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    Foucault & the political.Jon Simons - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    This is the first major study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker. Written in clear prose, Foucault and the Political explores the ramifications for political theory of the whole range of Foucault's writing, including materials only recently made available. Jon Simons argues that Foucault's work is animated by a tension between his presentation of modern life as "unbearably heavy" and his temptation to escape its limitations by aiming for "unbearable lightness." Through expositions of Foucault's ideas on power/knowledge, subjectification, governmentality, (...)
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    Power, Resistance, and Freedom.Jon Simons - 2013 - In Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault. Malden Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 299–319.
    This chapter first outlines some of Foucault' s conceptualizations of forms of power, focusing on discipline and biopower. The first section explores the extent to which Foucault understood modern power relations to be constraining limits, inhospitable to freedom. The second section focuses on some of Foucault's general conceptualizations rather than specific historical analyses of power and resistance. The third section follows Foucault's conceptualization of power relations as more expansive and complex than domination. In the final section Foucault's affirmative conceptualization of (...)
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    Executive function and high ambiguity perceptual discrimination contribute to individual differences in mnemonic discrimination in older adults.Helena M. Gellersen, Alexandra N. Trelle, Richard N. Henson & Jon S. Simons - 2021 - Cognition 209 (C):104556.
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    Foucault and the Political.Jon Simons - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    Michel Foucault's involvement with politics, both as an individual and a writer, has been much commented upon but until now has not been systematically reviewed. This is the first major introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker. Jonathon Simons explores the importance of the political in all areas of Foucault's work and life, including important material only recently made available and the implications of various revelations about his private life. Simons relates Foucault's work both to contemporary political thinkers (...)
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    Eye movements reveal a dissociation between memory encoding and retrieval in adults with autism.Rose A. Cooper, Kate C. Plaisted-Grant, Simon Baron-Cohen & Jon S. Simons - 2017 - Cognition 159 (C):127-138.
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    Aesthetic political technologies.Jon Simons - 2002 - Intertexts 1 (1):74-97.
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    Benjamin’s communist idea: Aestheticized politics, technology, and the rehearsal of revolution.Jon Simons - 2016 - European Journal of Political Theory 15 (1):43-60.
    Recent interest in communism as an idea prompts reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s conception of a “communist” aesthetic politics. In spite of Benjamin’s categorical condemnation of aestheticized politics, his “artwork essay” is better read as both explicit condemnation of a particular (regressive fascist) type of aestheticized politics and implicit commendation of another (progressive communist) type. Under the modern conditions of the technological reproducibility of art, and mass politics, the character of and relationship between the cultural value spheres of politics and aesthetics (...)
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    Democracy is a failure worthy of infinite repetition.Jon Simons - 2001 - Critical Horizons 2 (1):127-148.
    This paper argues that democracy is universalisable as a theory and practice that fails to be identical with itself. Firstly, the paradox that democracy's universality can be put into practice only in particular terms and contexts is discussed. Then four models of democratic universality are presented and assessed: (i) empirical or actual universality; (ii) hybrid universality; (iii) cosmopolitan universality; (iv) impossible universality.The final argument is that democracy can be universalised because of the impossibility of making the demos identical with political (...)
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    Divine Violence, Profane Peace: Walter Benjamin, Rabbis for Human Rights, and Peace in Israel–Palestine.Jon Simons - 2020 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2020 (192):41-66.
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    Foucault and power: The influence of political engagement on theories of power.Jon Simons - 2015 - Contemporary Political Theory 14 (4):e41-e44.
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    From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory.Jon Simons (ed.) - 2002 - Edinburgh University Press.
    Aimed at students without philosophical training and who study literary, cultural, social or political theorists engaging with this European intellectual tradition, this textbook is an accessible guide to key figures in "The Tradition of Critique"--Critical post-Enlightenment European thinking.
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    From resistance to polaesthics: Politics after Foucault.Jon Simons - 1991 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 17 (1):41-55.
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    Governing the Public: Technologies of Mediation and Popular Culture.Jon Simons - 2002 - Cultural Values 6 (1-2):167-181.
    Media technologies are an integral and vital element of democratic governance. The political public of representative democratic régimes are mediated publics, in that they exist and are constituted as publics through the mediation of technologies of mass media. The public sphere of democratic politics is part of, and central to, the mediated sphere of popular culture. There is a structural and necessary relation between the popularization of culture and the democratization of politics. A governmentalist approach understands political media technologies not (...)
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    Knowing and Doing, Skepticism and Coherence.Jon Simons - 2000 - Political Theory 28 (2):273-278.
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    Modernist misapprehensions of Foucault's aesthetics.Jon Simons - 2000 - Cultural Values 4 (1):40-57.
    Several critics of Foucault, notably Alan Megill and Jürgen Habermas, accuse Foucault of being an ‘aestheticist’. As such, Foucault fails to realise that the very appeal to aesthetics is made possible by modernity's rationalization, which offers better resources for emancipation than dangerous aestheticizations. This paper argues that such criticisms mistakenly deploy only certain modernist notions of aesthetics against Foucault. There are some fair grounds for holding that Foucault does appeal to such conceptions of aesthetics in his theorization of transgression, not (...)
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    Politics and truth: Immanence, practice and constellations.Jon Simons - 2001 - Social Epistemology 15 (1):43 – 58.
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    Postmodern paranoia? Pynchon and Jameson.Jon Simons - 2000 - Paragraph 23 (2):207-221.
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    The Dialectics of Diana as Empty Signifier.Jon Simons - 1997 - Theory and Event 1 (4).