Name: Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists by Center for the Humanities in Biopolitics
Duration: 1 h 27 min 45 s
Description: Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists

Biopolitics

The opening session of the Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Working Group provides a space for discussion of the lasting insights, limitations, and potential applications of Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79. Linking neoliberalism and biopolitics at both the historical and conceptual level, Foucault’s prescient lecture series lays the groundwork for the working group’s concern with the contemporary management of populations through diverse practices of economization, privatization, and financialization.

Hans Sluga is a Professor of Philosophy and William Callison is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  More information can be found at criticaltheory.berkeley.edu.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics | Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics... | Hans Sluga | 9/17/14


The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Banu Bargu, Response by Judith Butler | 2/27/15

The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi. 

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Michel Feher, Response by Albena Azmanova | 2/27/15

The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Étienne Balibar | 2/28/15

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Bernard Harcourt, Response by Jonathan Simon | 2/27/15

Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists