[manuscript for presentation at Stony Brook] To Have No Face: Introduction Like so many Foucault conference papers start with an epigraphical quotation of Deleuze, I will, in turn, start mine with a quote from Michel Foucault: do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing – with…
We Stand Without Apology Before a Resigned Philosophy: The history of philosophy is, among many other things, a history of an articulation of a world disclosed exclusively through increasingly refined notions of capacity and ability. In an insurgent context, this would not be a controversial claim. But there is no place in insurgency among those…
[Manuscript from a talk delivered at the centennial celebration of Foucault at Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6] Introduction: For the past two years, my focus has been investigating what my friends and I have described as “eugenic modernity.” I have examined this, first, from the position of neoliberalism and biopolitics, then from the state…
In Foucault’s consequential lecture series written at the height of the formative time in his development of genealogy, “Society Must Be Defended”, there is a short interlude that demands some meditation – especially in our time.There was a moment, in that constant war of political philosophy in the Early Modern period, where Homo oeconomicus was,…
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