Mark G E Kelly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1340002 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark G E Kelly |
| PRENOMES | Mark G E |
| SOBRENOME | Kelly |
| ASSINATURA | KELLY M G E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8343-3204 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Postliberalism as Ethos
Back to the Future
The Trump Restoration
DEI in the Globalizing University
World Spirit in an Electric Vehicle
Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity
We, Voluntary Victorians
As we near the semicentennial of the 1976 publication of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, for all its influence in the interim, this work remains today extraordinarily challenging in relation to our sexual mores. In this article, I will attempt to reapply its insights to analyze contemporary trends in sexuality and gender. Questions that I will consider include the continuing applicability of Foucault’s analyses, to what exten…
A Professional-Managerial Imperium
In 2021, in the pages of this journal, I contended that a coalition of interests in the United States had coalesced in opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump and duly taken power through the vehicle of Joe Biden.1 This coalition includes the Democratic Party, corporate elites, the media, academia, and—the subject of the present article—the national security (natsec) state. In that earlier piece, I focused on particular components of this co…
The Second American Civil War Is Not Taking Place
My title both denies and affirms the core claim of the essay by Paul Kahn beneath which this comment appears. I agree for the most part with Kahn's depiction of the actuality of the United States, but I disagree with his overarching categorization of this as "civil war." I do not believe a second U.S. civil war is sensu stricto either in progress or even in prospect. The political situation in the United States is not a war. This is a fact that K…
The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution
Techno-hegemonyI would like to begin by juxtaposing a personal anecdote of mine with a recent online "hot take."The former is a remembrance of a meeting of the members of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University with our dean in 2010, at which he was explaining why the university was effectively shutting us down.Against the invocation of conventional norms of higher education, he offered a contrasting vision o…
Bleeding Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine began in 2014. The invasion launched by Russia in 2022 was not its genesis but an escalation that fundamentally changed the nature of the war, and perhaps also marked a sea change in international affairs
Failed Statecraft
Prior to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, a decades-long civil war had already riven the country. This had principally been the result of massive interventions from both competing sides in the Cold War, first the Soviet Union invading to prop up a government with no popular basis, then the West flooding the country with money and third-country militants in order to bleed the Soviet intervention forces. The civil strife that followed the Soviet w…
Trump l’Oeil
On January 6, 2021, Trumpism imploded. Following the general election of November 3, 2020, a grassroots movement had staged rallies across the nation to contest the election result, while Trump and his backers mounted a largely farcical parallel legal campaign to overturn it. On January 6, Congress assembled to finalize Joe Biden’s election as the forty-sixth U.S. president. For the first time, Trump himself now personally organized and led a ral…
The Closing of the American Public Sphere
In an article published last year in this journal, I suggested that, compared to the possibility of ′′fascism′′ developing in the United States, the extent to which a rising Big Tech might, through its combination of new technologies with the concentration of immense wealth, transcend the state form altogether presented a greater danger.1 The actions of Big Tech after the so-called ′′Capitol Storm′′ of January 6, 2021, in censoring not only socal…
Spinoza, the Transindividual
Étienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon's concept of the transindividual
Foucault On Psychoanalysis
Foucault’s remarks concerning psychoanalysis are ambivalent and even prima facie contra-dictory, at times lauding Freud and Lacan as anti-humanists, at others being severely criti-cal of their imbrication within psychiatric power. This has allowed a profusion of interpretations of his position, between so-called ‘Freudo-Foucauldians’ at one extreme and Foucauldians who condemn psychoanalysis as such at the other. In this article, I begin by surve…
Is Fascism the Main Danger Today? Trump and Techno-Neoliberalism
Last year, I was invited to speak at a symposium on state theory in Turkey.1 The theme I was given to speak on invoked “authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist states,” for reasons that will be obvious to anyone familiar with the political situation in Turkey: there is at least a very serious danger of the appearance of a fascist state form there today, though Turkish colleagues debate the precision of the application of the term “fascist” to the Er…
Foucault and the Politics of Language Today
We find ourselves today in a conjuncture where the use of language has become an object of political concern to a perhaps unprecedented extent, or at least in unprecedented ways. In particular, the words used to refer to individuals and to groups, down to the use of pronouns, have come into intense question, as have the ways in which groups are represented in the media and in positions of power. In light of this situation, I want to bring the ana…
What’s In a Norm? Foucault’s Conceptualisation and Genealogy of the Norm
