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Power/Knowledge: Foucault & Frameworks of (Bio)Power & Governmentality

Clarisse Barbier & Cori Bender

  • Foucault - historical development of modern power
  • Rabinow & Rose - Importance of Foucault's theories in contemporary research
  • Agamben - Philosophical reflection on Foucault's The Hisotry of Sexuality
  • Hyatt - Neo-liberal governance and poverty
  • Lyon-Callo - Medicalization of homelessness

Foucault

Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984)

Quotes:

“Where there is power, there is resistance.” The History of Sexuality 1: An Introduction

“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

1950: joined the Communist Party for one year

1951: teaches psychology at Ecole Normale Superieur

1960 : Folie et déraison, histoire de la folie a l’age classique (History of Madeness)

1963 : Naissance de la Clinique : une archeologie du regard medical (The birth of the clinic : an archeology of medical Perception)

1975 : Surveiller et punir, naissance de la prison (Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison)

1976 : Parution de la Volonté de savoir, 1er tome d'Histoire de la sexualité (The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge).

1984 : Usage des plaisirs, 2e tome d'Histoire de la sexualité (The History of Sexuality 2) .

Du Souci de soi, 3e tome d'Histoire de la sexualité (The History of Sexuality 3) .

Died in Paris of Aids

Under the surface

Foucault Biopower & Governmentality

The Body of the Condemned

  • From execution to corporeal punishment
  • Reduced touching of the body
  • Body constrained but not tortured
  • Now economy of suspended rights
  • Army of technicians
  • Technology of the body (micro-physics of power)

Panoptisism

  • Surveillance and control - intensification and ramification of power
  • "They are like so many cages, so many small theatres, in which each actor is alone, perfectly individualized and constantly visible (200).

Author's Bios

Paul Rabinow

How did the plague give rise to the disciplinary project and confinement in society?

What does Foucault mean by a "disciplinary society"?

How does Foucault draw on Marx's concepts concerning capital accumulation?

What did the move from public spectacle to private punishment achieve with regard to power relations in a society?

Discuss the judgement of an offender's soul based on Foucault's argument about contemporary penal system.

What is the role of the material in how punishment is carried out and experienced?

Sue Brin-Hyatt

born June 21, 1944 - Ph.D.(1970) in anthropology from the University of

Chicago

Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC)

Books:

Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment 2003.

French DNA, Trouble in Purgatory 1999.

Essays in the Anthropology of Reason 1997.

Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth, Vol. 1 of The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984.

French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment 1989.

Vincent Lyon-Callo

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1996)

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Publications

Edited Book: Sex, Gender and Health, Biosocial Society Symposium series 1999;

Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1998

Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser Western Michigan University

Research interests

Inequality and resistance, political economy, homelessness, poststructuralism

Biopower - biopolitics

. Foucault: How has sex become a political issue? (biopolitics of reproduction)

. Agemben: Sovereignty: To what extend do actual governments still impose sovereignty and exercise the right of life and death? (capital punishment)

. Rose and Rabinow: biopolitics of race, reproduction and genomic medicine

Giorgio Agamben

  • How does Foucault's discussion in the video relate to Bourdieur's theories?
  • What is the difference between what Chomsky is saying and what Foucault argues?

Nikolas Rose

Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics informs many of his writings.

Born: April 22, 1942, Rome, Italy

Writings:

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995)

State of Exception. Homo Sacer II, 1 (2003)

The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Homo Sacer II, 2 (2007)

The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath. Homo Sacer II, 3 (2008)

Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty. Homo Sacer II, 5 (2013)

Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Homo Sacer III (1998).

The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms-of-Life. Homo Sacer IV

Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London.

Books

. Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind With J.M. Abi-Rached. 352pp. Princeton University Press (2013)

. Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life With P. Miller. 272pp. Polity Press (2008)

. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century 352pp. Princeton University Press (2006)

. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought 334pp. Cambridge University Press (1999)

. Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (2nd edition) 352pp. Free Association Books (1999)

. Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood Cambridge University Press (1998)

Building on Foucault...

Hyatt: Neo-liberal agenda and poverty

Are volunteers political subjects?

Medicalization of homelessness: the subjectification of destitute people.

Foucault's Relevance Today/ Contemporary Applications

How can Foucault's concepts of biopower, biopolotics, gouvernmentalities, problematization, subjectification, and knowledge apply in our research (HIV, Immigration, post disaster recovery, environment issues, gender differences, tourism, or ophanages)

Are Foucault's theories applicable across cultures with their different historical experiences?

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