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'care of the self' as an awakening...question

Teresa Mayne — 2008-05-12T00:12:58+05:30

Foucault in *The Hermeneutics of the Subject,* the translations of his lectures from the College de France between 1981 – 1982, states that "in his activity of encouraging others to attend to themselves Socrates says that with regard to his fellow citizens his role is that of someone who awakens them. The care of the self will thus be looked upon as the moment of the first awakening". Does this awakening correspond in any way to the awakening of the Enlightenment, which Kant interprets as a way that we can free ourselves from the status of immaturity? What I mean is, is Foucault's interpretation of Kant another way of formulating how the 'care of the self' can be awakened yet again? And then is the 'first awakening' a constant, unchanging awakening that is reborn again and again at various times during history? I'm thinking of Parmenides here. Please bear in mind that this question is coming from an English translation of Foucault's lectures at the College de France. My French is pretty horrible and my abilit...

Psychology of Ideology and Discourse

Orion Anderson — 2008-05-08T13:07:25+05:30

PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE Richard A. Koenigsberg WHY DO SOME DISCOURSES BECOME DOMINANT? Reality is socially constructed, but constructed based on what? People continually construct various forms of reality, but only a very few take hold and become structures of society. Is it possible to explain why some discourses become dominant and not others? Writing about the Holocaust, Hannah Arendt claims that anti-Semitism "explains everything and therefore nothing." One may suggest that concepts like "discourse" and "narrative" similarly explain everything and therefore nothing. What requires explanation is why certain discourses or narratives become salient and significant. To comprehend the meaning of an ideology, we pose the question: "Why does it exist?" My studies on Nazi ideology (see, for example, IDEOLOGY, PERCEPTION AND GENOCIDE: How Fantasy Generates History) begin by identifying recurring images and metaphors in the rhetoric o...

Conference on Political Extremism and Psychopathology

Orion Anderson — 2008-04-24T12:27:10+05:30

20th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHIATRY, May 3 & 4, 2008, Washington, DC "Political Extremism and Psychopathology" LOCATION: THE FAIRMONT WASHINGTON Executive Forum, Ballroom Level 2401 M. Street, NW, Washington, DC. Phone: 202-429-2400 THERE IS NO FEE FOR ATTENDANCE. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Click Here For Complete Program Presentation by Richard Koenigsberg, "Political Violence and the Concept of Collective Psychopathology" PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF MASS-SLAUGHTER IN THE 20TH CENTURY Because of radical Islam and suicide bombings, people have begun to look at the relationship between psychopathology and politics. However, the monumental episodes of mass-slaughter that occurred in the West during the Twentieth Century dwarf what terrorism has generated. In this presentation, I examine the psychopathology of collective forms of political destruction and self-destruction given names like as war, genocide...

Warfare as Collective Psychopathology

Orion Anderson — 2008-04-17T12:44:10+05:30

Warfare as Collective Psychopathology Presentation by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D. Thursday, April 24, 2008, 1:00 PM 815 Second Avenue (one block West of United Nations near 43rd Street) Sponsored by: Ignatius University & Syrian Orthodox Church in America Over two-hundred million people were killed in the Twentieth Century as a result of political violence generated by nations. It seems as though the world lived through an epidemic, or malignant disease. Former Secretary-of-State Zbigniew Brzezinski states that the Twentieth Century was dominated by the "politics of organized insanity." Yet nowhere does one find a systematic concept of psychopathology to characterize these monumentally destructive political events. An article analyzing Jim Jones and mass-suicide that occurred in Guyana in 1978 is entitled "The Cult Leader as Agent of a Psychotic Fantasy of Masochistic Group Death." Why do people find it easy to speak the language of psychopathology in relationship to individuals and quot;cults," yet so diffi...

Re: Donzelot and Procacci

Kevin Turner — 2008-04-09T11:10:36+05:30

maybe not exactly what you asked for but there are two chapters in 'The Foucault Effect," one by each author: 'Social Economy and the Government of Poverty,' Giovanna Procacci: 151-168 'The Mobilization of Society,' Jacques Donzelot: 169-180. Regards, Kevin. ____________________________________________________________ Receive Notifications of Incoming Messages Easily monitor multiple email accounts & access them with a click. Visit http://www.inbox.com/notifier and check it out!

