Re: [Foucault-L] looking for a reference: Hacking, I. (1982). Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers. Humanities in Society, 5, 279-295.

[John Nève <neve.john@xxxxxxxxx>]

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>  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:
> > 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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