A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present Chow Rey
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability--such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits…
Specifikacia A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present Chow Rey
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability--such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions.Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault's concept "outside." This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and
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