J Oksala
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38132 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Oksala |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Oksala |
| ASSINATURA | OKSALA J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1323-3036 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Foucault, Maquiavel E a Arte De Governar
O objetivo do artigo é ler Foucault como um filósofo político que se apropriou diretamente, e de forma inovadora, do cânone da filosofia política. O foco está na leitura que Foucault faz de O príncipe, de Maquiavel, nas aulas de Segurança, território, população. O objetivo provocativo de Foucault é virar de cabeça para baixo a interpretação comumente aceita de Maquiavel. Quando lemos Maquiavel por meio do quadro conceitual da governamentalidade, …
The Force of Truth
The method of critical phenomenology
The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation on critical phenomenology with reflections on its method. The key argument is that critical phenomenology should be understood as a form of historico‐transcendental inquiry and therefore it cannot forgo the phenomenological reduction. Rather, this methodological step should be centered in critical phenomenology, and appropriated in problematized and rethought forms. The methodological asses…
Neoliberal Subjectivation
This article defends the theoretical centrality of Michel Foucault's account of subjectivation for critical responses to neoliberalism against those Marxist critics who claim that his focus on the subject pushed the Left into the fraught terrain of identity politics. A key contention is that a theoretically sophisticated account of subjectivation is a requisite for any philosophically coherent and politically effective theorization of resistance …
Beyond Neoliberal Realism
The article investigates Foucault's late thought and the resources it provides for contemporary politics. The aim is threefold: I will show (i) that Foucault's analysis of neoliberalism in the lecture series The Birth of Biopolitics should be recognized as part of his overarching critical project, which he called, in his late writings, a critical ontology of ourselves. The analysis of neoliberal governmentality should be read as a historical stud…
Feminismo, Capitalismo e Ecologia
Este artigo avalia criticamente os diferentes modos de conectar teoricamente feminismo, capitalismo e ecologia. Tomo a tradição existente do ecofeminismo socialista como ponto de partida e esboço dois diferentes modos pelos quais as conexões entre o capitalismo, a subordinação das mulheres e a destruição do meio ambiente têm sido produzidas nesta literatura: ecofeminismo materialista e ecofeminismo marxista. Demonstrarei as vantagens políticas e …
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
Philosophy in a time of a pandemic should insist that it is critically important to get to the root causes of the pandemic, and not merely react to its symptoms. The ultimate reason for this pandemic is our relentless destruction of nature and the merciless exploitation of animals
Feminist experiences
Feminism against Biocapitalism
In the theoretical literature on biocapitalism, commercial gestational surrogacy is often treated as a paradigm of the new forms of labor that have emerged with it. I begin by assessing Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby’s version of this idea in their influential 2014 book Clinical Labor. Their argument for understanding gestational surrogacy as labor can be interpreted as continuing the tradition of Marxist feminism that demands recognition an…
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
This article critically assesses the different ways of theoretically connecting feminism, capitalism, and ecology. I take the existing tradition of socialist ecofeminism as my starting point and outline two different ways that the connections among capitalism, the subordination of women, and the destruction of the environment have been made in this literature: materialist ecofeminism and Marxist ecofeminism. I will demonstrate the political and t…
Ordoliberalism As Governmentality
A Phenomenology of Gender
Foucault, Husserl and the philosophical roots of German neoliberalism
Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate Change
Affective Labor and Feminist Politics
This article discusses the political potential of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's influential notion of affective labor for feminist theory and politics. The argument proceeds in two stages. I begin by briefly explicating Hardt's and Negri's concept of affective labor and outline what I see as its potential benefits for advancing critical feminist thought and political imagination. In the second part of the article I turn to a critical evalua…
Foucault, Politics, and Violence
From Biopower to Governmentality
This chapter discusses Foucault's conceptualizations of power-biopower, pastoral power, and governmentality developed mainly in his lecture courses at the College de France in the late 1970s. It also explicates his analysis of liberal and neoliberal governmentality central in these lectures-the forms of governmentality that he saw as specific to modern Western societies. Foucault did not intend these lectures to be published-they have only been p…
In Defense of Experience
This article studies our philosophical understanding of experience in order to question the current political and theoretical dismissal of experiential accounts in feminist theory. The focus is on Joan Scott's critique of experience, but the philosophical issues animating the discussion go beyond Scott's work and concern the future of feminist theory and politics more generally. I ask what it means for feminist theory to redefine experience as a …
Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality
The article investigates the consequences for feminist politics of the neoliberal turn. Feminist scholars have analysed the political changes in the situation of women that have been brought about by neoliberalism, but their assessments of neoliberalism's consequences for feminist theory and politics vary. Feminist thinkers such as Hester Eisenstein and Sylvia Walby have argued that feminism must now return its focus to socialist politics and for…
The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism
(2011). The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 104-120
Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality
Foucault, Politics, and Violence
