...Mark B. N. Hansen This essay stages an encounter between Michel Foucault’s work—especially his final thought concerning biopolitics, security, and population—and contemporary theorization of media’s experiential impact. The essay argues that the opportunity for such an encounter has been obscured...

...Carolyn J. Dean Michel Foucault’s shift to “biopower” away from his earlier conception of power as a form of constraint from which there is no clear path to liberation is the subject of the essays in this issue. In the context of this shift, these essays address from fresh perspectives Foucault’s...

...Ken Kawashima This article argues that Foucault’s analysis of ancient philosophy, ethics, and politics after 1979–1980 represents not only a discursive break or discontinuity with Foucault’s decades-long analysis of capitalism, but also an inventive series of techniques and practices to negate...

...Judith Revel Foucault’s work in the 1980s on the ancient Greek and Roman world, following a far-reaching analysis of the transformation and rearrangement of the economies of power between the beginning of the modern era and the 19th century, reoriented his thought from the analysis of powers...

...Benjamin Noys The work of the late Foucault, especially the turn to the care of the self and the problem of subjectivity, has often been regarded as a narcissistic withdrawal from politics. This essay argues that such a charge ignores how Foucault was responding to arguments highly critical...

...Gavin Walker [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Foucault Michel . 1981 . Remarks on Marx . New York...

...: Foucault, Agamben, and “Reproductive Rights” The condition of the living being about to be annihi- lated by death resembles the state in which we find ourselves in the maternal womb, or in the state...

...Claire Colebrook 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Claire Colebrook Certeau and Foucault: Tactics and Strategic Essentialism There must be a logic...

..., Althusser and Foucault, not unlike Lacan, propose similar models of reading that focus on what is visible yet invisible insofar as not fully recognized. However, Ricardo serves as a nodal point dividing Althusser’s and Foucault’s otherwise strikingly parallel modes of adjacent reading, or surface critique...

...Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism I n the History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault de­ velops his own interpretation of capitalist civili­ zation and its sexual discontents in opposition...

...Johanna Oksala The article investigates Foucault’s late thought and the resources it provides for contemporary politics. The aim is threefold: I will show (i) that Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism in the lecture series The Birth of Biopolitics should be recognized as part of his overarching...

...Gavin Walker We can detect two great or overarching thematics in Foucault’s work: through the publication of the first volume of the History of Sexuality a general interest in the modes of discipline according to which individuals are formed in accordance with the social order; and from 1980...

...Asad Haider Engaging contemporary critiques of Foucault’s politics, this article resituates his relationship to neoliberalism within the challenges posed by the experience of state socialism and social democracy in the twentieth century, which calls for a reconstruction of the relationship between...

...Yoshihiko Ichida Between Foucault and Deleuze-Guattari, there is a striking contrast on the notion of truth. While the latter elides it as a problem in their project of a “generalized pragmatics,” Foucault finds in it the key to link Anglo- American theories of the “speech act” to his analyses...

...Tim Dean This essay reconsiders biopolitical theory in relation to Michel Foucault’s pursuit of the problematic of pleasure during the final decade of his work. The question of pleasure straddles the temporal and methodological gulf that separates the first volume of his History of Sexuality from...

...Alberto Toscano Foucault returned to the text of Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannos at various critical junctures in his thought. This article homes in on the place of that tragedy in the passage from the analytic of knowledge-power to the problematization of government by truth that took place around...

...Jacques Khalip It has been more than twenty-five years since the death of Michel Foucault, one of the last century’s most crucial philosophers, as well as just as many years since the publication of the final two volumes of The History of Sexuality . Since then, an extraordinary body...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines Michel Foucault’s reflections on self-formation in the shadow of the insurrection of subjugated knowledges. If, as Foucault argues in The Government of Self and Others , the conditions of the otherwise lie in the radically potential spaces of a kind...

...Panagiotis Sotiris Michel Foucault’s texts in the 1970s, especially those on disciplinary power, have long been considered to represent a moment of dialogue with Marx. However, Foucault’s elaborations and research in the late 1970s and 1980s up until his death, presented mainly in the form of his...

... with Michel Foucault's discussion of capital punishment (which forms one part of his analysis of the nature of political sovereignty) and some recent work by U.S. legal academics that echoes Foucault's discussion (not always consciously), this essay attempts to show how such a shift from the moral perspective...