{"product_id":"a-face-drawn-in-sand-by-rey-chow-9780231188371","title":"A Face Drawn in Sand","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Face Drawn in Sand\u003c\/em\u003e by Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault's concept \"outside.\" This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound\/voice\/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyse, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429702942956,"sku":"9780231188371","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231188371.jpg?v=1774560028","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-face-drawn-in-sand-by-rey-chow-9780231188371","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}