#governmentality — Public Fediverse posts

My contribution interprets Foucault's recurrent post-1970 reflections on the appropriate method for analysing power relations on the basis of two archival documents: a reading note on Erich Ludendorff's 'Der totale Krieg' and a manuscript in which Foucault discusses his concept of 'governmentality'. I use the Ludendorff note to propose that his method for analysing power relations from the first half of the 1970s, whose basic assumption is that power relations are warlike in essence, may not immediately be derived from a reading of Nietzsche but from a projection of Ludendorff's ideas onto Nietzsche's work. The note on 'governmentality' is used to argue that despite a very significant post-1976 revision of his method for analysing power, Foucault retained the notion that politics is warfare, this time leaning on Carl Schmitt's political theory.

I finished writing this article in early 2024. I am very glad that it has finally seen the light of day, and in such an overall impressive issue of Foucault Studies at that.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/974018

#Foucault #power #war, #governmentality #Nietzsche #histodons #history #PoliticalTheory #HistoryofIdeas

My contribution interprets Foucault's recurrent post-1970 reflections on the appropriate method for analysing power relations on the basis of two archival documents: a reading note on Erich Ludendorff's 'Der totale Krieg' and a manuscript in which Foucault discusses his concept of 'governmentality'. I use the Ludendorff note to propose that his method for analysing power relations from the first half of the 1970s, whose basic assumption is that power relations are warlike in essence, may not immediately be derived from a reading of Nietzsche but from a projection of Ludendorff's ideas onto Nietzsche's work. The note on 'governmentality' is used to argue that despite a very significant post-1976 revision of his method for analysing power, Foucault retained the notion that politics is warfare, this time leaning on Carl Schmitt's political theory.

I finished writing this article in early 2024. I am very glad that it has finally seen the light of day, and in such an overall impressive issue of Foucault Studies at that.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/974018

#Foucault #power #war, #governmentality #Nietzsche #histodons #history #PoliticalTheory #HistoryofIdeas

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

OnlineFirst - "Reading in the dark: Shifting governmentalities and the spatial dimensions of legible U.S. flood risk" by Troy Brundidge:

#hydraulicfloodmodeling #governmentality #risk #politicaleconomy #dimensionality

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X241232528

OnlineFirst - "Reading in the dark: Shifting governmentalities and the spatial dimensions of legible U.S. flood risk" by Troy Brundidge:

#hydraulicfloodmodeling #governmentality #risk #politicaleconomy #dimensionality

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X241232528

OnlineFirst - "The influence of climate resilience governmentality on vulnerability in regional Australia" by Guy Jackson:

#climatechange #climateresilience #governmentality #Australia #climatejustice #climatevulnerability

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241226919

My latest study (just out!) is “Legacies of #Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of #State Power”, published in the Journal of #FamilyHistory. The paper uses ideas from #Foucault (#governmentality), #Scott, & #Tilly to assess the risks of genealogy #research that relies upon state #records (e.g., #census, #BMD, etc.) which were created for the purposes of state-formation. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:60111/

So grateful that the Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions invited me to join their panel last night on Population Health. I got to talk about Benedict Anderson and how the concept of population inherently asks questions about #governmentality and #biopolitics. Then we used #Dickens’s Bleak House for an example. #MedHums #MedicalHumanities

It is my great honour to formally join the University of Sheffield Urban Institute as an associate member. I will be part of the Urban Automation and Robotics theme group, working with colleagues on research streams of #urbanautomation #urbanrobotics #smartcities #smarturbanism #platformurbanism #urbantechnology #governmentality Find our space, people and research from https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute

Hi! A short #introduction: research on parallel tracks of medical #anthropology plus interdisciplinary study of #disasters.

#embodiment #ritual #gender #midwifery #tsunami #DVI #governmentality #biopolitics #necropolitics #demography #volcanoes #risk

Recent focus during the #covid19 #pandemic via #art and #netnography on the #Amabie phenomenon in #Japan and globally. Academia needs to take #creativity seriously.

Previous roots in classic music and fine arts.

#futurehistories #podcast

S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Biocommunism, #Dyer-Witheford, #Commonism, #Platforms, #Biocommie, #HelenHester, #NickSrnicek, #AlexWilliams, #Accelerationism, #Ecosocialism, #Rationing, #PowerandCatastrophe, #Capitalism, #AaronBenanav, #Postcapitalism, #Polycrisis, #EconomicPlanning, #Crisis, #Capital, #Rationing, #Hegemony, #Governmentality, #Foucault, #RadicalTransformation, #SocialTransformation, #Democracy, #Socialism, #DesasterCapitalism, #PoliticalEconomy, #Scarcity, #Communism


https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e26-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/

#futurehistories #podcast

S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Biocommunism, #Dyer-Witheford, #Commonism, #Platforms, #Biocommie, #HelenHester, #NickSrnicek, #AlexWilliams, #Accelerationism, #Ecosocialism, #Rationing, #PowerandCatastrophe, #Capitalism, #AaronBenanav, #Postcapitalism, #Polycrisis, #EconomicPlanning, #Crisis, #Capital, #Rationing, #Hegemony, #Governmentality, #Foucault, #RadicalTransformation, #SocialTransformation, #Democracy, #Socialism, #DesasterCapitalism, #PoliticalEconomy, #Scarcity, #Communism


https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s02e26-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/