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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)In this paper, I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present, global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)What happened during the fairly long silence following The History of Sexuality? … had he [Foucault] not trapped himself within the concept of power relations?’ asks Deleuze. According to him, Foucault would have answered ...
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Sewchurran, Anusharani; Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (University of Free State, 2020)In this essay, we critically reflect on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education with specific focus on the South African context. After contextualising the problematics in terms of what Castells terms ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2011)This article forms part of an ongoing investigation into and research on the dynamics, culture and forms of subjectivity of neo-liberalism. Seen through the lens of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s analyses of ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2021)In this article, I undertake a critical interrogation of the complex relations of control operating in the contemporary workplace of the knowledge worker by drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of power and resistance. ...
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Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2021)Please read abstract in article.
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Kuleuven, 2007-09)French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's thinking on art goes to the very heart of the debate concerning the possibility of "thinking (or expressing/expressive) pictures". Knowing whether or not art can give things a face ...
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Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from anywhere, but they also ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (University of the Free State, 2022-07-31)The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become ‘networked’. To this end, I first describe societal ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Routledge, 2016-03)This programmatic essay explores some of the challenges that a seemingly quintessential European or Continental philosopher such as Levinas faces when his thought on alterity and on the responsibility we bear towards the ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (LitNet, 2009-03)In this paper I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2020-06)In hierdie essay voer ek aan dat NP van Wyk Louw se 1939-konsep van "lojale verset", 'n konsep gemobiliseer in die naam van Afrikanernasionalisme, desnieteenstaande sy kritiese slaankrag vir ons tyd behou as ons dit deur ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)The current national crisis in Higher Education in South Africa, set against the backdrop of a corrupt national government incapable of providing any leadership in this regard, compels philosophers to undertake an incisive ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)This essay aims to critically assess the later Foucault's ethical turn by using Levinas's ethical metaphysics as critical yardstick. Foucault's notion of ethical subjectivity constitutes a site of resistance against ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Editura ASE, 2021-11-20)Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)This contribution critically considers the findings and recommendations of the report published in 2011 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on the state of the humanities in South Africa. The study concludes ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2012)Like his one-time teacher, Heidegger, Levinas makes a distinction between Being (Sein) and beings (Seiendes), but prefers to speak of ‘existence’ and the ‘existent’. Again, like Heidegger, Levinas understands existence ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2007)In our present-day Western society, there has been an increasing tendency towards individualism and indifference and away from altruism and empathy. This has led to a resurgence of ethical concerns in contemporary Continental ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 2021)In this paper I attempt to come to a critical understanding of an intriguing phenomenon at the heart of a broader question, i.e. what are we today – as knowledge workers – in relation to our present understood as the ...
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Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)Foucault professes the possibility of resistance despite the human innate entrapment in power and knowledge. The ethical subject is the site where this resistance becomes possible, if and only this ethical subject is ...
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