Michel Foucault/Reading group/13 April 2011

Readings to be discussed

1. The Birth of Bio-Politics – Michel Foucault's Lecture at the Collège de France on Neo-Liberal Governmentality
2. Full-text: Birth of Biopolitics Chapter 1
3. Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 1 of 7

Participants

1. Robyn Faulkner
2. Leighblackall
3. Diane Phillips
4. Phil Hutchinson

Notes

Links to key points raised today. It'd be nice if we could add a sentence or two next to each link, to assist easing into such reading...

• The Wealth of Nations
• Anarchy
• So Long Sucker - Game theory, applied in Cold War, ultimate in individual motivation
• Adam Curtis
• Neoliberalism
• Jürgen Habermas
• Academic capitalism
• Historical materialism
• Michel de Certeau
• perruque
• Governmentality
• Geneaology - Foucault
• Archeology - Foucault
• Discourse & Practice = Discursive Formation