{"title":"The Foucauldian Subject and Neoliberalism as Critique of Power","authors":"Zoe Panagiota Nigianni","doi":"10.16995/gc.8760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.8760","url":null,"abstract":"Taking as my starting pointFoucault’s view (1978a; 1997 [1978b]) that a critique of power rests in whatFoucault calls an analytical philosophy of politics, I outline Foucault’s account ofneoliberalism as a response to Foucault’s predominant philosophical question ofpower (1982) and a formulation of the Foucauldian critique of power. I arguethat, in his account of neoliberalism examined in view of the concept ofgovernmentality (Foucault 1978a; 1982; 1997 [1978b]; 2002b [1978c]), despitehis criticisms, Foucault (1982, 1997 [1978b]) supports, though notexplicitly, neoliberalism as critique of power. I conclude that the Foucauldiannotion of the subject addresses effects of disperse power relations andsubjection processes acted upon agents, to endorse, to an extend, neoliberalismas critique and counterargument to power.In arguing this, examples of discourses illustrating aspectsof my argument are introduced to highlight the contemporary significance of Foucault’saccount of neoliberalism. ","PeriodicalId":221257,"journal":{"name":"Genealogy+Critique","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122836215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional (Tech) Support: Sexualised Care Work and Robotic Sexualities","authors":"Constanze Erhard","doi":"10.16995/gc.7990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.7990","url":null,"abstract":"AI-equipped sexbots are framed as 'perfect companions'. However, the question arises as to what kind of companionship the conception and consumption of these sexbots entails. This article explores the structural position of sexbots and the specific concepts of sexuality, intimacy and care connected to it. It argues that sexbots are providers of sexualised care work, a convergence that needs to be understood in the broader analysis of sexuality and care in post-industrial theories of sexuality. Through its promise of sexual fulfilment, emotional support and care, the sexbot enforces masculinities and does therefore not represent a posthumanist project (at the moment).","PeriodicalId":221257,"journal":{"name":"Genealogy+Critique","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125365557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Posthumane Selbstformungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur am Beispiel von Olga Flors Ich in Gelb","authors":"Lisa Keil","doi":"10.16995/gc.7987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.7987","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the intersections between technologies of the self, posthumanism, and gender by means of a literary analysis of Olga Flor's 2015 novel Ich in Gelb. A reading of the novel shows how Flor discusses the immunotherapy practice of helminthic therapy in connection with different 'monsters' like Medusa, bearded women, and mermaids, motifs that carry certain gender representations. However, the novel not only plays on old representations but also deconstructs traditional gender divisions and dissolves the illusion of a fixed self in employing posthumanist ideas. Applying Haraway's concept of sympoiesis in the analysis of the relationship between human and worm as well as between text and worm, the examination of Flor's novel shows that there is a correspondence between the 'forming' of the self and the literary form of the novel. Therefore, literature has an epistemological function in understanding posthuman technologies of the self.","PeriodicalId":221257,"journal":{"name":"Genealogy+Critique","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116404611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}