Though I'm not sure which "governmentality lectures" Kevin means (Are
you thinkng of CdF '78 or '79, or of the Tanner lectures, or something
entirely different?), I would think from Kevin's characterization that
the diplomatico-military techniques are, at least in part, those
described in Part III of Discipline and Punish.
Richard
On 07 Oct 2004, at 04:46, foucault-digest wrote:
> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:12:49 +0100
> From: "Kevin Turner" <k.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: birth of governmentality
>
> At the end of the governmentality lecture, Foucault note's (at least)
> three conditions of possibility for the birth of governmentality:
> Christian pastoral, police, and diplomatico-military techniques.
>
> It is possible to reconstruct the first two from essays, lectures,
> etc.,
> presented elsewhere - so, my question is this: "does foucault talk
> about
> the diplomatico-military model anywhere else?"
>
> Is what he is talking about, for example, similar to what he has said
> previously in <<Society Must be Defended>>: re: the state gaining a
> monopoly on war, and thus eradicates day-to-day warfare or "private
> war"
> from the social body; or, as Foucault himself put it, 'war was both
> centralised in practise and confined to the frontier' (Foucault, 2003
> #239: 49).
you thinkng of CdF '78 or '79, or of the Tanner lectures, or something
entirely different?), I would think from Kevin's characterization that
the diplomatico-military techniques are, at least in part, those
described in Part III of Discipline and Punish.
Richard
On 07 Oct 2004, at 04:46, foucault-digest wrote:
> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:12:49 +0100
> From: "Kevin Turner" <k.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: birth of governmentality
>
> At the end of the governmentality lecture, Foucault note's (at least)
> three conditions of possibility for the birth of governmentality:
> Christian pastoral, police, and diplomatico-military techniques.
>
> It is possible to reconstruct the first two from essays, lectures,
> etc.,
> presented elsewhere - so, my question is this: "does foucault talk
> about
> the diplomatico-military model anywhere else?"
>
> Is what he is talking about, for example, similar to what he has said
> previously in <<Society Must be Defended>>: re: the state gaining a
> monopoly on war, and thus eradicates day-to-day warfare or "private
> war"
> from the social body; or, as Foucault himself put it, 'war was both
> centralised in practise and confined to the frontier' (Foucault, 2003
> #239: 49).