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10Power, Resistance, and FreedomIn Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault, Wiley. 2013.This chapter first outlines some of Foucault' s conceptualizations of forms of power, focusing on discipline and biopower. The first section explores the extent to which Foucault understood modern power relations to be constraining limits, inhospitable to freedom. The second section focuses on some of Foucault's general conceptualizations rather than specific historical analyses of power and resistance. The third section follows Foucault's conceptualization of power relations as more expansive a…Read more
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5Divine Violence, Profane Peace: Walter Benjamin, Rabbis for Human Rights, and Peace in Israel–PalestineTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2020 (192): 41-66. 2020.
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1. IntroductionIn From Kant to Lévi-Strauss the Background to Contemporary Critical Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-16. 2002.
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3From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2002.Aimed at students without philosophical training and who study literary, cultural, social or political theorists engaging with this European intellectual tradition, this textbook is an accessible guide to key figures in "The Tradition of Critique"--Critical post-Enlightenment European thinking.
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36Benjamin’s communist idea: Aestheticized politics, technology, and the rehearsal of revolutionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (1): 43-60. 2016.Recent interest in communism as an idea prompts reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s conception of a “communist” aesthetic politics. In spite of Benjamin’s categorical condemnation of aestheticized politics, his “artwork essay” is better read as both explicit condemnation of a particular type of aestheticized politics and implicit commendation of another type. Under the modern conditions of the technological reproducibility of art, and mass politics, the character of and relationship between the…Read more
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26Eye movements reveal a dissociation between memory encoding and retrieval in adults with autismCognition 159 (C): 127-138. 2017.
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Using Practical Knowledge of the Creative Arts to Foster LearningIn Joy Higgs & Angie Titchen (eds.), Practice Knowledge and Expertise in the Health Professions, Butterworth-heinemann. 2001.
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12Governing the Public: Technologies of Mediation and Popular CultureCultural Values 6 (1-2): 167-181. 2002.Media technologies are an integral and vital element of democratic governance. The political public of representative democratic régimes are mediated publics, in that they exist and are constituted as publics through the mediation of technologies of mass media. The public sphere of democratic politics is part of, and central to, the mediated sphere of popular culture. There is a structural and necessary relation between the popularization of culture and the democratization of politics. A governm…Read more
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21Modernist misapprehensions of Foucault's aestheticsCultural Values 4 (1): 40-57. 2000.Several critics of Foucault, notably Alan Megill and Jürgen Habermas, accuse Foucault of being an ‘aestheticist’. As such, Foucault fails to realise that the very appeal to aesthetics is made possible by modernity's rationalization, which offers better resources for emancipation than dangerous aestheticizations. This paper argues that such criticisms mistakenly deploy only certain modernist notions of aesthetics against Foucault. There are some fair grounds for holding that Foucault does appeal …Read more
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22Democracy is a failure worthy of infinite repetitionCritical Horizons 2 (1): 127-148. 2001.This paper argues that democracy is universalisable as a theory and practice that fails to be identical with itself. Firstly, the paradox that democracy's universality can be put into practice only in particular terms and contexts is discussed. Then four models of democratic universality are presented and assessed: (i) empirical or actual universality; (ii) hybrid universality; (iii) cosmopolitan universality; (iv) impossible universality.The final argument is that democracy can be universalised…Read more
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13Politics and truth: Immanence, practice and constellationsSocial Epistemology 15 (1). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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25Foucault and power: The influence of political engagement on theories of powerContemporary Political Theory 14 (4). 2015.
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