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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 10. All articles are freely available as open access on the Foucault Studies website.

A Special Issue on Foucault and Agamben
Guest Edited by Jeffrey Bussolini

Including five original articles and an interpretive review essay of recent publications by Agamben bearing on the work of Foucault.

The issue also includes a report from the Foucault Archives at Berkeley, a review essay of the recent translation of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France 1982-1983: The Government of Self and Others and seven new book reviews.

Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome submissions ranging from theoretical explications of Foucault’s work and texts to interdisciplinary engagements across various fields, to empirical studies of contemporary phenomena using Foucaultian approaches.

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Number 10, November 2010:
Table of Contents:

Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor & Ditte Vilstrup Holm

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Special Issue on Foucault and Agamben

Introduction to the Special Issue
Jeffrey Bussolini

The Allegory of the Cage: Foucault, Agamben, and the Enlightenment
Arne de Boever

Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity
Johanna Oksala

Agamben’s Foucault: An overview
Anke Snoek

One Paradigm, Two Potentialities: Freedom, Sovereignty and Foucault in Agamben’s Reading of Aristotle’s ‘δύναμις’ (dynamis)
David Bleeden

What is a Dispositive?
Jeffrey Bussolini

Critical Encounter Between Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault: Review of Recent Works of Agamben
Jeffrey Bussolini

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Toolbox

The Foucault Archives at Berkeley
Alain Beaulieu
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Review Essay

Michel Foucault, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France 1982-1983, edited by Arnold I. Davidson. translated by Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Alan Milchman, Alan Rosenberg

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Reviews

Raymond Aron. Michel Foucault. Dialogue. Analyse de Jean-François Bert (Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Lignes, 2007)
Sophie Bourgault

Paul Marcus, In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (London: Karmac Books Ltd., 2010)
George Kunz

Mitchell Dean, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society, 2nd Edition (London: Sage, 2010)
Michael Lait

Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject (New York: Continuum, 2009)
Tomas Marttila

Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)
Corey McCall

David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical History of Temporality (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009)
Alexander Paulsson

Mari Ruti, A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009)
Marcus Schulzke