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Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual (2016)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2016). Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual. In S. Tomšič, & A. Zevnik (Eds.), Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics. Routledge

This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of... Read More about Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual.

Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality (2016)
Book Chapter
Goffey, A. (2016). Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality. In P. Harvey, C. Bruun Jensen, & A. Morita (Eds.), Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622880-45

The National Programme for IT, or NPfIT for short, was a flagship IT project of the first Labour administration initiated by Tony Blair in 2002. Headed by Richard Grainger and costing an alleged £18.7bn, it was widely billed as the ‘biggest IT project... Read More about Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality.

Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited (2016)
Book Chapter
Cullen, F. (2016). Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited. In J. Fenlon, R. Kenny, C. Pegum, & B. Rooney (Eds.), Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620-1820. Irish Academic Press

Examination of a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of Commons. Explores the format of the painting and its failure as a large scale work of contemporary history. Concludes that contents of picture is a political a... Read More about Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited.

Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio (2016)
Book Chapter
Chang, T. (2016). Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio. In H. Clayson, & A. Dombrowski (Eds.), Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900. Routledge