Donzelot and Procacci

Rupa Viswanath — 2008-04-09T10:10:34+05:30

Dear Listmembers, Has any of Donzelot's *L'invention du Sociale* been translated into English apart from the Graham Burchell translation of the chapter "The Promotion of the Social" in *Economy and Society*. And what about Giovanna Procacci's *Gouverner la misere*? Thanks, Rupa

Re: Reply to "Introduction"

Martin Hinks — 2008-04-07T15:41:48+05:30

Re: Reply to "Introduction"

Arthur Zinault — 2008-04-07T15:36:06+05:30

I once came across (in English) a pretty nice quote from Foucault about how, basically, he reserved the right for himself to change his mind, that he was an individual whose ideas were ever-evolving, and he essentially refused to be stuck in one place, reserving for himself the right to follow whatever philosophical trails/trajectories he saw fit. Only Foucault explained this much more eloquently than I just did. Does anyone know the quote I am referring to? What is it? I think it is probably from an interview, and it was in English (translation). Thank you so much! -Arthur

Foucault Studies - Call for Papers

Kevin Turner — 2008-03-30T05:48:41+05:30

Foucault Studies invites submission for Issue 7 of the journal scheduled for publication in December 2008. Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that publishes work about, and which uses, the ideas of the French thinker Michel Foucault. The journal intends to provide a forum for discussion of Foucault which go beyond received orthodoxies, simplifications and uncritical appropriations. To submit a paper, please email our Editorial Assistant, Kevin Turner: fsa.lpf@xxxxxx Please do not hesitate to contact either Alan Rosenberg (Managing Editor, Book Review Editor) or Sverre Raffnsøe (Editor-in-Chief) if you have any questions or suggestions. Sverre Raffnsøe Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18A 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel: +45 3815 2885 Fax: +45 3815 3635 Email: fse.lpf@xxxxxx Alan Rosenberg Department Of Philosophy Queens College The City University of New York 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367 ...

CFP: Ontology and Politics

paul rekret — 2008-03-26T05:04:20+05:30

With apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers: Ontology and Politics Conference Date: Monday June 16th, 2008 Location: Queen Mary, University of London Call for Papers Deadline: Friday May 9th, 2008 All enquiries and abstracts to: p.rekret@xxxxxxxxxx Keynote Speakers: Professor Simon Critchley, The New School University (USA) Professor Andrew Benjamin, Monash University (AUS) Call for Papers: Recent work in political theory has often revolved around the question of the relation between ontology and politics. For all of their differences, Derrida, Nancy, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, Laclau, Butler, Connolly, Zizek, Foucault, and Agamben (to name but a few) have sought to question the foundations of political thought, and also philosophy's relation to the political conditions within which it originates. While politics can no longer lay claim to secure grounds, the gesture of rethinking ontology cannot be separated or abstracted from the society from which it arises. The relation between ontology and politics i...

Foucault and Religion (and Introduction)

Edwin Ng — 2008-03-26T02:33:01+05:30

Hi all, I'm writing from Melbourne, Australia and have just begun working on a PhD. I'm aiming to explicate the ethico-political potentials of contemporary spiritual practices, through a close examination of a particular strand of "Western" Buddhism, to interrogate the thesis of the "postsecular" (suggested by writers like John D. Caputo and Mark C. Taylor, for example). I'm wondering if anyone has read Jeremy Carrette's Foucault and Religion: Spiritual Corporality and Political Spirituality and also his Religion and Culture, a collection of lectures, essays, and interviews by Foucault on religious ideas. What are your thoughts? Cheers, Edwin **

Re: Help

Nathan Widder — 2008-03-24T08:31:16+05:30

I did my PhD with a woman named Abby James (who sadly passed away a few years ago) and her dissertation was entitled "Democratic Discourse and the Oral Practices of Griots." As far as I know it was never published but if you can get access to dissertations from the University of Essex in the UK (it may be that there are electronic copies that can be accessed), it might be helpful to you. She may have also published some things, but I don't know. Nathan Dr. Nathan Widder Senior Lecturer in Political Theory Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Politics and International Relations Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX United Kingdom Web page: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/politics-and-IR/About-Us/Widder/Index.html Genealogies of Difference: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s02/widder.html -----Original Message----- From: foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foucault-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima Sent: 24 March 2008 10:38 To: Mailing-list Subject: [Foucault-L] Help Hi all. I am Isaac Tibasi...

