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Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault's archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, wh... more Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault's archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may have disagreed with the writings of the classical political economists but he widens our perspective through new possibilities of understanding. It is very illuminating to understand Smith's thinking as following a discursive practice that economic thought shared with the knowledge of living beings (natural history) and language (grammar). Foucault's archaeology highlights some ontological and epistemological conditions that shed light on some of the pillars of Smith's thinking: the centrality of exchange, the division of labour and the labour theory of value. The proximity between Newton and Smith is also examined in ontological and epistemological terms which can be understood through an investigation of that interdiscursivity practice. Beyond testing Foucault's considerations, our aim is to demonstrate their potential for the current scholarship of Smith's works. Foucault's archaeology of knowledge offers a range of elements that warrants greater analysis by historians of economic thought.
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This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in construct... more This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in constructing new technologies of power. Michel Foucault drew attention to a change that political economists promoted concerning the role of the state, which has been overlooked by historians of economic thought. This paper explores the main arguments provided by the most important British political economists of the 18th and 19th centuries on what concerns population management, State's role and economic dynamics in order to examine Foucault's considerations. Although British classical political economy consolidated the mechanism of markets and economic individuality, thus creating a system of truth that changed economic norms and practices, its discourse also established a political conduct that was responsible for creating mechanisms of control that disseminated new forms of power relations.
JEL classification: A12; B12
Keywords: British classical political economy; Genealogy of power; Liberal art of government; Biopolitics
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This study provides a critical analysis of the strategic role played by British classical politic... more This study provides a critical analysis of the strategic role played by British classical political economy in the construction of a new power technology – biopolitics – according to Michel Foucault’s genealogy. For that, a true Foucauldian genealogy of classical political economy was required in two main aspects. First of all, it analyzed genealogically the emergence and consolidation of the 18th and 19th century economic liberalism from its political and philosophical foundations, emphasizing its origins, continuities and discontinuities. Secondly, it assumed Foucault’s genealogical arguments towards the relations created between the emergence of political economy and the structural changes of the State’s power as true, what led to biopolitics. The assumption of Foucault’s genealogical method and argument was required to provide an original philosophical approach to the history of economic thought in terms of power strategies. As a consequence, British classical political economy was taken not simply as a discourse, but as a set of political practices that successfully led to new power relations through the ideas of economic liberty, self-interest and limitation of State’s action. It has been made a rereading of the main arguments provided by 18th and 19th centuries British political economists since its transition from the mercantilist doctrine until its accepted ideas on human nature, population, State’s role and economic elements. For a more precise delimitation, these thinkers will be divided in two main generations: first, the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century will gather Adam Smith, David Hume and Adam Ferguson. Secondly, the English tradition of the 19th century will focus on Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo as the icons of their time. Finally, it’s been presented a critical reading of the British thinkers’ ideas based on Foucault’s arguments, emphasizing the emergence of a liberal art of government and consolidation of bioeconomic analysis and biopolitical practices, which created new power relations that led to population’s control, regulation and normalization. Not only political economy led to new forms of practical power, but it also provided a unique analysis, bioeconomics, which could rationalize and design new forms of control and regulation of the population. Therefore, it is assumed that bioeconomics influenced on the birth of biopolitics and on the use of security apparatus through which biopolitics has consolidated.
