Hi Sean:
I thought that "Minority Report" was quite
Foucauldian. In addition to a rather literal
embodiment of the 'gaze' - the supremacy of sight as a
way of identification of political subjects - I
thought that the film played on biosociality (in as
much as we conceive of biosociality as a project of
discovering the future, contrasting it to the
sociobiology as a project of discovering the past).
Alex.
P.S. Also, but less so, "Amelie." The book of
photographs in the film is a spin-off of Foucault's
book of the same kind - the director says so in one of
the special features on the DVD.
--- Sean Saraka <saraka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm teaching an upper-year seminar on Foucault and
> biopolitics (broadly
> conceived) this coming fall, and I was thinking
> maybe I'd show a few films.
> The first and best thing that comes to mind for me
> is Todd Haynes's "Safe."
> Do listmembers have other suggestions for films that
> would resonate with the
> concept of biopolitics, or on Foucauldian themes
> more generally?
>
> Thanking you in advance...
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean
>
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> Department of Political Science
> Mount Allison University
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I thought that "Minority Report" was quite
Foucauldian. In addition to a rather literal
embodiment of the 'gaze' - the supremacy of sight as a
way of identification of political subjects - I
thought that the film played on biosociality (in as
much as we conceive of biosociality as a project of
discovering the future, contrasting it to the
sociobiology as a project of discovering the past).
Alex.
P.S. Also, but less so, "Amelie." The book of
photographs in the film is a spin-off of Foucault's
book of the same kind - the director says so in one of
the special features on the DVD.
--- Sean Saraka <saraka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm teaching an upper-year seminar on Foucault and
> biopolitics (broadly
> conceived) this coming fall, and I was thinking
> maybe I'd show a few films.
> The first and best thing that comes to mind for me
> is Todd Haynes's "Safe."
> Do listmembers have other suggestions for films that
> would resonate with the
> concept of biopolitics, or on Foucauldian themes
> more generally?
>
> Thanking you in advance...
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean
>
> ----
> Sean Saraka, Asssistant Professor
> Department of Political Science
> Mount Allison University
> 144 Main Street
> Sackville, New Brunswick
> Canada E4L 1A7
>
> Phone (506) 364-2206
> Fax (506) 364-2625
>
>
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>
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