Colin Koopman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 291101 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Colin Koopman |
| PRENOMES | Colin |
| SOBRENOME | Koopman |
| ASSINATURA | KOOPMAN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0354-7522 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Human-Data Coupling
Artificing intelligence
The ethics of data interoperability
Data interoperability poses unique ethical challenges across a range of academic, industrial, and governmental implementations of data systems. Central to data interoperability is the design of systems and protocols for exchanging or integrating data from different initial source domains. Data interoperability is often regarded as necessary for carrying out tasks between different organizations and suborganizations as well as for ensuring seconda…
From Galton's Pride to Du Bois's Pursuit
Data increasingly drive our lives. Often presented as a new trajectory, the deep immersion of our lives in data has a history that is well over a century old. By revisiting the work of early pioneers of what would today be called data science, we can bring into view both assumptions that fund our data-driven moment as well as alternative relations to data. I here excavate insights by contrasting a seemingly unlikely pair of early data technologis…
When data drive health
The Political Theory of Data
Despite widespread recognition of an emergent politics of data in our midst, we strikingly lack a political theory of data. We readily acknowledge the presence of data across our political lives, but we often do not know how to conceptualize the politics of all those data points—the forms of power they constitute and the kinds of political subjects they implicate. Recent work in numerous academic disciplines is evidence of the first steps toward …
Critique in Truth
Bernard Harcourt's recent book is hefty. Its width catches the eye when shelved alongside the thin volumes that have become too customary in contemporary academic publishing (some of them a mere 125 pages). Critique & Praxis measures in at nearly 540 pages of text plus an additional 100 pages of back matter. But its heftiness is more a matter of the philosophical density and majesty that Harcourt brings to his subject: the possibilities for the p…
Coding the Self
This essay compares three models for conceptualizing the political and ethical challenges of contemporary genetics, genomics, and postgenomics. The three analytical approaches are referred to as the state‐politics model, the biopolitical model, and the infopolitical model. Each of these models is valuable for different purposes. In terms of their influence in contemporary discussions, the first is by far the dominant approach, the second is gaini…
"Preface to Symposium on Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson's "Genealogies of Terrorism
Information before information theory
Scholarship on the politics of new media widely assumes that communication functions as a sufficient conceptual paradigm for critically assessing new media politics. This article argues that communication-centric analyses fail to engage the politics of information itself, limiting information only to its consequences for communication, and neglecting information as it reaches into our selves, lives, and actions beyond the confines of communicatio…
Transition, Action and Education
Recent developments in contemporary pragmatist thought have the potential to help reshape our understandings of pragmatism in philosophy of education. We first survey the development of pragmatism as founded in experience, moving through linguistic pragmatism, to a newer –actionistic approach in conduct pragmatism. Conduct pragmatism prioritizes action over both experience and discursive thought in ways that can be central to educational activity…
How We Became Our Data
Critique without judgment in political theory
How We Became Our Data
Infopolitics, Biopolitics, Anatomopolitics
The classified intelligence documents exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed not only the technological tactics of contemporary mass surveillance but also some of the core strategic ideas underwriting its operation.One brief, anonymously authored sentence drawn from the leaked cache concisely expressed a key conditioning assumption of contemporary intelligence agencies: "in the future, superpowers will be made or broken based on the strength …
Problematization in Foucault's Genealogy and Deleuze's Symptomatology
The work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze frequently gave rise to a practice of philosophy as a form of critical problematization. Critical problematization both resonates between their thought and is also generative for contemporary philosophy in their wake. To examine critical problematization in each, a shared theme of inquiry provides a useful focal point. Foucault and Deleuze each deployed critical problematization in the context of stu…
Critical Problematization in Foucault and Deleuze
Unruly Pluralism and Inclusive Tolerance
Much attention is focussed on recent debates in contemporary political philosophy concerning the relative merits of ideal theory and non-ideal theory. In one of their many forms, these debates take shape as a realist challenge to idealistic or utopian approaches to normative political theory. This article shows that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism both instructively anticipates and also, more importantly, can today contribute to contemp…
Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James
