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Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions, including punishment. In some ways, Foucault was the super high-grade intellectual fence-sitting analytical philosopher, the antithesis to our pres
<p>New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism. </p>
In 2010 David Cameron declared that nudge theory – a concept laid out by the authors of Nudge, expanding on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman – would transform British politics. Eleven years on, the former PM’s favourite thinkers have prepared a new book for him to chew over. Subtitled “A Flaw in Human Judgement”, it arrives about six years too late. Here, Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein study “noise”, which they define as “unwanted variability in judgements”. If bias is systematic, noise is random – inconsistent, irrational decisi...
By Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora Verso: 256 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In 1978 and 1979, the French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures on neoliberalism, the set of economic doctrines focused on free market enterprise, limited government and individual autonomy. Foucault wasn’t interested in the nitty-gritty of actual governing. “I have not studied and do not want to study,” he announced in the first lecture, “the development of real governmental pract...
By HENRY CULVYHOUSE The Daily Independent Apr 20, 2021 5 hrs ago EASTPARK, Ky. â On July 18, 2020, a couple of hunters were making some preparations for the fall on a piece of land they leased on the edge of Boyd County, up at the Industrial Parkway. The week prior, according to authorities, they had smelled something rancid, perhaps a dead animal. This time, they followed the stench â thatâs when Boyd County Coroner Mark Hammond said they found a human buttocks sticking out of the ground. On top of the buttocks was a bit of rock and the charred remnants of a fire, ...