Help

Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima — 2008-03-24T05:38:12+05:30

Hi all. I am Isaac Tibasiima. I am am MA student of Literature at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda. My research is on the use of Foucault's ideas on power and sovereignty in the analysis of an oral literature genre. For the start I have hypothesised that praise poetry which is the oral literature genre is a show of power relations among the ethnic group of people in Uganda that I am dealing with. An understanding of Foucault and how he develops his concept of the subject and the king or even among peers develops a complex relationship of power among the groups of people. What I would like to know is how probably I can incorporate especially Foucault's idea of the relationshi further and even question the views he presents basing on the society I'm dealing with. It should be noted that the language of praise poetry creates very unstable relationships and ideas about who is in power and who is not, which relationship I would see as purely Post Structuralist. Any help or divergence from this view is highly ...

Re: FW: Foucault-L Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima — 2008-03-24T05:36:28+05:30

Re: agamben foucault playing with law

Joao Chaves — 2008-03-17T13:08:16+05:30

Hi everyone, My Master thesis was about the "new form of right" ("nuovo diritto", "nouveau droit", "direito novo" etc.) mentioned by Foucault in his lecture of 14th January 1976, included in the course "Society must be defended" and the well-known text "Two Lectures". Here below is the abstract in English (the thesis was written in Portuguese), and I hope it can help to understand my opinion about this idea, although I hadn't read the Agamben book when I wrote it. Best wishes to all, João Chaves Catholic University of Pernambuco (Brazil) jfcchaves@xxxxxxxxxx CHAVES, João Freitas de Castro. The problem of a ?new form of right? in Michel Foucault: between resistance and the Outside. Master in Law thesis. Recife: Federal University of Pernambuco, 2006, 200 p. The subject of this work is the proposal of a ?new form of right?, as indicated by the French thinker Michel Foucault in one of the lectures of the course Society must be defended in 1976. Considering antiquated the present comprehension of Law, the author...

Re: agamben foucault playing with law

M. Karskens — 2008-03-17T10:17:53+05:30

Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Re: Technology of the Self

Erik Hoogcarspel — 2008-03-14T04:21:48+05:30

Joseph Cronin schreef: The amiguitiy of the subject has been proved. :-) -- Erik Info: www.xs4all.nl/~jehms Weblog: http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/blogs/blog.php?uid=2950 Productie: http://stores.lulu.com/jehmsstudio

Re: agamben foucault playing with law

martin hardie — 2008-03-13T18:13:50+05:30

Re: agamben foucault playing with law

s0metim3s — 2008-03-13T18:06:06+05:30

Re: agamben foucault playing with law

martin hardie — 2008-03-13T16:17:19+05:30

Re: Technology of the Self

Paul E. Mabrey III — 2008-03-13T16:06:02+05:30

I really like Ladell McWhorter's *Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization*.

Re: beginnings

David McInerney — 2008-03-13T15:53:06+05:30

Re: beginnings

Ian Morrison — 2008-03-13T15:52:05+05:30

Hi, Try Deleuze, Gilles. 1962. Nietzsche and Philosophy. Translated by Tomlinsen, Hugh. New York: Columbia University Press. Geuss, Raymond. 1994. Nietzsche and Genealogy. In Nietzsche, edited by John Richardson, and Brian Leiter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Owen, David. 2003. Nietzsche's Event: Genealogy and the Death of God. Theory and Event 6 (3) Ian Quoting sop01ok@xxxxxxxxxx:

Re: Technology of the Self

Joseph Cronin — 2008-03-13T15:19:26+05:30

I am attending a conference this weekend. I will be back in town Monday, March 17. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when return.