The crucial bid of Sarin Marchetti's new book on William James is summarized by the title of his introduction: ‘William James, the Moral Philosopher’. The book argues that James was through and through a moral philosopher in that his work always addresses moral matters even where we would not expect it to be doing so. Marchetti wishes to use this interpretation to help establish the viability of metaphilosophically refashioning the project of mor…
Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory
Conduct Pragmatism
Debates over the relative priority of experience and language have been among some of the most vexed, but also generative, disputes in pragmatist philosophy over the past few decades. These debates have, however, run into the ground such that both positions find themselves at a definitive standstill. I argue for a rejuvenation of pragmatism by way of moving beyond both the experience option (here represented by Dewey) and the linguistic turn in p…
Genealogy, Methodology, & Normativity beyond Transcendentality
Genealogy as Critique
Genealogy As Critique
The Formation and Self‐Transformation of the Subject in Foucault's Ethics
This chapter begins by briefly considering Foucault's genealogies of the modern moral subject as the backdrop against which he conducted his inquiries on the ethical forms of subjectivation found in antiquity. It then turns at greater length to these inquiries, bringing them into focus in terms of possibilities for the self-transformation of the subject today. To make sense of these possibilities, and defend them against familiar criticisms, the …
Putting Foucault to Work
Is there a single area of intellectual inquiry in the humanities and social sciences where the work of Michel Foucault is not taken seriously? Discipline, biopolitics, governmentality, power/knowledge, subjectivation, genealogy, archaeology, problematization-these are just a few of the many Foucaultisms that have been adopted in fields such as philosophy, sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, area studies…
Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory
The Political Theory of Data
Despite widespread recognition of an emergent politics of data in our midst, we strikingly lack a political theory of data. We readily acknowledge the presence of data across our political lives, but we often do not know how to conceptualize the politics of all those data points—the forms of power they constitute and the kinds of political subjects they implicate. Recent work in numerous academic disciplines is evidence of the first steps toward …
Information before information theory
Scholarship on the politics of new media widely assumes that communication functions as a sufficient conceptual paradigm for critically assessing new media politics. This article argues that communication-centric analyses fail to engage the politics of information itself, limiting information only to its consequences for communication, and neglecting information as it reaches into our selves, lives, and actions beyond the confines of communicatio…
Rorty's Linguistic Turn
The linguistic turn is a central aspect of Richard Rorty's philosophy, informing his early critiques of foundationalism in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and subsequent critiques of authoritarianism in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.It is argued that we should interpret the linguistic turn as a methodological suggestion for how philosophy can take a non-foundational perspective on normativity.It is then argued that although Rorty did not…
Genealogical Pragmatism
This article offers the outlines of a historically-informed conception of critical inquiry herein named genealogical pragmatism. This conception of critical inquiry combines the genealogical emphasis on problematization featured in Michel Foucault's work with the pragmatist emphasis on reconstruction featured in John Dewey's work. The two forms of critical inquiry featured by these thinkers are not opposed, as is too commonly supposed. Genealogic…
Foucault's Historiographical Expansion
This paper offers a rereading of Foucault's much-disputed mid-career historiographical shift to genealogy from his earlier archaeological analytic. Disputing the usual view that this shift involves an abandonment of an archaeological method that was then replaced by a genealogical method, I show that this shift is better conceived as a historiographical expansion. Foucault's work subsequent to this shift should be understood as invoking both gene…
Problematization in Foucault's Genealogy and Deleuze's Symptomatology
The work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze frequently gave rise to a practice of philosophy as a form of critical problematization. Critical problematization both resonates between their thought and is also generative for contemporary philosophy in their wake. To examine critical problematization in each, a shared theme of inquiry provides a useful focal point. Foucault and Deleuze each deployed critical problematization in the context of stu…
Conduct Pragmatism
Debates over the relative priority of experience and language have been among some of the most vexed, but also generative, disputes in pragmatist philosophy over the past few decades. These debates have, however, run into the ground such that both positions find themselves at a definitive standstill. I argue for a rejuvenation of pragmatism by way of moving beyond both the experience option (here represented by Dewey) and the linguistic turn in p…
Critique without judgment in political theory
Infopolitics, Biopolitics, Anatomopolitics
