue that the new definition of power offered reflects the discovery of governmentality in 1978 and the lectures on liberal and neoliberal governmentality that followed. I conclude with some remarks about the consequences of this new conception of power for Foucault's approach and for his analysis of neoliberal governmental power.

Michel Foucault and Christianity

Michel Foucault i chrześcijaństwo

Author(s): Camille de Villeneuve / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 758-759/2018

FOUCAULT AND SPACE

FOUCAULT AND SPACE

Author(s): Miloje Grbin / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: Michel Foucault; Space; Heterotopia; Society; Social Practice;

This work presents summarized analyses of Foucault’s understanding of space, noted by West-Pavlov and Zieleniec, and provides further elaboration. The subject of analysis is Foucault’s identification of the role of space in generation of scientific knowledge and articulation and implementation of power/knowledge, as well as his concept of heterotopia. This work calls on West-Pavlov and Zieleniec’s fundamental positions and provides overview of Foucault’s positions regarding space and society, and contributes with further analysis and elaboration.

GRAMMAR AND POWER IN WITTGENSTEIN AND FOUCAULT

GRAMMAR AND POWER IN WITTGENSTEIN AND FOUCAULT

Author(s): Yusuf ÖZ / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2019

Keywords: language games; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Michel Foucault; political philosophy; subjectivity;

Foucault criticizes modern discourses on power such as Marxism, Freudianism, and liberalism in which power is understood as a repressive negative force that radiates from modern political institutions to the whole society from above. For him, modern power, with the involvement of the discourses of the humanities, sustains and maintains itself by producing subjectivities and the modern subject is simultaneously an object of knowledge and of domination. There are philosophically significant similarities between the ways Wittgenstein describes language games and grammar as formative elements of our sociality and Foucault’s understanding of power as a productive and dynamic grid of strategic formative relations. From this perspective, Peter Winch’s and David Bloor’s accounts of social constructive interpretations of Wittgenstein are analyzed and criticized, then a Wittgensteinian interpretation of the concepts of the crime and the criminal is presented on the basis of Arnold I. Davidson’s and Ian Hacking’s arguments on historical ontology.

On Pleasure in Later Foucault

Die Lust beim späten Foucault

Author(s): Giuliana Gregorio / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: Foucault; subject; pleasure; desire; sexuality; Ancient Greece;

In the general context of Foucault’s genealogy of the modern subject, his reflections about pleasure are especially relevant. That is because he reconsiders from the radical perspective of the essential and controversial relationship between pleasure, desire, and truth the whole history of the Western civilization, starting with Ancient Greece. This essay puts into question Foucault’s search for a new and different “economy of bodies and pleasures”. If, on the one hand, the French thinker emphasizes the ethical-political valence of the “use of pleasure” (and above all, its emancipatory potential regarding the subjection/subjectivation dialectics), on the other hand, he seems to remain torn by an unresolved tension between an ‘ascetic’ tendency and the seduction of dissipative drifts.

Foucault, even after Foucault

Foucault, még Foucault után

Author(s): András A. Gergely / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2020

Blandine Kriegel (2007): Michel Foucault ma. Holnap Kiadó, Budapest. 93 p. Takács Ádám (2018): Az idő nyomai. Michel Foucault és a történelem problémája. Kijárat Kiadó, Budapest, 183 p.

Ricoeur and Foucault on Tragedy and Truth

Ricoeur and Foucault on Tragedy and Truth

Author(s): Carlos Garduño Comparán / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Paul Ricoeur; Michel Foucault; tragedy; truth;knowledge;

The purpose of this text is to confront some Paul Ricoeur’s and Michel Foucault’s significant reflections on Greek tragedy, in order to discuss their interpretation of its truth and the knowledge it makes possible. Ricoeur supposes that tragedy implies a theology that, though it is not explicitly developed, points to the knowledge of the self, his conflicts with others, and even to a possible redemption. For his part, Foucault determines that in tragedies a set of discourses opposing against each other is at stake, without the possibility of overcoming their conflict in a higher knowledge. Does tragedy allows knowledge through the spectacle and the emotions aroused? Is the truth of tragedy manifested in the confrontation and intensification of passions, but cannot be developed as knowledge of the self and his reconciliation with others?

THE FOUCAULT EFFECT IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

THE FOUCAULT EFFECT IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Dušan Ristić,Dušan Marinković / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Foucault; genealogy; knowledge; power; sociology of knowledge

This research proposes that Foucault’s concepts of power/knowledge and genealogy constitute a significant turning point, not only in philosophical and historical terms but also in the research framework of the sociology of knowledge. The first level of Foucault’s contribution to the sociology of knowledge is widely recognized through the concept of discourse and its dimensions of materiality, power and knowledge. The second level is the analytical grid of power/knowledge itself, which focuses on the relays established between them. The third level, which we consider a crucial area open to further interpretation, is the concept of the history of the present. Although Foucault’s contribution has already been acknowledged in contemporary sociological research of knowledge, our objective is to expand on this recognition by highlighting the significance of genealogy’s dimensions to existing approaches, namely the historical sociology of knowledge and sociology of knowledge approach to discourse.

Écrasez Foucault?

Écrasez Foucault?

Author(s): Krešimir Petković / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 01/2023

Keywords: Book review; Écrasez Foucault?; Conformism of Radical Thought;

Review of: Écrasez Foucault? David Šporer, Konformizam radikalne misli: Kritički historijat metodoloških i političkih pozicija Michela Foucaulta, Disput, Zagreb, 2023., 356 str.