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Michel Foucault: a Marcusean in Structuralist Clothing

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Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification.Diana Stypinska - forthcoming - Theory, Culture and Society.details Taking its cue from Michel Foucault’s analyses of the pastoral ‘conduct of conduct’, this paper considers social media as a specific dispositif that derives its mode of operation from the religious techniques of individualization. It argues that today’s preoccupation with digital performances, far from exorcizing the pastoral logic, in fact manifests its secular intensification. By examining social media practices through the lens of the sacramental paradigm of confession, the article shows how the digitalization of the pastoral directive culminates in the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Plastic eschatology: On the foundations of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology.Robert Grimwade - 2021 - Sage Publications Ltd: Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (8):1140-1173.details Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 8, Page 1140-1173, October 2022. This article explores the complexities of Marcuse’s philosophical anthropology in light of Foucault’s criticisms of Marcuse and the Frankfurt School. While Marcuse’s theory of human nature is grounded upon a dialectical conception of essential human potentialities striving for realization, it secretes a radically plastic conception of life that undermines all anthropological essentialism. This fundamental tension between essentialist and plastic conceptions of human nature has significant implications for rethinking Marcuse’s (...) project and legacy. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark

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