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610. Becoming and History: Deleuze’s Reading of FoucaultIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 174-199. 2016.
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32Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialismeContemporary Political Theory 21 (4): 150-153. 2022.
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19The Real Effects of RationalitySymposium 25 (1): 135-159. 2021.Two critical reviews of Discipline and Punish inspired an exchange between Foucault and some prominent historians in 1978. In the texts from this exchange, Foucault addresses their criticism that, by focusing on unrealized plans and programs, such as Bentham’s Panopticon, his book lacks a sense of historical reality. Foucault replies, first, that the true aim of his book is to explore the emergence of a new type of penal rationality, not to insist that the Panopticon itself has been realized. Se…Read more
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24Militant acts: The role of investigations in radical political strugglesContemporary Political Theory 20 (4): 164-167. 2021.
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53Foucault's concept of illegalismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 445-462. 2020.This paper reconstructs Foucault's concept of illegalism and explores its significance for his genealogies of modern punishment and racial formation. The concept of illegalism, as distinct from illegality, plays a double role. It allows Foucault to describe a ruling class tactic for managing inequalities and also to characterize an important vein of resistant subjugated knowledges. The political project of the prison is linked to a new crime policy that does not so much aim to repress illegalism…Read more
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23The Genesis of Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism: Accumulating Men and Managing IllegalismsFoucault Studies 25 274-298. 2018.Foucault’s contribution to the critical theorization of race and racism has been much debated. Most commentators, however, have focused on his most direct remarks on the topic, which are found in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and in the lecture course “Society Must Be Defended.” This paper argues that those remarks should be reread in light of certain moves Foucault makes in earlier lecture courses, especially The Punitive Society and Psychiatric Power. Although the earlier course…Read more
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44The Concept in Life and the Life of the Concept: Canguilhem’s Final Reckoning with BergsonJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24 (2): 154-175. 2016.Foucault famously divided the history of twentieth-century French philosophy between a “philosophy of experience” and a “philosophy of the concept,” placing Bergson in the former camp and his teacher Canguilhem in the latter. This division has shaped the Anglophone reception of Canguilhem as primarily a historian and philosopher of biology. Canguilhem, however, was also a philosopher of life and a careful reader of Bergson. The recently-begun publication of Canguilhem’s Œuvres complètes has reve…Read more
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9The Genesis of Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism: Accumulating Men and Managing IllegalismsFoucault Studies 25 274. 2018.Foucault’s contribution to the critical theorization of race and racism has been much debated. Most commentators, however, have focused on his most direct remarks on the topic, which are found in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and in the lecture course “Society Must Be Defended.” This paper argues that those remarks should be reread in light of certain moves Foucault makes in earlier lecture courses, especially The Punitive Society and Psychiatric Power. Although the earlier course…Read more
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35Power, labour power and productive force in Foucault’s reading of CapitalPhilosophy and Social Criticism 45 (3): 307-333. 2019.This article uses Foucault’s lecture courses to illuminate his reading of Marx’s Capital in Discipline and Punish. Foucault finds in Marx’s account of cooperation a precedent for his own approach to power. In turn, Foucault helps us rethink the concepts of productive force and labour power in Marx. Foucault is shown to be particularly interested in one of Marx’s major themes in Capital, parts III–IV: the subsumption of labour under capital. In Discipline and Punish and The Punitive Society, Fouc…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Michel Foucault |
Gilles Deleuze |
Poststructuralism, Misc |
Continental Philosophy |