Foucault and the Modern International
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| ISBN-13 | 9781137561534 |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2017 - 2017 |
| Language | EN |
| Impact factor | 2 |
Foucault and the Modern International
The Word and the Things
Few terms have been stretched as far or proved to be as infinitely extendable as the word “globalization.” It is a notion that refers to a project, to firmly established beliefs. This is what gives the notion of globalization the configuration of a new totalizing ideology, lending support and legitimacy to neoliberal reordering of the world. It is indissolubly linked to the techno-determinist ideology of communication. In the end, we lose sight o…
Foucault and Geometrics
This chapter develops a parallel project to Foucault’s predominant interest in biopolitics, in relation to geopolitics. It suggests that the latter can be understood in a related way, and drawing on Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Elizabeth Grosz and others, suggests a threefold relation between geopower, geopolitics and geometrics. The point is not to suggest that geopolitics trumps biopolitics, but that the two registers can and should be under…
On Liberalism
Between January and early April 1979, Foucault delivered a course entitled The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de France that contains a number of features distinguishing it from the rest; it is the only one that refers directly to historical sequences from the twentieth century, but also to burning issues of the day, while there is discrepancy between course title and content: biopolitics did not figure in it, and it dealt with liberalism in…
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Foucault and the Modern International
The Word and the Things
Few terms have been stretched as far or proved to be as infinitely extendable as the word “globalization.” It is a notion that refers to a project, to firmly established beliefs. This is what gives the notion of globalization the configuration of a new totalizing ideology, lending support and legitimacy to neoliberal reordering of the world. It is indissolubly linked to the techno-determinist ideology of communication. In the end, we lose sight o…
Foucault and Geometrics
This chapter develops a parallel project to Foucault’s predominant interest in biopolitics, in relation to geopolitics. It suggests that the latter can be understood in a related way, and drawing on Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Elizabeth Grosz and others, suggests a threefold relation between geopower, geopolitics and geometrics. The point is not to suggest that geopolitics trumps biopolitics, but that the two registers can and should be under…
On Liberalism
Between January and early April 1979, Foucault delivered a course entitled The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de France that contains a number of features distinguishing it from the rest; it is the only one that refers directly to historical sequences from the twentieth century, but also to burning issues of the day, while there is discrepancy between course title and content: biopolitics did not figure in it, and it dealt with liberalism in…