In this article I survey Foucault’s remarks on norms and normalisation from across his oeuvre, with a view to reconstructing his genealogy of norms, leaning at points – following Foucault himself – on Georges Canguilhem’s seminal work on the topic. I also survey in tandem the existing secondary scholarship on this question, maintaining – pace other schol-ars – that Foucault’s position has not been adequately explicated despite sophisticated attem…
For Foucault
Problematizing Problems
Problems in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
Problematizing the Problematic
In this article, I re-examine the relationship between the thoughts of contemporaneous and associated late twentieth-century French philosophers Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, through the prism of the notion of the problem. I discuss the philology of the use of the noun “problematic” in French philosophy in relation to Foucault and Althusser’s use of it, concluding that while Althusser makes this a term of art in his thought, Foucault does …
For Foucault
For Foucault
Michel Foucault , The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Discipline is control
PHILOSOPHICAL STAKES It is often assumed that Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze have compatible philosophical perspectives. There are both biographical and textual grounds for this assumption. Biographically, the two men were close friends during the early 1970s. This was a relatively brief association, however, which ended apparently because of political differences between them, specifically over Deleuze's signing, in 1977, of a petition which…
Problematizing Problems
Against prophecy and utopia
In this essay, I take as a starting point Foucault's rejection of two different ways of thinking about the future, prophecy and utopianism, and use this rejection as a basis for the elaboration of a more detailed rejection of them, invoking complexity-based epistemic limitations in relation to thinking about the future of political society. I follow Foucault in advocating immanent political struggle, which does not seek to build a determinate vis…
What’s In a Norm? Foucault’s Conceptualisation and Genealogy of the Norm
In this article I survey Foucault’s remarks on norms and normalisation from across his oeuvre, with a view to reconstructing his genealogy of norms, leaning at points – following Foucault himself – on Georges Canguilhem’s seminal work on the topic. I also survey in tandem the existing secondary scholarship on this question, maintaining – pace other schol-ars – that Foucault’s position has not been adequately explicated despite sophisticated attem…
Problematizing the Problematic
In this article, I re-examine the relationship between the thoughts of contemporaneous and associated late twentieth-century French philosophers Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, through the prism of the notion of the problem. I discuss the philology of the use of the noun “problematic” in French philosophy in relation to Foucault and Althusser’s use of it, concluding that while Althusser makes this a term of art in his thought, Foucault does …
The Second American Civil War Is Not Taking Place
My title both denies and affirms the core claim of the essay by Paul Kahn beneath which this comment appears. I agree for the most part with Kahn's depiction of the actuality of the United States, but I disagree with his overarching categorization of this as "civil war." I do not believe a second U.S. civil war is sensu stricto either in progress or even in prospect. The political situation in the United States is not a war. This is a fact that K…
Foucault Contra Honneth
This article deals with the relationship between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Axel Honneth, arguing in favour of the former against the latter. I begin by considering Honneth’s early engagement in The Critique of Power with Foucault’s thought. I rebut Honneth’s criticisms of Foucault here as a misreading, one which prevents Honneth from coming to grips with Foucault’s position and hence the challenge that it poses to Honneth’s proje…
Michel Foucault , The Hermeneutics of the Subject
T. Rayner, Foucault's Heidegger
(2008). T. Rayner, Foucault's Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience. Critical Horizons: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 239-243
The political philosophy of Michel Foucault
The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and progressive philosophical and political viewpoint. The work is thus an important intervention into the field of Foucault studies, where many continue to claim …
Foucault, Subjectivity, and Technologies of the Self
In this chapter, the author analyzes Foucault's conception of subjectivity and his history of technologies of the self, the collections of practices by which subjectivity constitutes itself. The first section situates Foucault's conception of subjectivity in his overall body of work and intellectual context, particularly in relation to two figures in French philosophy. The second section explores the conception of the subject that Foucault develo…
Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge
A step-by-step guide to Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge , Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. Mark Kelly systematically unpacks the intricacies of Foucault's dense and sometimes confusing exposition, in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context. This is bot…
Foucault against Marxism
This is an essay about two late-twentieth-century French philosophers, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, and Marxism. My thesis, simply stated, is that Foucault and Althusser pursued the same basic theoretical trajectory in relation to Marxism and that this trajectory is both rooted in and leads decisively away from Marx and Marxism. I argue that Althusser was stymied in this trajectory by his adherence to the French Communist Party, leaving F…
Foucault and Politics
