Market Power Extended: From Foucault to Meadows

Faubion MICHEL FOUCAULT POWER

Foucault on Power and Ethics: Implications for Information Systems Planning

José Córdoba Centre for Systems Studies, Business School University of Hull Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX E-mail: [email protected] Telephone number: 01482-465021 Fax Number: 01482-466637

From the Foucault pendulum to the galactical gyroscope and LHC

The Lagrange theory of particle motion in the noninertial systems is applied to the Foucault pendulum, isosceles triangle pendulum and the general triangle pendulum swinging on the rotating Earth. As an analogue, planet orbiting in the rotating galaxy is considered as the the giant galactical gyroscope. The Lorentz equation and the Bargmann-MichelTelegdi equations are generalized for the rotati...

Power and knowledge in nursing practice: the contribution of Foucault.

This paper explores the implications of Michel Foucault's philosophical analyses for understanding nursing practice. Foucault describes power within a given society as unfolding not through large-scale events but rather through a complex 'micro-physics'. Power operates upon the human body. With the increasing use of observation, in understanding both the natural and social world, the body has b...

From Szasz to Foucault: On the Role of Critical Psychiatry

In this article, we examine the different ways in which Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault have challenged dominant perspectives within psychiatry. We identify, analyze, and compare the central elements of their respective discourses on psychiatry and show that although they are often bracketed together, in fact there are certain fundamental differences between Szasz and Foucault. Of most importa...