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Books by Danielle Guizzo
How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How h... more How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology and Technology provides insights into such questions relating to public self-awareness regarding technology.The concerns addressed in this book apply to a large and diverse audience including, but not limited to, those interested in social epistemology, technology, cultural studies, trans-humanism, augmented subjectivity, futurology, human sciences, social sciences, political sciences, communication, psychology, science and technology studies, and philosophy. This is the first book of its kind to focus solely on technology and its socially specific epistemological themes. It offers insight into public self-awareness regarding technology by providing an understanding of persons in relation to the technological changes that have occurred, and continue to occur, across the societies they people.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Publicizing the Social Effects of Technological Mediation, Frank Scalambrino / Part I: Normative Dimensions of Technological Mediation and Public Self-Awareness / 1. The Place of Value in a World of Information: Prolegomena to Any Marx 2.0, Steve Fuller / 2. Technological Systems and Genuine Public Interests, Hans Radder / 3. The End of Trust in the Age of Big Data?, Daniel J. Brunson / 4. Filter Bubbles and the Public Use of Reason: Applying Epistemology to the Newsfeed, Jamie Carlin Watson / 5. Technology, Extended Mind, and Hegel’s Historical Man, Patrick J. Reider / 6. Existential Privacy and the Technological Situation of Boundary Regulation, Elize de Mul / 7. Critical Media: Media Archeology as Critical Theory, Stephen M. Bourque / 8. Speculative Ethics and Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technology: A Case for “Un-disciplined” Philosophy of Technology, William Davis / 9. What Control? Life at the Limits of Power Expression, Frank Scalambrino / Part II: Exploring Changing Conceptions of Humans and Humanity / 10. Heidegger on the Question Concerning Technology & Gelassenheit, Charles Bambach / 11. How Learning to Read and Write Shapes Humanity: A Technosomatic Perspective on Digitization, Joris Vlieghe / 12. Labor and Technology: Kant, Marx, and the Critique of Instrumental Reason, Arthur Kok / 13. The Biopolitics of the Female: Constituting Gendered Subjects through Technology, Danielle Guizzo / 14. Phenomenology of Radiology: Intentional Analysis in the Constitution of Diagnostic Judgment, Mindaugas Briedis / 15. Absent to Those Present: The Conflict between Connectivity and Communion, Chad Engelland / 16. Recognizing the Face and Facial Recognition, Levi Checketts / 17. Situated Mediation and Technological Reflexivity: Smartphones, Extended Memory, and Limits of Cognitive Enhancement, Christopher Drain and Richard Charles Strong / 18. The Vanishing Subject: Becoming Who you Cybernetically Are, Frank Scalambrino / About the Contributors / Index
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Thesis Chapters by Danielle Guizzo
The economic origins and sociopolitical impacts of what became known as “Keynesian Economics” hav... more The economic origins and sociopolitical impacts of what became known as “Keynesian Economics” have not received substantial attention from economists, political scientists and philosophers about its mode of governance. This study explores the rise and consolidation of Keynesianism as a mode of governance responsible for creating collective forms of power relations in the postwar world, investigating the possible effects of economic ideas once they reach the political arena. Specifically, we apply a “political economy of power” (PEP) framework to understand the emergence of Keynes’s economic theory and its transformation into a policy agenda that had specific consequences in terms of power, governance and regulation of the economy and the population. While Chapters 1 and 2 respectively promote a bibliographical reading of Michel Foucault’s genealogy of power and John Maynard Keynes’s economic, philosophical and political foundations, Chapter 3 introduces a historical investigation based on primary sources and official documents about the absorption and acceptance of the Keynesian economic theory in Postwar’s economic policies. Our Political Economy of Power (PEP) framework developed throughout Chapter 4 deploys a dual-historical approach, combining institutional and genealogical aspects to analyze the transformation of Keynesianism into a policy agenda between the end of the 1930s and beginning of 1970s across Western Europe and the United States. Our conclusions are buttressed by the epistemological and political shift caused by Keynesianism as a political paradigm, or a “governmentality”. The Keynesian mode of governance was successful in bringing economistic principles and economic technicality into life, thus affecting the ways populations are governed. Consequently, technical economic instruments and welfare systems were actually a technical-scientific justification of intervention via a discourse of power that defended stability, economic growth and welfare. Once Keynesianism established itself as a mode of governance we see the rise of a security society in which policies involving full employment, demand management, economic stability and social security point out towards new forms of control and regulation in the shape of a security pact between the state and the population. Parallel to that, we also invite the reader to return to our original intellectuals – Foucault and Keynes – to shed light on the issue of economic activity as a teleological end of human life. By exploring their ethical writings we stress how economics should be reviewed and reconsidered as a means to achieve an ethical end: the good life. Such trajectory, in Foucault’s rationale, becomes a form of self-government in which the individual transforms himself/herself within the economy and understands economic activity as a means of action – rather than an end.
