The following is the first of a two-part series. “The social technologies we see in use today are fundamentally panoptical – the architecture of participation is inherently an architecture of
Tag: Michel Foucault
“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)
The following is the first in a series of “book interviews” (as opposed to book “reviews”) which the The New Polis will be undertaking with certain recent authors. The first
Neoliberalism And The Cultural Politics Of Shame (Samantha Pinson Wrisley)
Shame as an affect, an emotion, or a feeling serves a critical purpose in the construction and maintenance of hegemonic power relations. Sara Ahmed defines it in her book The
Terror And Performance – Asymmetric Warfare, Martyrdom, And Necropolitics (Axelle Van Wynsberghe)
[The Fourth World War is] a fractal war of all cells, all singularities, revolting in the form of antibodies. A confrontation so impossible to pin down that the idea of
The Catastrophe Of Thought – Political Theology, Political Spirituality, And The Courage Of Truth, Part 2 (Michael Dillon)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. There is, however, a difficulty manifest in all thought. It is one that afflicts
The Catastrophe Of Thought – Political Theology, Political Spirituality, And The Courage Of Truth, Part 1 (Michael Dillon)
The following is the first of a two-part series. As this clip from the 7th Edition of The World Economic Forum (Davos) Global Risks Report 2012 illustrates, the event as
How “Progressive” Is Identity Politics – Really? (Carl Raschke)
The language of identity has at long last come into its own as the a true lingua franca within the universe of progressivist political discourse, even though it is shot
Expanding the Rhetorical, Genealogical, and New Materialist Implications of Joshua Ramey’s The Politics of Divination (Joshua Hanan)
The following is part of a series of responses to Joshua Ramey’s book, Politics of Divination. You can read our interview with Ramey here. You can read Carl Raschke’s response
Prophets In Spite Of Themselves – Foucault And Baldwin On Truth And Innocence (Corey McCall)
Recently scholars have begun to consider various ways that the work of Michel Foucault and James Baldwin might converge. Typically, comparisons between the two writers have been staged on the
From The Sexual Revolution To The Politics Of Recognition – The Legacy Of May 1968 (Carl Raschke)
May 1968 was known in France as l’eventement, or “the event.” It was compared to the French uprisings of 1789, 1830, 1849, and 1871 when governments dissolved and new “republics”