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...Constance Balides Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Foucault in the Fie1 of Ferninism Constance Balides If the intellectual marriage of the 1970s was marxism and feminism, disaffections and preferences shifted in the 1980s to produce a com...

..., in the sense of a regimen for cultivating the self, as Michel Foucault argues in volume 3 of The History of Sexuality . As Foucault makes clear, any care regimen is also an ethos in the classical sense, pertaining to debates about contested meanings and values particular to a community that in turn produce...

..., and internal memos) of women story editors such as Dorothy Hechtlinger, Alice Young, Jacqueline Babbin, and Janet Wood in conjunction with the historical work of David Waterman and Erin Hill, as well as the theoretical model Michel Foucault posits in his essay on the criminal notices of obscure “infamous men...

... on their assumptions about those products' primary users. Michel Foucault's theories of governmentality and disciplinary technologies are also employed to understand how the micropolitics of gendered product design connect with the macropolitics of social control. Building on feminist technology research, this study...

...Dana Polan Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Powers of Vision, Visions of Power Dana Polan Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988...

... systematically excluded or exiled: incommensurable spaces, temporal irreversibility, nonlinear dynamics, logic unruled by the principle of noncontradic- ti~n.~ Foucault through Deleuze, or the Diagrammatics of Power You are still undoubtedly longing for a concrete example of figural expression...

... for the subject and the subject for the text. In our article “On Authorship,” published in Screen along with Foucault’s “What is an Author,” we used Foucault’s analysis of Authorship in literature to explore the operation of Authorship in cinema, developing both the ideas of collective Authorship...

... for attract- ing large audiences. I will argue that the spectacle of the imperilled white nuclear family is crucial to AMWs definition of crime and I will examine how this construction functions, in Foucault’s words, to affirm “that criminality is a constant menace to the social body...

... to take place first? As the editors point out, a theme that links many of the essays in the volume is that of exploring “woman’s active relation to the processes of seeing.” In connection with this, they have rather confusingly evoked Foucault’s description...

... scrutiny, though, it is not clear how Michel Foucault’s architectural diagram of power maps onto present-day Internet diagrams: are network users like Ringley visual or textual, pub- lic or private, spectacular or social artifacts? Bringing theories of subjectivity and media technologies to bear...

... of quotidian life in the age of biopolitics, which is characterized by the practice of biopower that Michel Foucault defines as the “power over life” exercised through the management of human populations.5 In particular, I pay attention to the masochistic qualities of the biopo- litical practices...

... on Judge Judy?  •  187 * Theoretical explorations in post-­9/11 America prompt us to take Michel Foucault’s cue and extend his model of biopolitical con- trol. The (heterosexual) family, we now know, is no longer the sole instrument of “governmentality” wielded...

... Foucault’s specifc insight on nostalgia in his Technologies of the Self, Probyn builds on his counterintuitive reversal of the causal assumptions about nostalgia. Foucault states: All of this beauty of old times is an effect of and not a reason for nostalgia. I know very well that it is our own...

... retrieve hidden knowledge about the Great Famine that they were never allowed to learn in school. The political function of this collective act of knowledge produc- tion is especially important, because these children produced what Foucault calls “subjugated knowledge,” “the historical contents...

... of disenfranchisement — are expected to ‘take responsibility’ for their fate.”17 Ouellette and Hay’s formula- tion leans heavily on Michel Foucault’s treatment of governmental- ity as a political rationality that seeks to administer populations through their inclusion within the productive circuits of (liberal...

... gaze. The final entry is especially significant. I have spent a great deal of time critiquing (but not entirely rejecting) Foucault and what I see as an improper ccFoucauldization”of Lacan by film theory. It is Foucault’s formulation of the positive, performative...

.... First, the “inexpressible” introduces a fun- damental split between speech and thought: language that is mute, cut off from speech and the speaking subject, unspeakable, as Ann Banfield puts it, but present in thought and in writing. This is, as David Rodo- wick writes of Michel Foucault’s...

... demands expressed-and reac- tionary: “(the image) corresponds to a pornographic representation of woman as simply (or perhaps complexly) the object of men’s gaze.” Foucault’s La volonte‘ de savoir (Histoire de la sexualite‘ I, Gallimard, Paris: 1976)is brought in as a valuable example of how...

... have carved up more and more of the world into zones for destruction.7 Likewise, Michel Foucault’s assertion that “it would be wrong to say that the principle of visibility governs all technologies of power used since the nineteenth century” simultaneously demonstrates the commonness...

...: Some Reconsiderations .” Concerned with coordinating concepts drawn from Foucault’s History of Sexuality with an analysis of an individual contemporary film, Nicholas Roeg’s Bad Timing, dc Laurctis first outlined the implications of Foucault’s investigation...