Marie‐christine Leps
Biographic Data
| ID | 95661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie‐christine Leps |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie‐christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Leps |
| SIGNATURE | LEPS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Terror-Time in Network-Centric Battlespace
Variously addressing the war on terror now waged in the “full-spectrum dominance” of network-centric battlespace, DeLillo’s most recent four novels (published immediately before and since the 9/11 attacks) work to produce stillness as opposed to seductive, terroristic speed—to detach identities from everyday practices of time and elaborate transformative experiences for the reader. Each novel constitutes a complex hetero-chronograph, a textual ap…
How to map the non-place of empire
This essay argues that Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis (2003) provides a cognitive map of the fraught networks of strategic relations among cybercapitalism, biopolitics, terrorism, and identity formation in an ‘experience-book' (to use Foucault's expression), which sets in motion altered forms of knowledge co-production with its reader – and thus answers Fredric Jameson's call for a new aesthetics able to counter late capitalism. Not only a set of…
The politics of life after death
This essay relates Ondaatje's novel to the philosophical fictions of Foucault and others in order to signal the contribution that literary texts can make to a "political and ethical enterprise that carries anti‐racist dissidence into a deeper confrontation with the history, philosophy, and jurisprudence of 'transmodernity'" (Gilroy 53). Situating the Sri Lankan civil war within broader geopolitical and legal struggles, Ondaatje's anti‐war novel d…
Critical Productions of Discourse
This paper correlates Marc Angenot's theory of social discourse to the transgredient notions of the dialogical in Mikhail Bakhtin, and of governmentality in Michel Foucault. Together these three concepts allow a close investigation of the material/textual production of hegemonic truths, as well as an exploration of the means of transforming such truths and elaborating new forms of subjectivity and agency. Angenot, Bakhtin, and Foucault deploy the…
Rethinking the Exercise of Power
Empowerment Through Information
An always imperative need to know is widely registered in contemporary discourse, in the mass media, in government policies regarding the nation's role in the information age, in businesses engaged in a globalizing economy, and, of course, in academic institutions, where what we do is always of vital interest. The need to know activates social, economic, and political relations; it usually precedes and invariably succeeds normal practice, ensurin…
Apprehending the Criminal
In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures de…
The politics of life after death
This essay relates Ondaatje's novel to the philosophical fictions of Foucault and others in order to signal the contribution that literary texts can make to a "political and ethical enterprise that carries anti‐racist dissidence into a deeper confrontation with the history, philosophy, and jurisprudence of 'transmodernity'" (Gilroy 53). Situating the Sri Lankan civil war within broader geopolitical and legal struggles, Ondaatje's anti‐war novel d…
How to map the non-place of empire
This essay argues that Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis (2003) provides a cognitive map of the fraught networks of strategic relations among cybercapitalism, biopolitics, terrorism, and identity formation in an ‘experience-book' (to use Foucault's expression), which sets in motion altered forms of knowledge co-production with its reader – and thus answers Fredric Jameson's call for a new aesthetics able to counter late capitalism. Not only a set of…
Rethinking the Exercise of Power
Empowerment Through Information
An always imperative need to know is widely registered in contemporary discourse, in the mass media, in government policies regarding the nation's role in the information age, in businesses engaged in a globalizing economy, and, of course, in academic institutions, where what we do is always of vital interest. The need to know activates social, economic, and political relations; it usually precedes and invariably succeeds normal practice, ensurin…
Empowerment Through Information
An always imperative need to know is widely registered in contemporary discourse, in the mass media, in government policies regarding the nation's role in the information age, in businesses engaged in a globalizing economy, and, of course, in academic institutions, where what we do is always of vital interest. The need to know activates social, economic, and political relations; it usually precedes and invariably succeeds normal practice, ensurin…
Apprehending the Criminal
In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures de…
Rethinking the Exercise of Power
Critical Productions of Discourse
This paper correlates Marc Angenot's theory of social discourse to the transgredient notions of the dialogical in Mikhail Bakhtin, and of governmentality in Michel Foucault. Together these three concepts allow a close investigation of the material/textual production of hegemonic truths, as well as an exploration of the means of transforming such truths and elaborating new forms of subjectivity and agency. Angenot, Bakhtin, and Foucault deploy the…
The politics of life after death
This essay relates Ondaatje's novel to the philosophical fictions of Foucault and others in order to signal the contribution that literary texts can make to a "political and ethical enterprise that carries anti‐racist dissidence into a deeper confrontation with the history, philosophy, and jurisprudence of 'transmodernity'" (Gilroy 53). Situating the Sri Lankan civil war within broader geopolitical and legal struggles, Ondaatje's anti‐war novel d…
How to map the non-place of empire
This essay argues that Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis (2003) provides a cognitive map of the fraught networks of strategic relations among cybercapitalism, biopolitics, terrorism, and identity formation in an ‘experience-book' (to use Foucault's expression), which sets in motion altered forms of knowledge co-production with its reader – and thus answers Fredric Jameson's call for a new aesthetics able to counter late capitalism. Not only a set of…
Terror-Time in Network-Centric Battlespace
Variously addressing the war on terror now waged in the “full-spectrum dominance” of network-centric battlespace, DeLillo’s most recent four novels (published immediately before and since the 9/11 attacks) work to produce stillness as opposed to seductive, terroristic speed—to detach identities from everyday practices of time and elaborate transformative experiences for the reader. Each novel constitutes a complex hetero-chronograph, a textual ap…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Biopower (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)