Would someone be able to comment in relation to Donzelot's
conceptualisaton of 'technologies', 'programs' and 'strategies' in
relation to Foucault's conceptualisations of the same terms? I notice
that Donzelot's article using these terms came out the same year that
Foucault published his well-known article on Governmentality, and i
wonder what the connections are.
Many thanks, the extract is below with references. Jill
The following quote is from O'Malley, P. 1996, 'Risk and
responsibility', in Foucault and political reason, eds A. Barry, T.
Osborne and N. Rose, University College Press (UCL), London, pp.
189-207.
That article is citing from an article Donzelot, J. 1979, 'The poverty
of political culture', Ideology and Consciousness, vol. 5, pp. 71-86.
I haven't been able to get the Donzelot article from the library, am
waiting for it to arrive on interlibrary loan.
?In this conceptualization, technologies, of which the panopticon and
insurance are examples, emerge as ?always local and multiple,
intertwining, coherent or contradictory forms of activating and managing
a population? (Donzelot 1979). Technologies, although they have their
own dynamics, nevertheless develop primarily in terms of their role in
relation to specific political programmes. Political programmes focus
upon doing something about a ?practicable object?, for example the
reduction of levels of unemployment, rates of crime or youth
homelessness. They are recipes ?for corrective intervention ? [and]
redirection?. In turn, such programmes are formed in terms of more
abstract strategies - ?formulae of government, theories which explain
reality only to the extent that they enable the implementation of a
program? (Donzelot 1979: 77). Keynesianism and laissez-faire liberalism
provide examples of the latter.' (O?Malley 1996, p. 193)
conceptualisaton of 'technologies', 'programs' and 'strategies' in
relation to Foucault's conceptualisations of the same terms? I notice
that Donzelot's article using these terms came out the same year that
Foucault published his well-known article on Governmentality, and i
wonder what the connections are.
Many thanks, the extract is below with references. Jill
The following quote is from O'Malley, P. 1996, 'Risk and
responsibility', in Foucault and political reason, eds A. Barry, T.
Osborne and N. Rose, University College Press (UCL), London, pp.
189-207.
That article is citing from an article Donzelot, J. 1979, 'The poverty
of political culture', Ideology and Consciousness, vol. 5, pp. 71-86.
I haven't been able to get the Donzelot article from the library, am
waiting for it to arrive on interlibrary loan.
?In this conceptualization, technologies, of which the panopticon and
insurance are examples, emerge as ?always local and multiple,
intertwining, coherent or contradictory forms of activating and managing
a population? (Donzelot 1979). Technologies, although they have their
own dynamics, nevertheless develop primarily in terms of their role in
relation to specific political programmes. Political programmes focus
upon doing something about a ?practicable object?, for example the
reduction of levels of unemployment, rates of crime or youth
homelessness. They are recipes ?for corrective intervention ? [and]
redirection?. In turn, such programmes are formed in terms of more
abstract strategies - ?formulae of government, theories which explain
reality only to the extent that they enable the implementation of a
program? (Donzelot 1979: 77). Keynesianism and laissez-faire liberalism
provide examples of the latter.' (O?Malley 1996, p. 193)