Leonard D’cruz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard D’cruz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | D’cruz |
| SIGNATURE | D’CRUZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1508-1566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The normative stakes of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism
This article critically examines Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions whether neoliberalism is less disciplinary and biopolitically normalizing than traditional forms of liberalism. Although Foucault does not endorse neoliberalism as a prescriptive solution to these problems of normalization, his interest in such proble…
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe
Achille Mbembe presents 'necropolitics' as a corrective to Foucault's conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the deficiencies of Foucault's framework or (b) demarcating necropolitics from biopolitics. In this article, I argue that Mbembe misconstrues Foucault's understanding of the relationship between biop…
Foucault’s naturalism
This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus collapsing into unconstrained relativism and methodological incoherence. These concerns are predicated on a misunderstanding of Foucault’s overall approach, which takes the form of a historico-critical project rather than a normative epistemology…
The Limits of Radical Historicism
Colin Koopman
Everybody knows that Big Data has become a significant political issue, but few of us would be able to make sense of the claim that data is inherently political.If data is political, one would assume this has more to do with what certain actors -governments, corporations and hackers -are now able to do with data than the actual data itself.In How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, Colin Koopman argues that data is not on…
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe
Achille Mbembe presents 'necropolitics' as a corrective to Foucault's conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the deficiencies of Foucault's framework or (b) demarcating necropolitics from biopolitics. In this article, I argue that Mbembe misconstrues Foucault's understanding of the relationship between biop…
Foucault’s naturalism
This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus collapsing into unconstrained relativism and methodological incoherence. These concerns are predicated on a misunderstanding of Foucault’s overall approach, which takes the form of a historico-critical project rather than a normative epistemology…
Colin Koopman
Everybody knows that Big Data has become a significant political issue, but few of us would be able to make sense of the claim that data is inherently political.If data is political, one would assume this has more to do with what certain actors -governments, corporations and hackers -are now able to do with data than the actual data itself.In How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, Colin Koopman argues that data is not on…
Foucault’s naturalism
This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thus collapsing into unconstrained relativism and methodological incoherence. These concerns are predicated on a misunderstanding of Foucault’s overall approach, which takes the form of a historico-critical project rather than a normative epistemology…
The Limits of Radical Historicism
The normative stakes of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism
This article critically examines Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions whether neoliberalism is less disciplinary and biopolitically normalizing than traditional forms of liberalism. Although Foucault does not endorse neoliberalism as a prescriptive solution to these problems of normalization, his interest in such proble…
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe
Achille Mbembe presents 'necropolitics' as a corrective to Foucault's conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the deficiencies of Foucault's framework or (b) demarcating necropolitics from biopolitics. In this article, I argue that Mbembe misconstrues Foucault's understanding of the relationship between biop…
Epistemology (4 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Big Data Technologies and Applications (1 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1 works)