The classified intelligence documents exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed not only the technological tactics of contemporary mass surveillance but also some of the core strategic ideas underwriting its operation.One brief, anonymously authored sentence drawn from the leaked cache concisely expressed a key conditioning assumption of contemporary intelligence agencies: "in the future, superpowers will be made or broken based on the strength …
Unruly Pluralism and Inclusive Tolerance
Much attention is focussed on recent debates in contemporary political philosophy concerning the relative merits of ideal theory and non-ideal theory. In one of their many forms, these debates take shape as a realist challenge to idealistic or utopian approaches to normative political theory. This article shows that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism both instructively anticipates and also, more importantly, can today contribute to contemp…
Genealogy, Methodology, & Normativity beyond Transcendentality
Foucault and Pragmatism
Being an introduction to a special issue on the theme of “Foucault and Pragmatism” this article offers a brief set of metaphilosophical comments on the project of building bridges across familiar philosophical divides. The paper addresses questions in metaphilosophical methodology raised by the pairing in the issue title: What is at stake in the comparison of philosophical figures like Michel Foucault and John Dewey? What is at stake in the compa…
Foucault across the disciplines
Foucault is one of the most widely cited thinkers across social sciences and humanities disciplines today. Foucault’s appeal, and ongoing value, across the disciplines has much to do with the power of his thought and his method to help us see the contingency of practices we take to be inevitable. It is argued in this introductory article that Foucault’s emphasis on contingency is as misunderstood as it is influential. I distinguish two senses of …
Historical Critique or Transcendental Critique in Foucault
A growing body of interpretive literature concerning the work of Michel Foucault asserts that Foucault’s critical project is best interpreted in light of various strands of philosophical phenomenology. In this article I dispute this interpretation on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is shown that a core theme of ‘the phenomenological Foucault’ having to do with transcendental inquiry cannot be sustained by a careful reading of Foucault’…
Revising Foucault
I offer a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modernity was his work on two crucial concept pairs: freedom/power and reason/madness. I argue against the view of Habermas and Derrida that Foucaul…
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Foucault's Historiographical Expansion
This paper offers a rereading of Foucault's much-disputed mid-career historiographical shift to genealogy from his earlier archaeological analytic. Disputing the usual view that this shift involves an abandonment of an archaeological method that was then replaced by a genealogical method, I show that this shift is better conceived as a historiographical expansion. Foucault's work subsequent to this shift should be understood as invoking both gene…
Historical Critique or Transcendental Critique in Foucault
A growing body of interpretive literature concerning the work of Michel Foucault asserts that Foucault’s critical project is best interpreted in light of various strands of philosophical phenomenology. In this article I dispute this interpretation on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is shown that a core theme of ‘the phenomenological Foucault’ having to do with transcendental inquiry cannot be sustained by a careful reading of Foucault’…
Appropriation and Permission in the History of Philosophy
In a recent issue of this journal I proposed a rereading of Foucault as a Kantian critical philosopher. In the pages of the present issue of the journal, Colin McQuillan offers a challenge to my reading by taking express issue with my claim that Foucault can be productively read as a Kantian. To summarize the context for both McQuillan's reply and the present response, it will be useful to point out that the primary aim of my article was to dispu…
Historical Conditions or Transcendental Conditions
Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages" Kevin Thompson ably mounts a number of important challenges to the exegetical and philosophical project I have proposed vis-vis the writings of Michel Foucault. I find Thompson's response illuminating on a number of points. The most important of these concerns the underlying philosophical issues which myself and others (including Thompson, Batrice Han-Pile, and Andrew Cutrofello) have taken as valuable materials fo…
Revising Foucault
I offer a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modernity was his work on two crucial concept pairs: freedom/power and reason/madness. I argue against the view of Habermas and Derrida that Foucaul…
Foucault and Pragmatism
Being an introduction to a special issue on the theme of “Foucault and Pragmatism” this article offers a brief set of metaphilosophical comments on the project of building bridges across familiar philosophical divides. The paper addresses questions in metaphilosophical methodology raised by the pairing in the issue title: What is at stake in the comparison of philosophical figures like Michel Foucault and John Dewey? What is at stake in the compa…
Foucault across the disciplines