Re: beginnings

Joseph Cronin — 2008-03-13T15:10:44+05:30

I am attending a conference this weekend. I will be back in town Monday, March 17. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when return.

Technology of the Self

Ayelet Zohar — 2008-03-13T15:10:23+05:30

Dear all, I have been a silent participant for some time, but have an issue I would like to explore. Can someone recommend secondary sources that expand on Foucault's _Technology of the Self_? Thanks, Ayelet

Re: beginnings

Richard Clarke — 2008-03-13T15:04:19+05:30

See Edward Said's Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Basic, 1975. Sincerely, Richard Clarke Homepage: http://www.rlwclarke.net PhilWeb: Theoretical Resources Off- and On-Line (http://www.phillwebb.net or www.phil-web.net) Shibboleths: a Journal of Comparative Theory (www.shibboleths.net) Encyclopedia of Theory: www.literary-theory.net Philosophy's Other: Theory on the Web (http://philosophysother.blogspot.com) Shibboleths Discussion Forum (http://groups.google.com/group/Shibboleths) ----- Original Message ----- From: sop01ok@xxxxxxxxxx To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:24 PM Subject: [Foucault-L] beginnings Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me find more discussion of the notion of beginning / beginnings. it is used in Nietzsche Genealogy and History but not sure where else to look another thing - the concept of 'descent' as well is mentioned in NGH, are there any other places? Many thanks, Offra _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing l...

Re: FW: Foucault-L Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

Joseph Cronin — 2008-03-13T14:40:29+05:30

I am attending a conference this weekend. I will be back in town Monday, March 17. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when return.

Re: beginnings

Joseph Cronin — 2008-03-13T14:31:02+05:30

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FW: Foucault-L Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

Majia Nadesan — 2008-03-13T14:30:52+05:30

Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:52:49 +1000 From: "Scott Nicholas" Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality - a clearer explication of my argument for Henning To: "Mailing-list" Message-ID: <018901c88017$79f71c20$3df2ad3a@scott> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=response Hi Henning, governmentality incorporates technologies of power like sovereign, pastoral, disciplinary, and bio-power and therefore entails the associated methods for guiding individual conduct and managing the life issues of population .I agree with you when you say:"This allows for example the drawing together of all the many different ways power is exercised in a certain society and it enables to see patterns and interactions between these technologies."In this respect, Governmentality represents ...

beginnings

sop01ok — 2008-03-13T14:24:28+05:30

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me find more discussion of the notion of beginning / beginnings. it is used in Nietzsche Genealogy and History but not sure where else to look another thing - the concept of 'descent' as well is mentioned in NGH, are there any other places? Many thanks, Offra

Re: introduction

Joseph Cronin — 2008-03-12T20:55:06+05:30

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introduction

Tuan Phong Tran — 2008-03-12T20:49:06+05:30

Hi there, My name is Phong, I'm from Vietnam. Please include me in the Foucault list Thank you Tran Tuan Phong --------------------------------- Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address.

Pascal Dey ist außer Haus.

Pascal Dey — 2008-03-10T10:03:01+05:30

Ich werde ab Sa, 08.03.2008 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am Do, 13.03.2008. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten.

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previouse-mail)

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-10T05:49:25+05:30

Hi Henning, the use of the twin pillars would only apply historically from the emergence of as you say the interplay between individualisation and totalisation. It would incorporate the present and I would anticipate its applicability into the future. It is difficult to see at least for the forseeable future the logic of governance shifting in this regard. We still need subjects responsibly governing themselves by engaging in mass consumption. However, in a scenario where say the current international order was to fracture, either through conflict or bankruptcy, we may see the extension of repression within the first world as opposed to individualisation (i.e., disciplinary normalisation). For example, is Chinese subjection different to Anglo-American subjection? If this were to happen would Governmentality still apply? Would it apply if say 20% of the population were individualised while 80% were marginalised and repressed? regards Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. F." To: uo...

