Hi Kaspar,
My name is Michael Blix. I'm a PhD student at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this course,
however it is very pertinent to a line of research that I'm pursuing. Will
any of the content be put online after the course is finished?
Thank you,
Michael
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Kaspar Villadsen <k_villadsen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Dear Foucault-list,
> Please see this call for the Ph.d. Course:
>
>
> Foucault, Governmentality,
> Biopolitics – Analytical strategies for critique of power (Ph.d. course,
> 11-13
> December 2013): http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> Faculty:
> · Jeffrey
> Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New York,
> USA.
> · Mitchell
> Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle,
> Denmark/Australia,
> · Thomas
> Dumm, Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA.
> · Marius
> Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS,
> Denmark.
> · Kaspar
> Villadsen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Management, Politics &
> Philosophy, CBS, Denmark.
> Place: Department of
> Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, Copenhagen
> Course Coordinators
> Kaspar
> Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
>
> Prerequisite/progression of the course
> Only
> PhD students can participate in the course.
>
> It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma
> that the PhD student attends the whole course.
>
> Aim of the course
> The
> course will provide the participants with:
>
> a)
> An updated introduction to key analytical concepts in the Governmentality
> literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of these concepts will be
> discussed.
>
> b)
> Possibilities for supplementing the governmentality approach with other
> analytical sources will be discussed.
>
> c)
> Furthermore, a detailed consideration of the current status of
> governmentality
> studies and post-Foucauldian studies will be given, in particular in light
> of
> recent claims for a crisis of critique.
>
> d)
> Finally, suggestions will be presented on how to elaborate or move beyond
> the
> framework of governmentality by activating concepts of bio-power and
> sovereignty, reconsidering the social and notions of society, and focusing
> on
> international dimensions of governmentality.
>
> In
> brief, the course aims to provide participants with a thorough
> understanding of
> the governmentality framework, that is, its analytical possibilities, its
> current status, and its possible directions of development.
>
> Course content, structure and teaching
> Over
> the last 20 years, post-Foucauldian “governmentality studies” have come to
> growing prominence. These studies have been effective in critically
> analyzing
> new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating ‘the active
> side of laissez faire’. They describe how the motto of ‘pulling back the
> state’
> has been accompanied by a series of governmental strategies and
> technologies
> aimed at shaping institutions and subjects in particular ways. Perhaps
> most noticeably,
> they have presented a diagnosis of a proliferation of regimes of
> enterprise and
> accounting in new and surprising places. But a wide range of other domains
> have
> been subjected to governmentality analysis spanning from genetic screening
> and
> risk calculation, new crime prevention strategies, to health promotion by
> self-responsibilization. To be sure, the concepts in governmentality
> studies
> continue to constitute effective tools for critical social analysis.
>
> Nevertheless,
> in recent years critical objections have been raised against the
> governmentality approach. It has been noted by some observers that the
> Foucauldian and post-structuralist language, originally used for critical
> academic purposes, seems to be increasingly appropriated by ‘the powers’
> that
> were the object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been voiced
> (although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and Hardt & Negri.
> These thinkers suggest that a post-structural ’politics of difference’
> increasingly seems to be an integral part of the ways, in which
> institutions
> and companies organize themselves. If modern liberal government has begun
> to
> speak for the dissolution of binary essentials, the destabilization of
> rigid
> power structures, the creation of space for the subject’s self-transforming
> work upon itself, and so on. In light of this development, we need to
> think of
> ways to revitalize the Foucauldian concepts of critique/criticism or to
> push a
> critical perspective beyond Foucault.
>
> A
> central theme of the PhD course is the search for effective analytical
> strategies for critique of power (some perhaps less noticed) in the works
> of
> Foucault and other writers within and outside the governmentality
> tradition. Of
> particular interest is Giorgio Agamben’s recent critique and extension of
> Foucault’s genealogy of government.
>
> The
> course requires the submission of a paper that deals with conceptual
> problems
> or analytical designs in relation to Foucauldian inspired/governmentality
> studies. Furthermore, papers that apply Foucauldian concepts to empirical
> problems in a variety of domains are welcomed.
>
> It
> is also possible to participate on the basis of an abstract stating the
> theme
> of the PhD project. An abstract should be approximately 1 page, whereas a
> paper
> should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the PhD student should state his
> main
> analytical challenge/concern at his/her current stage in the project.
>
> Papers/abstracts
> must be in English. DEADLINE is 2 December 2013.
>
> Lecture plan
> Time/period Faculty Title
> Wednesday 11th
> December.
> 10:00-12:30 Kaspar Villadsen Analytical approaches in
> governmentality studies
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13:30-16:00 Mitchell Dean Concepts of power:
> ‘The signature of power’‘
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean Papers from Ph.D.
