Bibliopolitics

The History of Notation and the Birth of the Citational Academic Subject

Bibliographic Data

ID12947732
AuthorsMatt Sharpe (0000-0002-8165-5775, Deakin University), Kirk Turner (0000-0002-6083-4467, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages146-173
Publication date2018-10-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFoucault Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.22439/fs.v0i25.5578
OpenAlexW4254808031
LanguageEN
References cited13

The paper builds upon a growing body of critical research on the proliferating use of bibliometrics as a means to evaluate academic research, but brings to it a specifically Foucauldian, genealogical approach. The paper has three parts. Part 1 situates bibliometrics as a new technology of neoliberal, biopolitical governmentality, alongside the host of other ‘metrics’ (led by biometrics) that have emerged in the last two decades. Part 2 analyses bibliometrics’ antecedents in prior notational practices in the Western heritage, highlighting how forms of noting have almost always had political valences tied to projects of control or subversion. Part 3 then delineates the specific features of bibliometrics as a new form of notation, highlighting the latest forms of academic subjectivity bibliometrics suppose and increasingly are summoning into being

Bibliometrics · Epistemology · Governmentality · Library science · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Subversion · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Publishing and Scholarly Communication

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