David Macey
Biographic Data
| ID | 163529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Macey |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Macey |
| SIGNATURE | MACEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
I Am My Own Foundation
It has become almost conventional to describe the early work of Frantz Fanon as an expression of individual political revolt, and his later work as testimony to his commitment to a collective (national) revolution. This article contends that the early work (and especially Peau noire, masques blancs), while individualistic, is a continued source of political embarrassment in that it is unclassifiable and raises difficult issues about the construct…
Rethinking Biopolitics, Race and Power in the Wake of Foucault
This article examines the ambivalences in Foucault's elaboration of the concept of biopower and biopolitics. From the beginning, he relates the idea of a power over life to struggle and war, and so to race. In the period of the formation of the nation-state, threats to the unity and strength of the population were thought to come from a contagion by an alien element. In this context, tropes of race became aligned with the 'sciences and technologi…
Some Reflections on Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Idea of ‘Race’
We are in the year 50 . The whole of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans ... The whole of it? No: one village populated by invincible Gauls is still holding out against the invader. And the Roman legions garrisoned in the fortified camps in Babaorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Petitbonum are having a hard time of it. To skip 1,100 years of history: The Norman Conquest of 1066 was remarkable for its completeness ... However, the Isle of Ely became wh…
The art of shrinking heads: On the new servitude of the liberated in the age of total capitalism
Foreword. 1. From Modernity to Postmodernity. Mapping the Transition. 2. Homo Zappiens Goes to School. The Denial of Generational Difference. 3. The Denial of Sexion. 4. Neo-Liberalism as Desymbolisation. A New Form of Domination. Bibliography
Society Must Be Defended
Michel Foucault
Frantz Fanon, or the Difficulty of Being Martinican
Although often read as though it were an extension of the Afrocentric negritude associated with Senghor and others, the early work of Frantz Fanon (and especially his Black Skin, White Masks of 1952) is deeply rooted in the lived experience of a young man from Martinique, or at least the French West Indies, and is strongly influenced by that island’s history. Like that of Aimé Césaire, Fanon’s experience is that of someone who in legal and consti…
Reflections on Peasant Adaptation in Rural Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms
The Stolypin reforms in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century are usually understood as a revolutionary attempt to destroy the peasantry and peasant culture through legal coercion; in fact, they were a more moderate attempt to encourage change through voluntary procedures. In terms of both the numbers of peasants embracing them and their social impact, the reforms were also more successful than has traditionally been acknowledged. A ke…
Beyond Neoliberalism
The Penguin dictionary of critical theory
Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an authoritative resource for all students
Beginning the Translation
The Recall of the Real: Frantz Fanon and Psychoanalysis
The Algerian with the knife
The honour of Georges Canguihem
The sense of intellectual rigour that attacted so many readers to the work of Georges Canguihen in the 1960s goes hand in hand with a deep sense of personal honour. He at times hints that there is a direct and necessary connection between the two, and that connection is best illustrated by his comments on the life and work of Jean Cavailles. For Canguilhem, the implacable logic that Cavailles found at work in the history of mathematics provided t…
What Is Democracy
In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state?If democracy is to survive in the postcommunist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish tw…
The Sage and the Philosopher, or Queneau's Suburbs
Frantz Fanon 1925-1961
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
A French Algeria
In a major study of the construction of social hierarshies in colonial Algeria, Lorcin demonstrates how the promotion of a ‘Kabyle myth’, which was largely the product of the projection on to a Berber people of the supposedly superior virtues of French civilization, served to denigrate the Arab population. The Kabyle myth further served to promote the nation that Islam was both an inherently bellicose religion and an intractably unknowable object…
Critique of Modernity
Death of the intelectual
The classic image of the French intellectual that emerged from the Dreyfus Affair is in crisis as a result of the exhaustion of the revolutionary tradition and France's difficulties in coming to terms with new particularism.Judt makes a significant contribution to the history of the intellectual in France,accusing Sartre and others of betraying their proclaimed ideals by failing to denounce unequivocally Soviet show trails and labour camps.The st…
The Passion of Michel Foucault
Is Agrarian Privatization the Right Path? a Discussion of Historical Models
The lives of Michel Foucault: A Biography
When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. As public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosex…
Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis Without End
Rethinking Biopolitics, Race and Power in the Wake of Foucault
