By Bernard E. Harcourt I greatly appreciate the emphasis, in the insightful comments and articles by Nancy Fraser, Richard Brooks, and Kendall Thomas, on the issue of political economy as a source of truth-making, on the question of neoliberalism as a regime of truth,… Continue Reading
The following is a guest post by Stephen Sawyer, organizer of the March 25-26 Foucault and Neoliberalism Conference at the American University of Paris. Professor Sawyer has kindly provided us with concluding remarks on the conference. By Stephen Sawyer Michel… Continue Reading
Foucault and Neoliberalism: A Report from American University of Paris On Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, participants in Foucault 13/13 went to Paris to present at (and report from) the conference “Foucault and Neoliberalism” organized by the Center… Continue Reading
By Luca Provenzano In the course of the seminar discussion on The Birth of Biopolitics, Seyla Benhabib expressed disappointment that Foucault’s own positions were not differentiated from the neoliberal critique he described. Professor Benhabib compared Foucault in this regard to members… Continue Reading
By Kendall Thomas As it happens, I’ve been reading Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France lectures while preparing and teaching the first classes of a semester long course at Columbia Law School on “Law and Neoliberalism.” The course is a… 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 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