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The politics of time and temporality in Foucault’s theorisation of resistance

Ruptures, time-lags and decelerations

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ID13042007
AuthorsM Lilja (0000-0003-2773-8534, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue3
Pages419-432
Publication date2018-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Power (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2158379x.2018.1523319
OpenAlexW2896860893
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited18

This paper revolves around the politics of time and temporality within Michel Foucault’s theorisation of resistance. In focus is Foucault’s outline of resistance as discursive resistance, reversed discourses, techniques of the self and counter-conducts, and other anti-authority struggles. These forms of resistance are played out across a range of temporal scales. When is resistance, in Foucault’s view, spectacular and instantaneous rather than incremental and ‘slow’? Overall, this paper reveals how the resistance practices, that are described within Foucault’s texts, appear as repetitions of signs across time, major ruptures, breaks or as rhizomatic movements between now, then and the future

Epistemology · Focus (optics · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Temporality · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy

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