By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s 1979-1980 lectures On the Government of the Living represent a pivotal double movement in Foucault’s thought, a double movement that has the effect of elaborating the third key dimension to Foucault’s work: namely, the dimension… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Du gouvernment des vivants. Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980). Michel Senellart, ed. (Gallimard/Le Seuil 2012) ___________, On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1970. Graham… Continue Reading
By Richard R. W. Brooks My comments on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics will focus on the distinctions he observes (in discussing neoliberalism) between abstract economic and legal subjects (subject of interests and subject of rights) and actual individuals in… Continue Reading
By Nancy Fraser What interests me most in this rich and fascinating text is Foucault’s contrast between “German ordo-liberalism” and “American anarcho-liberalism.” Evidently, he identifies each of these two “neoliberalisms” with a distinctive form of governmentality—a concept I assume others… Continue Reading
By François Ewald Transcribed and edited by Raphaëlle Jean Burns; reviewed and approved by François Ewald [Editors’ Note: This is an edited transcription of François Ewald’s talk at Hunter College CUNY on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 204… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Naissance de la biopolitique. Cours au Collège de France. 1978-1979, ed. Michel Senellart (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2003) ________________, Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France (1978-1979), trans. Graham Burchel (New… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Faire sortir de la véridiction du marché la juridicité de l’État: c’est ça le miracle allemand. (NB, p. 96 n*). (Naissance de la biopolitique, p. 96 n.*; Birth of Biopolitics, p. 95 n*). The lectures from… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Our Machiavelli of our own is indeed Marx: everything is said through him, even if it is not all located in his work.”[1] It was in passing on 8 March 1978 in his lectures on Security, Territory,… Continue Reading
By David Armitage Early in “Society Must Be Defended”, Foucault had seen his concerns shifting and a new research programme emerging. “Until now it has been disciplines; for the next five years, it will be war, struggle, the army.” That… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco “Je veux parler de la grande, tendre et chaleureuse franc-maçonnerie de l’érudition inutile.” (Il faut defendre la société, 6). Now, this useless erudition is not the “feverish laziness” of those who feel part of a secret… Continue Reading