Technologies of the Self

By Luciano Floridi. Philosophy & Technology, 2012

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

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Sexual orientation discrimination: Exploring the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees in Turkey (2011, background): “…the absence of legal persecution of sexual minorities, the substantial limits on the discursive space allotted to the homosexual identity inhibit individual technologies of the self (in the sense of Foucault, 1997) to establish an existential place and purpose within the public-private nexus.”
The Neoliberal-Developmental State: Singapore as Case Study (2012, background): “Technologies are essentially ‘matrix of reasons’ (Foucault, 2003: 146), of which Foucault identifies four major types (see Foucault, 2003).”
Reflection and reflective practice discourses in coaching: a critical analysis (2018, background): “…historically, power relations construct what it is possible to think and is ‘the governmentality of the self by oneself in its articulations with relations with others’ (Foucault, 1997a, p. 88), an ‘encounter between the technologies of domination and those of the self’ (Foucault, 1997b, p. 225).”
Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics (2014, background): “One perspective that may be adopted uses the philosophy of Michel Foucault. Foucault’s (1988) writings on the practices and care of the self in western societies are pertinent to understanding self-tracking as a particular mode of governing the self.”
Consumer Empowerment Through Internet-Based Co-creation (2009, background): “In this sense, virtual co-creation serves as a “technology of self” [44]. the empowerment felt by consumers depends on the design of the virtual interaction tool, participants’ product involvement, and enjoyment of the virtual interaction. co-creation tools enabling consumers to solve an assigned…”
One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness (2014, background): “Foucault (1988). peace of mind 213 Now, in all religions, there are cultural accretions—things inessential to the religion,which are simply taken over from the ambient culture, and taken for granted.”
Identity undoing and power relations in leadership development (2013, background): “Technologies of power are techniques that ‘determine the conduct of individuals and submit them to certain ends or domination’ and in doing so objectivize the subject (Foucault, 1988: 19).”
Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering (2019, background): “In this way, we would argue, the digital expression of maternal subjectivities in general, and sharenting in particular, function as technologies of the self (Foucault, 1988).”
Narrative Practice and the Transformation of Interview Subjectivity (2012, background): “Time and again, in institutional contexts ranging from the medical clinic and the mental asylum to the prison, Foucault showed how “technologies of the self ” created and transformed sources of information about who and what we are (see Dreyfus & Rabinow, 1982; Foucault, 1988).”
House Price Keynesianism and the Contradictions of the Modern Investor Subject (2010, background): “Instituting uneasiness about an unsecured future acts to incentivise, in Foucault's terms (1988), the government of the self by the self.”
the relationships (2013, background): “Taking what Foucault (1988) called the ‘technologies of self’ discursive practices can be used consciously or unconsciously, but nevertheless purposefully, to support or defend their quest for competence.”