Michel Foucault, his unconfessed Marxism and his critique of psychology

Pavón‐Cuéllar, David

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2229

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“…We need a deeper and reinvigorated ethical-political engagement with social change, through both material and symbolic means (Campbell, 2013;Pavón-Cuéllar, 2020). One alternative is to embrace prefigurative action: examining the contextual limitations of our work, and engage as allies and co-learners with marginalised communities and social movements (Kagan, Burton, Duckett, Lawthom, & Siddiquee, 2019).…”

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The ethical–political dimension of social and community praxis: The case of Ecuador's early response to COVID‐19

Capella

2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In Ecuador, the painful impact of the covid-19 pandemic elicited early responses by the government, and by local communities. This critical, positioned and exploratory case study analyses such responses, underscoring the fundamental ethical-political dimension of any academic and professional praxis aimed at the construction of healthier societies worldwide. While critical traditions are familiar with this stance, the inequalities and ideological mechanisms made visible by covid-19 responses may enable the wider community of researchers and practitioners to join ongoing collective ethical-political efforts. Findings from Ecuador underline the potentially harmful role of neoliberalism, and issues of democratic legitimacy; significant problems before and during the pandemic shock; and official discourses which blame communities for their own suffering and death. Neutrality and depoliticized notions of scientific evidence are notoriously insufficient in these scenarios. We need to engage more deeply with diverse forms of global and local community resistance, in times of covid-19, and beyond. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement

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The ethical–political dimension of social and community praxis: The case of Ecuador's early response to COVID‐19

Capella

2021

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“…Este predominio de las relaciones capitalistas en la totalidad de las actividades sociales, expresadas en la forma de la mercancía (valor de cambio) y el trabajo abstracto, ha sido abordado por Sohn-Rethel (1978) y Postone (2006). • Jesús Ayala-Colqui conceptos marxistas tales como "alienación", "lucha de clases", "ideología" (Eribon, 2020;Pavón-Cuellar, 2020). Este último, sin embargo, no es definido explícita y reflexivamente en estas obras: es un significante usado en el sentido genérico de conjunto de ideas que determina una época; así, se afirma que la ideología ha de "tomar una parte activa y a menudo determinante en la reestructuración política y social" (Foucault, 2001: 118).…”

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Aparatos y dispositivos. O cómo pensar el poder y el contrapoder con Althusser y Foucault

Ayala-Colqui

2023

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El objetivo del presente artículo es problematizar la relación entre Althusser y Foucault a partir de las nociones de aparato ideológico y dispositivo de poder. Para esto se analiza, en primer lugar, los vínculos que Althusser desarrolla entre aparato, sujeto y lucha social. Se visita, en segundo lugar, la obra de Foucault para identificar tres cuestiones: los usos positivos del término ideología, las posteriores críticas a esta noción y, sobre todo, los conceptos que la reemplazan para pensar el poder, el sujeto y la resistencia. Finalmente, se argumenta sobre la convergencia conceptual entre Althusser y Foucault donde no solo es visible una afinidad, sino también una coherencia que haría de sus invenciones teóricas herramientas coextensivas y complementarias.

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Marx's critical discourse for thinking about environmental devastation: a perspective beyond the hegemonic imaginaries of sustainability

Luna

2021

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The historical development of contemporary capitalism has produced an environmental crisis of global dimensions. The predominance of harmful capital technology determines the deployment of the capital productive forces that overexploit and pollute nature in ways never seen before. In this context, the present study aims to advance towards the reconstruction of the ecological streak of Marxism from Marx's critical discourse, distancing itself from both the hegemonic imaginaries of sustainability. An exploratory analysis of documents was followed to present the arguments that both Conventional Economics (CE) and environmental economics deploy to try to explain contemporary environmental devastation, and subsequently, from this impotent criticism and prey to the logic of the market and value as a social form, it goes on to structure the hegemonic imaginaries of sustainability. In this sense, this paper argues for the need for the critical and scientific discourse of Karl Marx to think about the environmental devastation and the objective conditions of possibility for ecological capitalism; thus, it was possible to address the ecological and political-libertarian dimension of Marx's thought and the task of developing it to break with the hegemonic views of sustainability; and overcome the series of misrepresentations and misstatements that have been made to an alleged anti-ecological view of Marx. The study concluded that, while the struggle for the environment has become somewhat urgent, this front does not replace that of the class struggle; that is, the contradiction between capital and nature does not subordinate to the contradiction between capital and labor but, on the contrary, updates it. Therefore, the validity of Marx's critical discourse is essential, in its genesis and development, to make an ecological criticism of the economics and politics of contemporary capitalism.

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Michel Foucault, his unconfessed Marxism and his critique of psychology

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

The ethical–political dimension of social and community praxis: The case of Ecuador's early response to COVID‐19

The ethical–political dimension of social and community praxis: The case of Ecuador's early response to COVID‐19

Aparatos y dispositivos. O cómo pensar el poder y el contrapoder con Althusser y Foucault

Marx's critical discourse for thinking about environmental devastation: a perspective beyond the hegemonic imaginaries of sustainability

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