> scholars
>
> Thursday 12th December.
> 10.00-12.30 Thomas Dumm Foucault, Neo-liberalism and Freedom.
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13.30-15.00 Kaspar Villadsen Technologies and organisations in
> Foucault’s thinking
>
> 15.00-17.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Thomas Dumm & Mitchell Dean Papers
> from Ph.D. scholars
>
> Friday 13thDecember
> 10:00-11:30 Jeffrey Bussolini Biopolitics: Foucault meets Agamben
> 11:00-12:30 Mitchell Dean
> Governmentality meets theology
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
> 13:30-15:00 Marius Gudmand-Høyer Dispositive analysis: the key
> concept in Foucault?
> 15.00-16.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Jeffrey Bussolini & Mitchell Dean
> Papers from Ph.D. scholars
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
> Concluding discussion and evaluation
>
>
>
>
> Teaching methods
> The
> course will use lectures given by specialists in the field, roundtable
> discussions, and presentation of papers from PhD students. Participation
> in the
> course requires a paper with an outline of PhD project or parts of the
> project.
> See more details above.
>
>
> Course literature
>
> Agamben, G. (2011) The Kingdom and the Glory: a
> Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Stanford University Press,
> especially pages 109-114; Appendix.
> Bussolini, J. (2010) ‘Critical encounter between Giorgio Agamben
> and Michel Foucault: Review of recent works by Giorgio Agamben’, Foucault
> Studies 10: 108-143.
> Dean, M. (2012) ‘Governmentality meets theology: the king reigns
> but does not govern’, Theory, Culture and Society 29 (3):
> 145-58.
> Dean, M. (2012) ‘The signature of power’, Journal of
> Political Power 5 (1): 101-117.
> Foucault, M. (2007) Security, Territory, Population.
> New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5)
> Foucault, M. (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics. New
> York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12).
> Villadsen, K. & Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the
> Talking? The proliferation of dialogue as governmental technology",
> in: Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
> Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing without the State and
> Civil Society as Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care across the classic
> sector divide",
> in: Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3.
>
> ECTS awarded
> 3 ECTS
>
> Language
> English
>
> Maximum and Minimum number of
> participants
> Min: 19
> Max:
>
> Fee
> DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee, tea, lunch and
> one dinner)
>
> Enrol no later than
> 1 November 2013
> Contact: See Link: http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
My name is Michael Blix. I'm a PhD student at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this course,
however it is very pertinent to a line of research that I'm pursuing. Will
any of the content be put online after the course is finished?
Thank you,
Michael
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Kaspar Villadsen <k_villadsen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Dear Foucault-list,
> Please see this call for the Ph.d. Course:
>
>
> Foucault, Governmentality,
> Biopolitics – Analytical strategies for critique of power (Ph.d. course,
> 11-13
> December 2013): http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> Faculty:
> · Jeffrey
> Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New York,
> USA.
> · Mitchell
> Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle,
> Denmark/Australia,
> · Thomas
> Dumm, Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA.
> · Marius
> Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. of Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS,
> Denmark.
> · Kaspar
> Villadsen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Management, Politics &
> Philosophy, CBS, Denmark.
> Place: Department of
> Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, Copenhagen
> Course Coordinators
> Kaspar
> Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
>
> Prerequisite/progression of the course
> Only
> PhD students can participate in the course.
>
> It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma
> that the PhD student attends the whole course.
>
> Aim of the course
> The
> course will provide the participants with:
>
> a)
> An updated introduction to key analytical concepts in the Governmentality
> literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of these concepts will be
> discussed.
>
> b)
> Possibilities for supplementing the governmentality approach with other
> analytical sources will be discussed.
>
> c)
> Furthermore, a detailed consideration of the current status of
> governmentality
> studies and post-Foucauldian studies will be given, in particular in light
> of
> recent claims for a crisis of critique.
>
> d)
> Finally, suggestions will be presented on how to elaborate or move beyond
> the
> framework of governmentality by activating concepts of bio-power and
> sovereignty, reconsidering the social and notions of society, and focusing
> on
> international dimensions of governmentality.
>
> In
> brief, the course aims to provide participants with a thorough
> understanding of
> the governmentality framework, that is, its analytical possibilities, its
> current status, and its possible directions of development.
>
> Course content, structure and teaching
> Over
> the last 20 years, post-Foucauldian “governmentality studies” have come to
> growing prominence. These studies have been effective in critically
> analyzing
> new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating ‘the active
> side of laissez faire’. They describe how the motto of ‘pulling back the
> state’
> has been accompanied by a series of governmental strategies and
> technologies
> aimed at shaping institutions and subjects in particular ways. Perhaps
> most noticeably,
> they have presented a diagnosis of a proliferation of regimes of
> enterprise and
> accounting in new and surprising places. But a wide range of other domains
> have
> been subjected to governmentality analysis spanning from genetic screening
> and
> risk calculation, new crime prevention strategies, to health promotion by
> self-responsibilization. To be sure, the concepts in governmentality
> studies
> continue to constitute effective tools for critical social analysis.
