Just to add to the mix:
http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcbiopolitics2.htm
I think that The emergence of probability and The taming of chance are great books in their own right.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:34:35 +1030, David McInerney wrote:
I think that The emergence of probability and The taming of chance are great books in their own right.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:34:35 +1030, David McInerney wrote:
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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