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Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault's archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, wh... more Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault's archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may have disagreed with the writings of the classical political economists but he widens our perspective through new possibilities of understanding. It is very illuminating to understand Smith's thinking as following a discursive practice that economic thought shared with the knowledge of living beings (natural history) and language (grammar). Foucault's archaeology highlights some ontological and epistemological conditions that shed light on some of the pillars of Smith's thinking: the centrality of exchange, the division of labour and the labour theory of value. The proximity between Newton and Smith is also examined in ontological and epistemological terms which can be understood through an investigation of that interdiscursivity practice. Beyond testing Foucault's considerations, our aim is to demonstrate their potential for the current scholarship of Smith's works. Foucault's archaeology of knowledge offers a range of elements that warrants greater analysis by historians of economic thought.
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This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in construct... more This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in constructing new technologies of power. Michel Foucault drew attention to a change that political economists promoted concerning the role of the state, which has been overlooked by historians of economic thought. This paper explores the main arguments provided by the most important British political economists of the 18th and 19th centuries on what concerns population management, State's role and economic dynamics in order to examine Foucault's considerations. Although British classical political economy consolidated the mechanism of markets and economic individuality, thus creating a system of truth that changed economic norms and practices, its discourse also established a political conduct that was responsible for creating mechanisms of control that disseminated new forms of power relations.
JEL classification: A12; B12
Keywords: British classical political economy; Genealogy of power; Liberal art of government; Biopolitics
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This study provides a critical analysis of the strategic role played by British classical politic... more This study provides a critical analysis of the strategic role played by British classical political economy in the construction of a new power technology – biopolitics – according to Michel Foucault’s genealogy. For that, a true Foucauldian genealogy of classical political economy was required in two main aspects. First of all, it analyzed genealogically the emergence and consolidation of the 18th and 19th century economic liberalism from its political and philosophical foundations, emphasizing its origins, continuities and discontinuities. Secondly, it assumed Foucault’s genealogical arguments towards the relations created between the emergence of political economy and the structural changes of the State’s power as true, what led to biopolitics. The assumption of Foucault’s genealogical method and argument was required to provide an original philosophical approach to the history of economic thought in terms of power strategies. As a consequence, British classical political economy was taken not simply as a discourse, but as a set of political practices that successfully led to new power relations through the ideas of economic liberty, self-interest and limitation of State’s action. It has been made a rereading of the main arguments provided by 18th and 19th centuries British political economists since its transition from the mercantilist doctrine until its accepted ideas on human nature, population, State’s role and economic elements. For a more precise delimitation, these thinkers will be divided in two main generations: first, the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century will gather Adam Smith, David Hume and Adam Ferguson. Secondly, the English tradition of the 19th century will focus on Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo as the icons of their time. Finally, it’s been presented a critical reading of the British thinkers’ ideas based on Foucault’s arguments, emphasizing the emergence of a liberal art of government and consolidation of bioeconomic analysis and biopolitical practices, which created new power relations that led to population’s control, regulation and normalization. Not only political economy led to new forms of practical power, but it also provided a unique analysis, bioeconomics, which could rationalize and design new forms of control and regulation of the population. Therefore, it is assumed that bioeconomics influenced on the birth of biopolitics and on the use of security apparatus through which biopolitics has consolidated.
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*Paper presented at 4th European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Latin Americ... more *Paper presented at 4th European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Latin American Conference (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2014).
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Revista Unifamma, vol. 11, nº 1, 2012.