>
> Nevertheless,
> in recent years critical objections have been raised against the
> governmentality approach. It has been noted by some observers that the
> Foucauldian and post-structuralist language, originally used for critical
> academic purposes, seems to be increasingly appropriated by ‘the powers’
> that
> were the object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been voiced
> (although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and Hardt & Negri.
> These thinkers suggest that a post-structural ’politics of difference’
> increasingly seems to be an integral part of the ways, in which
> institutions
> and companies organize themselves. If modern liberal government has begun
> to
> speak for the dissolution of binary essentials, the destabilization of
> rigid
> power structures, the creation of space for the subject’s self-transforming
> work upon itself, and so on. In light of this development, we need to
> think of
> ways to revitalize the Foucauldian concepts of critique/criticism or to
> push a
> critical perspective beyond Foucault.
>
> A
> central theme of the PhD course is the search for effective analytical
> strategies for critique of power (some perhaps less noticed) in the works
> of
> Foucault and other writers within and outside the governmentality
> tradition. Of
> particular interest is Giorgio Agamben’s recent critique and extension of
> Foucault’s genealogy of government.
>
> The
> course requires the submission of a paper that deals with conceptual
> problems
> or analytical designs in relation to Foucauldian inspired/governmentality
> studies. Furthermore, papers that apply Foucauldian concepts to empirical
> problems in a variety of domains are welcomed.
>
> It
> is also possible to participate on the basis of an abstract stating the
> theme
> of the PhD project. An abstract should be approximately 1 page, whereas a
> paper
> should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the PhD student should state his
> main
> analytical challenge/concern at his/her current stage in the project.
>
> Papers/abstracts
> must be in English. DEADLINE is 2 December 2013.
>
> Lecture plan
> Time/period Faculty Title
> Wednesday 11th
> December.
> 10:00-12:30 Kaspar Villadsen Analytical approaches in
> governmentality studies
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13:30-16:00 Mitchell Dean Concepts of power:
> ‘The signature of power’‘
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean Papers from Ph.D.
> scholars
>
> Thursday 12th December.
> 10.00-12.30 Thomas Dumm Foucault, Neo-liberalism and Freedom.
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13.30-15.00 Kaspar Villadsen Technologies and organisations in
> Foucault’s thinking
>
> 15.00-17.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Thomas Dumm & Mitchell Dean Papers
> from Ph.D. scholars
>
> Friday 13thDecember
> 10:00-11:30 Jeffrey Bussolini Biopolitics: Foucault meets Agamben
> 11:00-12:30 Mitchell Dean
> Governmentality meets theology
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
> 13:30-15:00 Marius Gudmand-Høyer Dispositive analysis: the key
> concept in Foucault?
> 15.00-16.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Jeffrey Bussolini & Mitchell Dean
> Papers from Ph.D. scholars
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
> Concluding discussion and evaluation
>
>
>
>
> Teaching methods
> The
> course will use lectures given by specialists in the field, roundtable
> discussions, and presentation of papers from PhD students. Participation
> in the
> course requires a paper with an outline of PhD project or parts of the
> project.
> See more details above.
>
>
> Course literature
>
> Agamben, G. (2011) The Kingdom and the Glory: a
> Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Stanford University Press,
> especially pages 109-114; Appendix.
> Bussolini, J. (2010) ‘Critical encounter between Giorgio Agamben
> and Michel Foucault: Review of recent works by Giorgio Agamben’, Foucault
> Studies 10: 108-143.
> Dean, M. (2012) ‘Governmentality meets theology: the king reigns
> but does not govern’, Theory, Culture and Society 29 (3):
> 145-58.
> Dean, M. (2012) ‘The signature of power’, Journal of
> Political Power 5 (1): 101-117.
> Foucault, M. (2007) Security, Territory, Population.
> New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5)
> Foucault, M. (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics. New
> York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12).
> Villadsen, K. & Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the
> Talking? The proliferation of dialogue as governmental technology",
> in: Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
> Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing without the State and
> Civil Society as Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care across the classic
> sector divide",
> in: Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3.
>
> ECTS awarded
> 3 ECTS
>
> Language
> English
>
> Maximum and Minimum number of
> participants
> Min: 19
> Max:
>
> Fee
> DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee, tea, lunch and
> one dinner)
>
> Enrol no later than
> 1 November 2013
> Contact: See Link: http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list