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
David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler discuss Foucault’s seventh lecture series at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978). Please watch the video of the seminar here or below. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by David Armitage, Adam Tooze,… 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
1. Michel Senellart’s “Course Context” to Security, Territory, Population (“STP”) contains a fascinating tension, one that is nicely dramatized by Bernard Harcourt and Adam Tooze’s differing interpretations of the relationship between Foucault’s previous lecture series – Society Must Be Defended… Continue Reading
Jeremy K. Kessler is Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His forthcoming book Fortress of Liberty: The Rise and Fall of the Draft and the Remaking of American Law (Harvard) explores how legal and political contests over the military… Continue Reading
David Armitage, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an… Continue Reading
Adam Tooze is Kathryn Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. His current research engages in twentieth century and contemporary global history, but Professor Tooze has published broadly in the fields of modern German history and economic history.… Continue Reading
By Adam Tooze In 1975-6 with Society Must be Defended (SMD) Foucault rebooted the project of the Collège de France lectures. The aim, as he states and restates in both SMD and Security, Territory and Population (STP) is a critical… 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
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Sécurité, térritoire, population. Cours au Collège de France. 1977-1978, ed. Michel Senellart (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2003) ________________, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France (1977-1978), trans. Graham Burchel (New York:… Continue Reading