Before responding to Jana's and Kevin's questions and critical concerns, let me start by saying something about my motives for writing this book. Hopefully this will not be pointless personal detour, but will make it easier for me to answer some of the questions raised.This was not going to be book on Foucault. I was interested in the debates between agonistic and deliberative theories in political philosophy and, specifically, on the philosophic…
How is feminist metaphysics possible? A Foucauldian intervention
The article defends the importance of metaphysical inquiry in feminist philosophy and interrogates possible directions for such a project. A key aim is questioning the possibility of revisionary metaphysics as well as emphasising the consequences of the linguistic turn for any such project. I argue that before we can embark on any metaphysical inquiry - feminist or otherwise - we are doomed to repeating Immanuel Kant's monumental question of how …
Foucault’s politicization of ontology
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Affective Labor and Feminist Politics
This article discusses the political potential of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's influential notion of affective labor for feminist theory and politics. The argument proceeds in two stages. I begin by briefly explicating Hardt's and Negri's concept of affective labor and outline what I see as its potential benefits for advancing critical feminist thought and political imagination. In the second part of the article I turn to a critical evalua…
Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality
The article investigates the consequences for feminist politics of the neoliberal turn. Feminist scholars have analysed the political changes in the situation of women that have been brought about by neoliberalism, but their assessments of neoliberalism's consequences for feminist theory and politics vary. Feminist thinkers such as Hester Eisenstein and Sylvia Walby have argued that feminism must now return its focus to socialist politics and for…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Foucault, Politics, and Violence
Before responding to Jana's and Kevin's questions and critical concerns, let me start by saying something about my motives for writing this book. Hopefully this will not be pointless personal detour, but will make it easier for me to answer some of the questions raised.This was not going to be book on Foucault. I was interested in the debates between agonistic and deliberative theories in political philosophy and, specifically, on the philosophic…
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
This article critically assesses the different ways of theoretically connecting feminism, capitalism, and ecology. I take the existing tradition of socialist ecofeminism as my starting point and outline two different ways that the connections among capitalism, the subordination of women, and the destruction of the environment have been made in this literature: materialist ecofeminism and Marxist ecofeminism. I will demonstrate the political and t…
The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism
(2011). The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 104-120
In Defense of Experience
This article studies our philosophical understanding of experience in order to question the current political and theoretical dismissal of experiential accounts in feminist theory. The focus is on Joan Scott's critique of experience, but the philosophical issues animating the discussion go beyond Scott's work and concern the future of feminist theory and politics more generally. I ask what it means for feminist theory to redefine experience as a …
Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity
The paper studies the relationship between political violence and biological life in the thought of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. I follow Foucault in arguing that understanding political violence in modernity means rethinking the ontological boundary between biological and political life that has fundamentally ordered the Western tradition of political thought. I show that while Arendt, Agamben and Foucault all see the merg…
Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality
Sexual Experience
This paper explicates Foucault's conception of experience and defends it as an important theoretical resource for feminist theory. It analyzes Linda Alcoff's devastating critique of Foucault's account of sexuality and her reasons for advocating phenomenology as a more viable alternative. I agree with her that a philosophically sophisticated understanding of experience must remain central for feminist theory, but I demonstrate that her critique of…
Anarchic Bodies
Neoliberal Subjectivation
This article defends the theoretical centrality of Michel Foucault's account of subjectivation for critical responses to neoliberalism against those Marxist critics who claim that his focus on the subject pushed the Left into the fraught terrain of identity politics. A key contention is that a theoretically sophisticated account of subjectivation is a requisite for any philosophically coherent and politically effective theorization of resistance …
Anarchic Bodies
The article shows that Michel Foucault's account of the sexual body is not a naive return to a prediscursive body, nor does it amount to discourse reductionism and to the exclusion of experience, as some feminists have argued. Instead, Foucault's idea of bodies and pleasures as a possibility of the counterattack against normalizing power presupposes an experiential understanding of the body. The experiential body can become a locus of resistance …
Beyond Neoliberal Realism
The article investigates Foucault's late thought and the resources it provides for contemporary politics. The aim is threefold: I will show (i) that Foucault's analysis of neoliberalism in the lecture series The Birth of Biopolitics should be recognized as part of his overarching critical project, which he called, in his late writings, a critical ontology of ourselves. The analysis of neoliberal governmentality should be read as a historical stud…
How is feminist metaphysics possible? A Foucauldian intervention
The article defends the importance of metaphysical inquiry in feminist philosophy and interrogates possible directions for such a project. A key aim is questioning the possibility of revisionary metaphysics as well as emphasising the consequences of the linguistic turn for any such project. I argue that before we can embark on any metaphysical inquiry - feminist or otherwise - we are doomed to repeating Immanuel Kant's monumental question of how …
