Robert S Leib
Biographic Data
| ID | 4424884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Leib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Leib |
| SIGNATURE | LEIB R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4459-3832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Legopolitics
I develop a latent form of Foucauldian analysis called ‘legopolitics.’ Like biopolitics, legopolitics is a novel archaism combining the Greek lego , ‘I say,’ and politeia , ‘civic life.’ It names the study of ‘legopower,’ a form of security power that centers on the circulation of public statements — the ‘idle talk’ of trends, fads, and other viral processes that do not rise to the level of the logos . Where biopolitics is ‘governance of a popula…
Exoanthropology
Goffman and Foucault
The works of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault are theoretically and practically complementary in many ways. First, I review areas of overlap between Goffman and Foucault’s perspectives and methods. Second, I describe several higher-order concepts – order, episteme, regime, framing, agonism, and containment – which for both thinkers describe the relations between individuals and institutions. Third, I develop their connection through Foucault’s …
I Nomi Degli Dei
Spaces of the Self
A whole history remains to be written of spaces-which at the same time would be history of powers (both these terms in the plural)-from the great strategies of geo-politics to the little tactics of the habitat, institutional architecture from the classroom to the design of hospitals, passing via economic and installations.1Space is fundamental in any form of communal life; space is fundamental in any exercise of power.2While there is an abundance…
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Spaces of the Self
A whole history remains to be written of spaces-which at the same time would be history of powers (both these terms in the plural)-from the great strategies of geo-politics to the little tactics of the habitat, institutional architecture from the classroom to the design of hospitals, passing via economic and installations.1Space is fundamental in any form of communal life; space is fundamental in any exercise of power.2While there is an abundance…
I Nomi Degli Dei
Goffman and Foucault
The works of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault are theoretically and practically complementary in many ways. First, I review areas of overlap between Goffman and Foucault’s perspectives and methods. Second, I describe several higher-order concepts – order, episteme, regime, framing, agonism, and containment – which for both thinkers describe the relations between individuals and institutions. Third, I develop their connection through Foucault’s …
Exoanthropology
Legopolitics
I develop a latent form of Foucauldian analysis called ‘legopolitics.’ Like biopolitics, legopolitics is a novel archaism combining the Greek lego , ‘I say,’ and politeia , ‘civic life.’ It names the study of ‘legopower,’ a form of security power that centers on the circulation of public statements — the ‘idle talk’ of trends, fads, and other viral processes that do not rise to the level of the logos . Where biopolitics is ‘governance of a popula…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropocentrism (1 work)