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previouse-mail)

H. F. — 2008-03-10T05:09:52+05:30

Hi Scott, thanks for the reply. There is no disagreement with nearly all of the points you mentioned. I definitely consider it fruitful using the governmentality approach in different historical contexts and especially for examining the present and future of our societies. I just wanted to distinguish the methodological proposal connected with the notion of governmentality (regard governing in a very broad sense as all forms of conducting conduct and try to find a rationality drawing together these diverse forms) from a different usage of governmentality. The term is often also used to describe the subject matter of a specific historical logic of of governing. That is the rationality of governing which follows the sovereign and the disciplinary logic, a historically new rationality of governing which aims in maximizing the powers of a population. Very often both meanings are drawn together incautiously. Herein also lies the (only) problem I see in your rendering of the concept. I would not give the two pilla...

Re: Governmentality - a clearer explication of my argument for Henning

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-06T23:52:49+05:30

Hi Henning, governmentality incorporates technologies of power like sovereign, pastoral, disciplinary, and bio-power and therefore entails the associated methods for guiding individual conduct and managing the life issues of population .I agree with you when you say:"This allows for example the drawing together of all the many different ways power is exercised in a certain society and it enables to see patterns and interactions between these technologies."In this respect, Governmentality represents as you say a "certain analytical perspective" or an analytic of the overall guidance of conduct - both in an individual and totalising sense. However, where I differ from you is when you limit its application to the present or as you describe:" (2) as a hint on the content of the contemporary rationality of governing." Foucault was as you say critiquing the present but my reasoning is that if certain assumptions are acceptable then Governmentality can be applied in non-Liberal and future contexts also. This is why...

Re: Governmentality

M. Karskens — 2008-03-06T05:08:13+05:30

Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Re: Governmentality

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-06T04:02:54+05:30

Hi machiel, note my responses in parentheses [ ] below Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Karskens" To: "Mailing-list" Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality [I completely agree and that is one reason why I am arguing that Foucault's Governmentality analytic remains relevant - disciplinary normalisation is an ongoing concern] Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list

Re: Governmentality

M. Karskens — 2008-03-06T03:33:41+05:30

Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Re: Foucault/Wallerstein

M. Karskens — 2008-03-06T03:17:42+05:30

Prof. Machiel Karskens social and political philosophy Faculty of Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previous e-mail)

French, William R. — 2008-03-06T03:02:22+05:30

Hey Scott. Good questions. I don't know enough about slavery, but some suggestions on repression: repression exists in modern government (by repression I assume you mean the juridcal power used in a negative sense, 'saying no.') To the extent that repression functions it does so within a field of intervention constructed by biopolitical knowledge, 'saying no' to life. For example, I think there is little question Fascist totalitarian included strong repressive elements while at the same time was conducted with scientific and biological rationality. Repression is simply recoded and supplimented, as with pastoral power, reason of state, the notion of race/nationality, security, etc. Another example would be classical liberalism's denying of natural rights among certain segments of the popular classes, "the mob." (natural rights being biopolitical or tied to the population through the political-economy.) a note on fordism to post-fordism, if I may: I think the idea that both are biopolitical is correct, without ...

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previouse-mail)

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-05T19:15:17+05:30

Hi Henning, I both agree and disagree with your assessment. Governmentality incorporates technologies of power like sovereign, pastoral, disciplinary, and bio-power and therefore entails the associated methods for guiding individual conduct and managing the life issues of population .I agree with you when you say:"This allows for example the drawing together of all the many different ways power is exercised in a certain society and it enables to see patterns and interactions between these technologies."In this respect, Governmentality represents as you say a "certain analytical perspective" or an analytic of the overall guidance of conduct - both in an individual and totalising sense. However, where I differ from you is when you limit its application to the present or as you describe:" (2) as a hint on the content of the contemporary rationality of governing." Foucault was as you say critiquing the present but my reasoning is that if certain assumptions are acceptable then Governmentality can be applied in n...