Foucault is one of the most widely cited thinkers across social sciences and humanities disciplines today. Foucault’s appeal, and ongoing value, across the disciplines has much to do with the power of his thought and his method to help us see the contingency of practices we take to be inevitable. It is argued in this introductory article that Foucault’s emphasis on contingency is as misunderstood as it is influential. I distinguish two senses of …
Rorty's Linguistic Turn
The linguistic turn is a central aspect of Richard Rorty's philosophy, informing his early critiques of foundationalism in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and subsequent critiques of authoritarianism in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.It is argued that we should interpret the linguistic turn as a methodological suggestion for how philosophy can take a non-foundational perspective on normativity.It is then argued that although Rorty did not…
Genealogical Pragmatism
This article offers the outlines of a historically-informed conception of critical inquiry herein named genealogical pragmatism. This conception of critical inquiry combines the genealogical emphasis on problematization featured in Michel Foucault's work with the pragmatist emphasis on reconstruction featured in John Dewey's work. The two forms of critical inquiry featured by these thinkers are not opposed, as is too commonly supposed. Genealogic…
Genealogy As Critique Foucault And The Problems Of Modernity
Genealogy as Critique
Genealogy As Critique
The Formation and Self‐Transformation of the Subject in Foucault's Ethics
This chapter begins by briefly considering Foucault's genealogies of the modern moral subject as the backdrop against which he conducted his inquiries on the ethical forms of subjectivation found in antiquity. It then turns at greater length to these inquiries, bringing them into focus in terms of possibilities for the self-transformation of the subject today. To make sense of these possibilities, and defend them against familiar criticisms, the …
Putting Foucault to Work
Is there a single area of intellectual inquiry in the humanities and social sciences where the work of Michel Foucault is not taken seriously? Discipline, biopolitics, governmentality, power/knowledge, subjectivation, genealogy, archaeology, problematization-these are just a few of the many Foucaultisms that have been adopted in fields such as philosophy, sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, area studies…
Conduct Pragmatism
Debates over the relative priority of experience and language have been among some of the most vexed, but also generative, disputes in pragmatist philosophy over the past few decades. These debates have, however, run into the ground such that both positions find themselves at a definitive standstill. I argue for a rejuvenation of pragmatism by way of moving beyond both the experience option (here represented by Dewey) and the linguistic turn in p…
Genealogy, Methodology, & Normativity beyond Transcendentality
Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory
Critical Problematization in Foucault and Deleuze
Unruly Pluralism and Inclusive Tolerance
Much attention is focussed on recent debates in contemporary political philosophy concerning the relative merits of ideal theory and non-ideal theory. In one of their many forms, these debates take shape as a realist challenge to idealistic or utopian approaches to normative political theory. This article shows that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism both instructively anticipates and also, more importantly, can today contribute to contemp…
Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James
The crucial bid of Sarin Marchetti's new book on William James is summarized by the title of his introduction: ‘William James, the Moral Philosopher’. The book argues that James was through and through a moral philosopher in that his work always addresses moral matters even where we would not expect it to be doing so. Marchetti wishes to use this interpretation to help establish the viability of metaphilosophically refashioning the project of mor…
How We Became Our Data
Infopolitics, Biopolitics, Anatomopolitics
The classified intelligence documents exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed not only the technological tactics of contemporary mass surveillance but also some of the core strategic ideas underwriting its operation.One brief, anonymously authored sentence drawn from the leaked cache concisely expressed a key conditioning assumption of contemporary intelligence agencies: "in the future, superpowers will be made or broken based on the strength …
Problematization in Foucault's Genealogy and Deleuze's Symptomatology
The work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze frequently gave rise to a practice of philosophy as a form of critical problematization. Critical problematization both resonates between their thought and is also generative for contemporary philosophy in their wake. To examine critical problematization in each, a shared theme of inquiry provides a useful focal point. Foucault and Deleuze each deployed critical problematization in the context of stu…
Information before information theory
Scholarship on the politics of new media widely assumes that communication functions as a sufficient conceptual paradigm for critically assessing new media politics. This article argues that communication-centric analyses fail to engage the politics of information itself, limiting information only to its consequences for communication, and neglecting information as it reaches into our selves, lives, and actions beyond the confines of communicatio…
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