This article examines the ambivalences in Foucault's elaboration of the concept of biopower and biopolitics. From the beginning, he relates the idea of a power over life to struggle and war, and so to race. In the period of the formation of the nation-state, threats to the unity and strength of the population were thought to come from a contagion by an alien element. In this context, tropes of race became aligned with the 'sciences and technologi…
The Recall of the Real: Frantz Fanon and Psychoanalysis
I Am My Own Foundation
It has become almost conventional to describe the early work of Frantz Fanon as an expression of individual political revolt, and his later work as testimony to his commitment to a collective (national) revolution. This article contends that the early work (and especially Peau noire, masques blancs), while individualistic, is a continued source of political embarrassment in that it is unclassifiable and raises difficult issues about the construct…
Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia, 1613-1917
The frontier experience in Romanov Russia: the settlement of the central black earth region in the seventeenth century The odnodvorts The province of Voronezh under Catherine the Great Agricultural 'culture islands' in the eastern steppe: the Monnonites in Samar province Farming regions of Russia in the late nineteenth century The commune in the 1870s Modernization from above: the Stolypin land reform Regional specialization and trade in the late…
Is Agrarian Privatization the Right Path? a Discussion of Historical Models
Reforming Rural Russia: State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914
As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective, however, is to use the issue of autocratic politics to probe the character and evolution of bureaucr…
The End of the Russian Land Commune 1905-1930
Reflections on Peasant Adaptation in Rural Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms
The Stolypin reforms in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century are usually understood as a revolutionary attempt to destroy the peasantry and peasant culture through legal coercion; in fact, they were a more moderate attempt to encourage change through voluntary procedures. In terms of both the numbers of peasants embracing them and their social impact, the reforms were also more successful than has traditionally been acknowledged. A ke…
Beyond Neoliberalism
Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis Without End
Stolypin: Russia's Last Great Reformer
Gods, Princes, and Scribes
The End of the Russian Land Commune 1905-1930
Lacan et la philosophie
This review article examines certain of the assumptions that inform Juranville's philosophical reading of Lacan and demonstrates that, whilst his foregrounding of phenomenology is an important contribution to Lacanian studies in that it suggests that Lacan's reference to linguistics may have been overstated and that it is more productive to read his work as a more general reflection on language and signification, it depends ultimately upon the un…
Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the 'Peripheries of Capitalism
Stolypin: Russia's Last Great Reformer
On Ministers, Bureaucrats, and the Russian Peasant, 1902-06
The Land Captains: A Note On Their Social Composition, 1889-1913
Krizis agrarnoi politiki tsarizma nakanune pervoi Rossiiskoi revoliutsii
Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan
Lacan in Contexts
Navigating by fixed stars
Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis Without End
Reforming Rural Russia: State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914
As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective, however, is to use the issue of autocratic politics to probe the character and evolution of bureaucr…
Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia, 1613-1917
The frontier experience in Romanov Russia: the settlement of the central black earth region in the seventeenth century The odnodvorts The province of Voronezh under Catherine the Great Agricultural 'culture islands' in the eastern steppe: the Monnonites in Samar province Farming regions of Russia in the late nineteenth century The commune in the 1870s Modernization from above: the Stolypin land reform Regional specialization and trade in the late…
The lives of Michel Foucault: A Biography
When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. As public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosex…
The Passion of Michel Foucault
Is Agrarian Privatization the Right Path? a Discussion of Historical Models
Critique of Modernity
Death of the intelectual
The classic image of the French intellectual that emerged from the Dreyfus Affair is in crisis as a result of the exhaustion of the revolutionary tradition and France's difficulties in coming to terms with new particularism.Judt makes a significant contribution to the history of the intellectual in France,accusing Sartre and others of betraying their proclaimed ideals by failing to denounce unequivocally Soviet show trails and labour camps.The st…
Frantz Fanon 1925-1961
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
A French Algeria
In a major study of the construction of social hierarshies in colonial Algeria, Lorcin demonstrates how the promotion of a ‘Kabyle myth’, which was largely the product of the projection on to a Berber people of the supposedly superior virtues of French civilization, served to denigrate the Arab population. The Kabyle myth further served to promote the nation that Islam was both an inherently bellicose religion and an intractably unknowable object…
What Is Democracy
In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state?If democracy is to survive in the postcommunist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish tw…
The Sage and the Philosopher, or Queneau's Suburbs
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works)