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Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] looking for a reference: Hacking,
I. (1982). Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers.
Humanities in Society, 5, 279-295.
Well I do actually think that The Taming of Chance has a lot more in it on this theme of biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers than the book Martin posted a link to, even if it doesn't constitute an extended discussion of Foucault. Depends on what one is looking for.
His book on Representing and Intervening is the main one I have read, but I do own a copy of the Taming of Chance somewhere. I seem to remember an essay in The Foucault Effect on the theme as well
On 01/03/2012, at 3:51 PM, Chathan Vemuri wrote:
> The Taming of Chance didn't actually seem to have much on Foucault per
> say so much as a Foucaultianesque analysis of socio-political
> statistics in the vein of Les Mots and the later governmentality
> lectures years before they were actually released in French and
> English. Rewriting the Soul, however, discusses Foucault and biopower
> more explicitly, proposing to complement his two-pronged model of
> anato-power and biopower with a model of "memoro-politics" or
> "memoro-power" if you will. I suppose you'll find the gist of his
> argument from that paper in there.
>
> On 2/29/12, David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't have it but I suspect his book The Taming of Chance repeats its
>> arguments
>>
>>
>> On 01/03/2012, at 12:36 PM, Michael Andrew Babb wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm currently looking for a reference:
>>> Hacking, I. (1982). Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers.
>>> Humanities in Society, 5, 279-295.
>>>
>>> I've read people working with Foucault's ideas and I've seen Hacking cited
>>> for his work on statistics. I'd like to read what Hacking has to say about
>>> biopower. Unfortunately, my library does not have access to the back
>>> catalog of Humanities in Society.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a digital copy of the article?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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From: David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:34:35
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Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] looking for a reference: Hacking,
I. (1982). Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers.
Humanities in Society, 5, 279-295.
Well I do actually think that The Taming of Chance has a lot more in it on this theme of biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers than the book Martin posted a link to, even if it doesn't constitute an extended discussion of Foucault. Depends on what one is looking for.
His book on Representing and Intervening is the main one I have read, but I do own a copy of the Taming of Chance somewhere. I seem to remember an essay in The Foucault Effect on the theme as well
On 01/03/2012, at 3:51 PM, Chathan Vemuri wrote:
> The Taming of Chance didn't actually seem to have much on Foucault per
> say so much as a Foucaultianesque analysis of socio-political
> statistics in the vein of Les Mots and the later governmentality
> lectures years before they were actually released in French and
> English. Rewriting the Soul, however, discusses Foucault and biopower
> more explicitly, proposing to complement his two-pronged model of
> anato-power and biopower with a model of "memoro-politics" or
> "memoro-power" if you will. I suppose you'll find the gist of his
> argument from that paper in there.
>
> On 2/29/12, David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't have it but I suspect his book The Taming of Chance repeats its
>> arguments
>>
>>
>> On 01/03/2012, at 12:36 PM, Michael Andrew Babb wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm currently looking for a reference:
>>> Hacking, I. (1982). Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers.
>>> Humanities in Society, 5, 279-295.
>>>
>>> I've read people working with Foucault's ideas and I've seen Hacking cited
>>> for his work on statistics. I'd like to read what Hacking has to say about
>>> biopower. Unfortunately, my library does not have access to the back
>>> catalog of Humanities in Society.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a digital copy of the article?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>
>
> --
> Chathan Vemuri
>
> 900 58th Street
> West Des Moines, IA 50266
> chathan-vemuri@xxxxxxxxx
> (319)-512-9318
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