Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and “visual citizenship”

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ID12947692
AuthorsSusanne Krasmann (0000-0002-9868-8581, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages10-26
Publication date2017-08-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFoucault Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.22439/fs.v0i0.5339
OpenAlexW2744796219
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

One of the most exciting features in Foucault’s work is his analytics of power in terms of forms of visibility. It allows for a reflection on the conditions of seeing and thinking, thus triggering a seemingly paradoxical move: locating the limits of our perspectives entails simultaneously transgressing these limits. In a way, we decipher our own blind spot. Approaching Discipline and Punish through this perspective brings us to identify the digital subject as a characteristic figure of our time. In contrast to its disciplinarian counterpart, it appears to be an active, though not necessarily political subject. The notion of visual citizenship will help us to go a step further and figure out what it could mean to challenge today’s surveilling gaze

Aesthetics · Analytics · Citizenship · Cognitive science · Data science · DECIPHER · Epistemology · Gaze · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reflection (computer programming · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visibility · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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