The Management of State Violence
Cyberfeminists and women
The article addresses the question of gender-identity and its relationship to embodiment. It renders the natural or self-evident status of gender-identity problematic and inquires into the philosophical constitution of its meaning. I will first briefly present some of the standard ideas about identity that prevail in our culture, and then introduce Michel Foucault's notion of identity as an alternative to these ideas. In Foucault's thought, ident…
Anarchic Bodies
The article shows that Michel Foucault's account of the sexual body is not a naive return to a prediscursive body, nor does it amount to discourse reductionism and to the exclusion of experience, as some feminists have argued. Instead, Foucault's idea of bodies and pleasures as a possibility of the counterattack against normalizing power presupposes an experiential understanding of the body. The experiential body can become a locus of resistance …
Anarchic Bodies
Foucault on Freedom
Freedom and the subject were guiding themes for Michel Foucault throughout his philosophical career. In this clear and comprehensive analysis of his thought, Johanna Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in his philosophy and examines three major divisions of it: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical. She shows convincingly that in order to appreciate Foucault's project fully we must understand his complex rel…
A phenomenology of gender
The Management of State Violence
Foucault’s politicization of ontology
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity
The paper studies the relationship between political violence and biological life in the thought of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. I follow Foucault in arguing that understanding political violence in modernity means rethinking the ontological boundary between biological and political life that has fundamentally ordered the Western tradition of political thought. I show that while Arendt, Agamben and Foucault all see the merg…
Sexual Experience
This paper explicates Foucault's conception of experience and defends it as an important theoretical resource for feminist theory. It analyzes Linda Alcoff's devastating critique of Foucault's account of sexuality and her reasons for advocating phenomenology as a more viable alternative. I agree with her that a philosophically sophisticated understanding of experience must remain central for feminist theory, but I demonstrate that her critique of…
The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism
(2011). The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 104-120
Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality
Foucault, Politics, and Violence
Before responding to Jana's and Kevin's questions and critical concerns, let me start by saying something about my motives for writing this book. Hopefully this will not be pointless personal detour, but will make it easier for me to answer some of the questions raised.This was not going to be book on Foucault. I was interested in the debates between agonistic and deliberative theories in political philosophy and, specifically, on the philosophic…
How is feminist metaphysics possible? A Foucauldian intervention
The article defends the importance of metaphysical inquiry in feminist philosophy and interrogates possible directions for such a project. A key aim is questioning the possibility of revisionary metaphysics as well as emphasising the consequences of the linguistic turn for any such project. I argue that before we can embark on any metaphysical inquiry - feminist or otherwise - we are doomed to repeating Immanuel Kant's monumental question of how …
From Biopower to Governmentality
This chapter discusses Foucault's conceptualizations of power-biopower, pastoral power, and governmentality developed mainly in his lecture courses at the College de France in the late 1970s. It also explicates his analysis of liberal and neoliberal governmentality central in these lectures-the forms of governmentality that he saw as specific to modern Western societies. Foucault did not intend these lectures to be published-they have only been p…
In Defense of Experience
This article studies our philosophical understanding of experience in order to question the current political and theoretical dismissal of experiential accounts in feminist theory. The focus is on Joan Scott's critique of experience, but the philosophical issues animating the discussion go beyond Scott's work and concern the future of feminist theory and politics more generally. I ask what it means for feminist theory to redefine experience as a …
Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality
The article investigates the consequences for feminist politics of the neoliberal turn. Feminist scholars have analysed the political changes in the situation of women that have been brought about by neoliberalism, but their assessments of neoliberalism's consequences for feminist theory and politics vary. Feminist thinkers such as Hester Eisenstein and Sylvia Walby have argued that feminism must now return its focus to socialist politics and for…
Foucault, Politics, and Violence
A Phenomenology of Gender
Foucault, Husserl and the philosophical roots of German neoliberalism
Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate Change
Affective Labor and Feminist Politics
This article discusses the political potential of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's influential notion of affective labor for feminist theory and politics. The argument proceeds in two stages. I begin by briefly explicating Hardt's and Negri's concept of affective labor and outline what I see as its potential benefits for advancing critical feminist thought and political imagination. In the second part of the article I turn to a critical evalua…
Ordoliberalism As Governmentality
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
This article critically assesses the different ways of theoretically connecting feminism, capitalism, and ecology. I take the existing tradition of socialist ecofeminism as my starting point and outline two different ways that the connections among capitalism, the subordination of women, and the destruction of the environment have been made in this literature: materialist ecofeminism and Marxist ecofeminism. I will demonstrate the political and t…
Feminist experiences
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