Ian asked 'Does anyone know of a genealogy of the factory?', snd there have
been two replies, so far:
1. I wrote 'Try part eight of volume one of Capital, by (what's his name
again!?!) Karl Marx' (Ian returned the objection that I expected: 'A
post-Nietzschean 'genealogy' was kinda what I was looking for. Thanks
anyway ...')
2. Stuart wrote 'Not quite a genealogy, but look at The Prison and the
Factory by Melossi & Pavarini (Macmillan, 1981)'
A proposition: Of these two suggestions, it is Marx's which is MORE
'post-Nietzschean' than the book by Melossi and Pavarini. Of course a
proposition like this is not likely to be taken seriously, although I am
not joking. I can only make the suggestion that we pose the question, and
some may want to follow this up (yes, dates of birth and death would be
really boring!).
As you are probably reading these for a specific project, I suppose that it
wouldn't take you too far out of your way to read both of the suggestions
(the section from Capital and the book by Melossi & Pavarini). Maybe
others who have already read both can help us. To assist us with this, NB
the Appendix which Melossi and Pavarini added in 1979 to the English
translation (pp. 191ff.), in which they explicitly comment on the relation
of their work to that of Foucault's D&P.
regards,
Campbell