A clear and critical account of Foucault's political thought: what he said, how it's been used and its influence todayGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748676866','ISBN:9780748676859','ISBN:9780748676873','ISBN:9780748676897');This book surveys Michel Foucault's thought in the context of his life and times, utilising the latest primary and secondary materials to explain the political implications of each phase of his work and the relationshi…
Against prophecy and utopia
In this essay, I take as a starting point Foucault's rejection of two different ways of thinking about the future, prophecy and utopianism, and use this rejection as a basis for the elaboration of a more detailed rejection of them, invoking complexity-based epistemic limitations in relation to thinking about the future of political society. I follow Foucault in advocating immanent political struggle, which does not seek to build a determinate vis…
Discipline is control
PHILOSOPHICAL STAKES It is often assumed that Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze have compatible philosophical perspectives. There are both biographical and textual grounds for this assumption. Biographically, the two men were close friends during the early 1970s. This was a relatively brief association, however, which ended apparently because of political differences between them, specifically over Deleuze's signing, in 1977, of a petition which…
For Foucault
For Foucault
Foucault Contra Honneth
This article deals with the relationship between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Axel Honneth, arguing in favour of the former against the latter. I begin by considering Honneth’s early engagement in The Critique of Power with Foucault’s thought. I rebut Honneth’s criticisms of Foucault here as a misreading, one which prevents Honneth from coming to grips with Foucault’s position and hence the challenge that it poses to Honneth’s proje…
For Foucault
Problematizing Problems
Problems in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
Problematizing the Problematic
In this article, I re-examine the relationship between the thoughts of contemporaneous and associated late twentieth-century French philosophers Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, through the prism of the notion of the problem. I discuss the philology of the use of the noun “problematic” in French philosophy in relation to Foucault and Althusser’s use of it, concluding that while Althusser makes this a term of art in his thought, Foucault does …
What’s In a Norm? Foucault’s Conceptualisation and Genealogy of the Norm
In this article I survey Foucault’s remarks on norms and normalisation from across his oeuvre, with a view to reconstructing his genealogy of norms, leaning at points – following Foucault himself – on Georges Canguilhem’s seminal work on the topic. I also survey in tandem the existing secondary scholarship on this question, maintaining – pace other schol-ars – that Foucault’s position has not been adequately explicated despite sophisticated attem…
Spinoza, the Transindividual
Étienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon's concept of the transindividual
Foucault On Psychoanalysis
Foucault’s remarks concerning psychoanalysis are ambivalent and even prima facie contra-dictory, at times lauding Freud and Lacan as anti-humanists, at others being severely criti-cal of their imbrication within psychiatric power. This has allowed a profusion of interpretations of his position, between so-called ‘Freudo-Foucauldians’ at one extreme and Foucauldians who condemn psychoanalysis as such at the other. In this article, I begin by surve…
Is Fascism the Main Danger Today? Trump and Techno-Neoliberalism
Last year, I was invited to speak at a symposium on state theory in Turkey.1 The theme I was given to speak on invoked “authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist states,” for reasons that will be obvious to anyone familiar with the political situation in Turkey: there is at least a very serious danger of the appearance of a fascist state form there today, though Turkish colleagues debate the precision of the application of the term “fascist” to the Er…
Foucault and the Politics of Language Today
We find ourselves today in a conjuncture where the use of language has become an object of political concern to a perhaps unprecedented extent, or at least in unprecedented ways. In particular, the words used to refer to individuals and to groups, down to the use of pronouns, have come into intense question, as have the ways in which groups are represented in the media and in positions of power. In light of this situation, I want to bring the ana…
Failed Statecraft
Prior to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, a decades-long civil war had already riven the country. This had principally been the result of massive interventions from both competing sides in the Cold War, first the Soviet Union invading to prop up a government with no popular basis, then the West flooding the country with money and third-country militants in order to bleed the Soviet intervention forces. The civil strife that followed the Soviet w…
Trump l’Oeil
On January 6, 2021, Trumpism imploded. Following the general election of November 3, 2020, a grassroots movement had staged rallies across the nation to contest the election result, while Trump and his backers mounted a largely farcical parallel legal campaign to overturn it. On January 6, Congress assembled to finalize Joe Biden’s election as the forty-sixth U.S. president. For the first time, Trump himself now personally organized and led a ral…
The Closing of the American Public Sphere
In an article published last year in this journal, I suggested that, compared to the possibility of ′′fascism′′ developing in the United States, the extent to which a rising Big Tech might, through its combination of new technologies with the concentration of immense wealth, transcend the state form altogether presented a greater danger.1 The actions of Big Tech after the so-called ′′Capitol Storm′′ of January 6, 2021, in censoring not only socal…
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