Foucault, epistemology and history

Delaporte, François

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“…In order to pursue this line of inquiry, we implement an analytical framework focused on the problematization of new objects of regulatory action (Ossandón and Ureta, 2019). Specifically, we draw on the ‘problem analysis’ methodology of Foucault, which looks for discursive patterns of tension, uncertainty, contradiction and conflict in order to qualify our understanding of the epistemic structures within which a problem – here: of regulating AI in the EU – is posed (Delaporte, 1998; Krarup, 2021a; Ossandón and Ureta, 2019).…”

Section: Between or Across Ethics And The Marketmentioning

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European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making

Krarup

Horst

2023

Big Data & Society

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Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued a position as global leader on ethical AI regulation in explicit contrast to US laissez-faire and Chinese state surveillance approaches. This article asks how the seemingly heterogeneous approaches of market making and ethical AI are woven together at a deeper level in EU regulation. Combining quantitative analysis of all official EU documents on AI with in-depth reading of key reports, communications, and legislative corpora, we demonstrate that single market integration constitutes a fundamental but overlooked engine and structuring principle of new AI regulation. Under the influence of this principle, removing barriers to competition and the free flow of data, on the one hand, and securing ethical and responsible AI, on the other hand, are seen as compatible and even mutually reinforcing.

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Section: Between or Across Ethics And The Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making

Krarup

Horst

2023

Big Data & Society

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“…Suvereenin synnyn kanssa yhtä jalkaa alkoi muodostua käsitys elämästä yleensä; kyse oli tosin po liittisesta elämästä yleensä, ei elämästä olevaa määrittävänä asiana -jälkimmäinen käsitys muotoutui 1800luvulla modernin biolo gian syntyessä (ks. Delaporte 1998). Poliittisen ajattelun ja politiikan idean sekä yhdessä elä misen, poliittisen yhteisön ja valtion käsitteet läpäisi kysymys, jopa huoli elämästä yleensä.…”

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Leirillä : Agamben ja aikalaisanalyysi

Helén¹

2012

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“…A Foucauldian approach is not particularly concerned with whether, scientifically speaking, things are true or false but rather the manner in which discursive structures relate to action ‘insofar as discourse defines the space within which one must situate oneself in order to be “within the bounds of truth” ’ (Delaporte, 1998, p. 287). In other words, in order for certain courses of action to be considered relevant, applicable, useful or desirable, they must pass through a discursively mediated structural environment in which there are already prevalent formulations of what is and is not appropriate.…”

Section: Foucault's Concept Of Errormentioning

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“…Instead, Foucault uses recursive methods to reconsider such obstacles as ‘conditions of possibility. By liberating history from the tutelage of epistemology, Foucault showed that what history had hitherto excluded was that which made possible the very knowledge that history placed in the limelight’ (Delaporte, 1998, p. 292). In terms of political and social action, this implies that error needs to be embraced; it is through the making of mistakes that we establish new foundations to think and behave in different ways.…”

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Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

Little

2011

Political Studies

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The trend in government and public policy towards evidence-based policy making has recently been the subject of criticism from authors such as Ian Sanderson who argue that the insights of complexity theory undermine the claims of evidence that these forms of policy design advocate.While taking on board the primary claim of this critique, this article examines the contribution of complexity theory in more detail to suggest that the epistemological obstacles that complexity science identifies also challenge the kind of pragmatic, deliberative model that Sanderson prefers. Instead, it examines the work of Michael Freeden on failure and Michel Foucault on error to demonstrate the ways in which approaches that are less wedded to epistemological certainty can enable policy makers to think more creatively about the complex terrain they must navigate and develop more innovative and less risk-averse forms of political action.Error is the permanent contingency [aléa] around which the history of life and the development of human beings are coiled (Foucault, 1998, p. 477).

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Foucault, epistemology and history

Cited by 8 publications

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European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making

European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making

Leirillä : Agamben ja aikalaisanalyysi

Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

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