Re: Foucault/Wallerstein

Garnet Kindervater — 2008-03-05T11:19:43+05:30

Dear Bill, You might be right that Hardt and Negri "butchered" Foucault's concept of biopower in *Empire*, but it seems that their use of this concept is more of an updating (maybe a 'creation') than a dismemberment--probably resulting from a Deleuzian fidelity. And Negri seems to have clearly articulated reasons, however unorthodox. (If you still think you're missing something, cf. Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri, "It's a Powerful Life", *Cultural Critique* 57/2 (Spring 2004), 151-183; esp. pp. 165-6). And, though they fall under the aegis of International Relations theory, Mark Duffield and Julian Reid both have compelling arguments that centralize Foucault in understandings of the world political system. yours, Garnet

Re: Foucault/Wallerstein

Yasser Munif — 2008-03-05T10:38:18+05:30

Hi Bill, You should check the work of Anibal Quijano and Walter Mignolo. They both engage with Wallerstein and Foucault. For example Quijano's "Coloniality of Power" is the product of governmental world process. Best, Yasser Quoting "French, William R." :

Archives - L'apparition de l'idée de civilisation

Nicolae Morar — 2008-03-05T09:33:12+05:30

Hi there, I found this interesting radio show for those of you paying attention to this issue. Unfortunately, it is available only in French. http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/vendredis/fiche. php?diffusion_id=60323 Best, Nicolae

Re: Governmentality

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-05T08:54:10+05:30

thanks Isil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isil Baysan" To: "Mailing-list" Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previous e-mail)

H. F. — 2008-03-05T08:35:55+05:30

Hi Scott, as far as I can see, the term Governmentality carries a central ambiguity which is expressed also in your questions. I would claim that Governmentality is used (1) as a term to describe a certain analytical perspective and (2) as a hint on the content of the contemporary rationality of governing. So what you describe in your email is the analytical perspective the notion of governmentality is opening up. Concretely that is the question of 'How we are governed?' in a very broad sense at a certain time in a certain society. That is the first aspect the term governmentality is used for. "The twin pillars of governmentality" as you call them belong to the second meaning that is if the analytical perspective of governmentality is applied to the contemporary societies. The "governmentality of our present" indeed consists of technologies of individual guidance as well as of technologies of population control. So regarding your questions it is not only possible but quite promising to follow the research pe...

Re: Governmentality

Isil Baysan — 2008-03-05T08:21:34+05:30

Hi again, Scott, Of course, I know all of the books of Agamben translated/published in English. However that one was based on a lecture on "dispositif", entitled "Qu'est-ce qu'un dispositif?" which has been a special reading of governmentality and biopower. I searched for it via internet however I only could find its French edition. I hope it can be translated in english. Thank you for your response. Isil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Nicholas" To: "Mailing-list" Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previous e-mail)

gfuller1 — 2008-03-05T08:04:53+05:30

Scott, In terms of periodisation, albeit following Deleuze's society of control thesis, Jeffery Nealson's book, Foucault Beyond Foucault (2008), may be useful. It does not belong to the so called governmental school however. Rather, his argument regarding the concept of 'intensification' and the 'economy' of increasingly diffuse power relations as one way to interpret the trajectory of Foucault's work is certainly useful for me thinking about different elements of Foucault's work. He explicitly focuses on the shifts between fordist compositions of power relations to those of post- fordism and so on. Todd May has a review: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12364 I argue May's cetral point is problematic in this blog post (and which also contains a long quote from Nealson's book that captures a sense of the argument in FBF): http://eventmechanics.net.au/?p=1059 Ciao, Glen.

Re: Governmentality

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-05T07:32:12+05:30

Hi Isil, Agamben has published a number of books in the English speaking world but none of them are entitled "Governmentality." I was wondering if you might just confirm the title of the book to which you refer. thankyou Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isil Baysan" To: "Mailing-list" Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list

Re: Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previous e-mail)

Scott Nicholas — 2008-03-05T07:19:51+05:30

David, I am familiar with some of Lemke's work on Governmentality and Biopolitics. But thankyou for your reply. cheers Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "David McInerney" To: "Mailing-list" Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Governmentality -Take 2 (ignore the previouse-mail) _______________________________________________ Foucault-L mailing list