Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve been away, but several people have been sending me links to a recent string of articles on Foucault’s supposed sympathies to neoliberalism. The start of the debate – in English at least – was the translation of an interview with Daniel Zamora at Jacobin. The interview relates to a…
The recent interview with Daniel Zamora on neoliberalism is causing quite a stir in the English language world at least. Brian Doherty, Concerned Leftists Rediscover Michel Foucault Might Not Have Been As Anti-Market as They’d Like on the reason.com site Daniel W. Drezner, Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend, on the Washington Post …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
It’s been two months since the last update on this book. I’ve been working, in and around lots of other things, on the manuscript, though more slowly than I’d hoped. I finished and published my review of On the Government of the Living and Wrong Doing, Truth Telling for Berfrois –…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My review of Foucault’s lecture courses Du gouvernement du vivants/On the Government of the Living and Mal faire, dire vrai/Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is now available, open access, at Berfrois. It’s entitled ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth‘ and it tries to situate these courses in relation to various longer-term projects of Foucault’s. I also say…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
My latest post at the New APPS group blog Continuing from my last post on ‘Style of Living versus Juridification in Foucault’, there seems to be me to be something to be gained by thinking about Kierkegaard’s ethics here, even if Kierkegaard’s Christianity and Foucault’s aesthetic self seem rather distinct. The emphasis…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I’ve made some additions and amendments to the Foucault Resources page on this blog. Among other things, the two contributions from Graham Burchell are linked; I’ve updated the table of Foucault’s various plans for The History of Sexuality, with a list of his lecture courses and related material; and it also has…
The limit experience blog has posted a collection of what they consider to be bad cover photos of books on Foucault. You may wish to differ or add your own examples!
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. I also drew together all the information I know about…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
After what has felt like a long break from working on this book, I’ve begun writing again. Some of this was during a recent trip to Ghana. The first part of Chapter Six looks at the collaborative projects Foucault was involved with through his Collège de France seminars and his involvement…
Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 21st February, 1973 Part One (of my summary and comments, the lecture was delivered as a unified entity) In the early nineteenth century, the penal system became a penitentiary system for the first time, was more unified, and was much more under the control of the state than before.…
