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Record W1506910945

Reconstituting the Political: Foucault and the Modern University

2009· article· en· W1506910945 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Laurence

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFoucault, Power, and Ethics
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInstitutionRealmDisciplinePoliticsPrisonContext (archaeology)Power (physics)SociologyEpistemologyMichel foucaultPolitical scienceSocial scienceLawPhilosophyCriminology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The notion that the modern university is not a political institution, that it exists outside of the realm of the political, is a notion that needs to be reconsidered. In developing a conception of power as relational and totalizing, Michel Foucault reveals a complex institutional network that subjugates individuals to regimes designed to create them as conforming citizens. In the context of Foucauldian power relations, the university can be understood as a complex, regulating, and normalizing institution that exercises disciplinary control in a similar manner to that of the modern prison. In this paper, I will explore the ways in which the university functions as a factory that manufactures and regulates specific discourses. In articulating the mechanics of power/knowledge that operate within the university context, the case can be made for the reconstitution of what is termed ‘political’.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score0.078

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.085
Scholarly communication0.0090.010
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0060.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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