Panopticism is concerned with the idea that in particular institutions and situations it is possible for people to be constantly observed, and be aware of same. Foucault adapted Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison model, where all prisoners could be viewed from one central location of a circular structure without ever knowing if they were actually being viewed at any point. The notion here is th...

This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern political thought was a key player in bringing about this demise. The essay consists of two parts. In Part One, I overview Foucault’s conception of the care of the self and situate it within his later work on ancient...

Historically, analytic philosophy has not been as close to psychiatry as the continental tradition. For instance, no analytic philosopher has produced a treatise as important and comprehensive as Karl Jaspers’s General Psychopathology (Jaspers 1963 [1913]), a work deeply infl uenced by phenomenology. Similarly, no analytic philosopher so far has critically engaged with the practice and history ...

The concept of heterotopia was introduced and immediately abandoned by Michel Foucault in 1966 ^ 67, but it quickly diffused across human geography, urban theory, and cultural studies during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the deserved impact of Foucault's overall work on these fields, there are some conceptual problems with the heterotopia concept. While the desire for a single term to probe spatia...

Philosophy is typically identified with textual practices of reading and writing and oral dialog that have long dominated the genre. But it has also, especially in ancient times, fiercely asserted itself as something other and more than textual exercises. Philosophy claimed to be a comprehensive way of life, an art of living dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom (as the word “philosophia” implies)...

Current developments in information systems (IS) evaluation emphasise stakeholder participation in order to ensure adequate and beneficial IS investments. It is now common to consider evaluation as a subjective process of interpretation(s), in which people’s appreciations are taken into account to guide evaluations. However, the context of power relations in which evaluation takes place, as wel...

Earth’s rotation causes splitting of normal modes. Wave fronts and rays are, however, not affected by Earth’s rotation, as we show theoretically and with observations made with USArray. We derive that the Coriolis force causes a small transverse component for P waves and a small longitudinal component for S waves. More importantly, Earth’s rotation leads to a slow rotation of the transverse pol...

Wiener Library, London). And there were at least some medical "Resistance fighters". This book is certainly an Arbeitsbuch which can help to provoke further research, but in itself it is rather one-sided: the (scarce) attempts at interpretation it offers should especially be read and used with critical caution. But, as far as it goes, it has its merits and deserves wide attention. Alan Sheridan...