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How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How h... more How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology and Technology provides insights into such questions relating to public self-awareness regarding technology.The concerns addressed in this book apply to a large and diverse audience including, but not limited to, those interested in social epistemology, technology, cultural studies, trans-humanism, augmented subjectivity, futurology, human sciences, social sciences, political sciences, communication, psychology, science and technology studies, and philosophy. This is the first book of its kind to focus solely on technology and its socially specific epistemological themes. It offers insight into public self-awareness regarding technology by providing an understanding of persons in relation to the technological changes that have occurred, and continue to occur, across the societies they people.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Publicizing the Social Effects of Technological Mediation, Frank Scalambrino / Part I: Normative Dimensions of Technological Mediation and Public Self-Awareness / 1. The Place of Value in a World of Information: Prolegomena to Any Marx 2.0, Steve Fuller / 2. Technological Systems and Genuine Public Interests, Hans Radder / 3. The End of Trust in the Age of Big Data?, Daniel J. Brunson / 4. Filter Bubbles and the Public Use of Reason: Applying Epistemology to the Newsfeed, Jamie Carlin Watson / 5. Technology, Extended Mind, and Hegel’s Historical Man, Patrick J. Reider / 6. Existential Privacy and the Technological Situation of Boundary Regulation, Elize de Mul / 7. Critical Media: Media Archeology as Critical Theory, Stephen M. Bourque / 8. Speculative Ethics and Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technology: A Case for “Un-disciplined” Philosophy of Technology, William Davis / 9. What Control? Life at the Limits of Power Expression, Frank Scalambrino / Part II: Exploring Changing Conceptions of Humans and Humanity / 10. Heidegger on the Question Concerning Technology & Gelassenheit, Charles Bambach / 11. How Learning to Read and Write Shapes Humanity: A Technosomatic Perspective on Digitization, Joris Vlieghe / 12. Labor and Technology: Kant, Marx, and the Critique of Instrumental Reason, Arthur Kok / 13. The Biopolitics of the Female: Constituting Gendered Subjects through Technology, Danielle Guizzo / 14. Phenomenology of Radiology: Intentional Analysis in the Constitution of Diagnostic Judgment, Mindaugas Briedis / 15. Absent to Those Present: The Conflict between Connectivity and Communion, Chad Engelland / 16. Recognizing the Face and Facial Recognition, Levi Checketts / 17. Situated Mediation and Technological Reflexivity: Smartphones, Extended Memory, and Limits of Cognitive Enhancement, Christopher Drain and Richard Charles Strong / 18. The Vanishing Subject: Becoming Who you Cybernetically Are, Frank Scalambrino / About the Contributors / Index
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The economic origins and sociopolitical impacts of what became known as “Keynesian Economics” hav... more The economic origins and sociopolitical impacts of what became known as “Keynesian Economics” have not received substantial attention from economists, political scientists and philosophers about its mode of governance. This study explores the rise and consolidation of Keynesianism as a mode of governance responsible for creating collective forms of power relations in the postwar world, investigating the possible effects of economic ideas once they reach the political arena. Specifically, we apply a “political economy of power” (PEP) framework to understand the emergence of Keynes’s economic theory and its transformation into a policy agenda that had specific consequences in terms of power, governance and regulation of the economy and the population. While Chapters 1 and 2 respectively promote a bibliographical reading of Michel Foucault’s genealogy of power and John Maynard Keynes’s economic, philosophical and political foundations, Chapter 3 introduces a historical investigation based on primary sources and official documents about the absorption and acceptance of the Keynesian economic theory in Postwar’s economic policies. Our Political Economy of Power (PEP) framework developed throughout Chapter 4 deploys a dual-historical approach, combining institutional and genealogical aspects to analyze the transformation of Keynesianism into a policy agenda between the end of the 1930s and beginning of 1970s across Western Europe and the United States. Our conclusions are buttressed by the epistemological and political shift caused by Keynesianism as a political paradigm, or a “governmentality”. The Keynesian mode of governance was successful in bringing economistic principles and economic technicality into life, thus affecting the ways populations are governed. Consequently, technical economic instruments and welfare systems were actually a technical-scientific justification of intervention via a discourse of power that defended stability, economic growth and welfare. Once Keynesianism established itself as a mode of governance we see the rise of a security society in which policies involving full employment, demand management, economic stability and social security point out towards new forms of control and regulation in the shape of a security pact between the state and the population. Parallel to that, we also invite the reader to return to our original intellectuals – Foucault and Keynes – to shed light on the issue of economic activity as a teleological end of human life. By exploring their ethical writings we stress how economics should be reviewed and reconsidered as a means to achieve an ethical end: the good life. Such trajectory, in Foucault’s rationale, becomes a form of self-government in which the individual transforms himself/herself within the economy and understands economic activity as a means of action – rather than an end.
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