sabato 29 settembre 2012

Foucault Studies - Issue 14 - September 2012


Foucault and Queer Theory

Foucault Studies 14

Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory
guest edited by Shannon Winnubst & Jana Sawicki
Table of Contents
Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg, Ditte Vilstrup Holm


Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory
Guest Editors’ Introduction Shannon Winnubst, Jana Sawicki
’Foucault’s Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’ Mark D. Jordan
Foucault and Sedgwick : The Repressive Hypothesis Revisited Lynne Huffer
Empire and the Dispositif of Queerness Robert Nichols
Queer Economies Ladelle McWhorter
The Queer Thing about Neoliberal Pleasure : A Foucauldian Warning Shannon Winnubst


Interviews
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomonology and Power. Interview with Michel Foucault ; Recorded on April 3rd, 1978 Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Patton, Alain Beaulieu


Articles
Neosocial Market Economy Frieder Vogelmann
Confession, Voice and the Sensualization of Power : The Significance of Michel Foucault’s 1962 Encounter with Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lauri Siisiäinen
On Historicity and Transcendentality Again. Foucault’s Trajectory from Existential Psychiatry to Historical Epistemology Elisabetta Basso


Exchange
Discipline and Punish : Some Corrections to Boyle James I. Porter


Reviews
Jeffrey P. Bishop, The Anticipatory Corpse (Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) Harold Braswell
Thomas Lemke, Biopolitics : An Advanced Introduction (New York : New York University Press, 2011) Michael Lait
Jose Luis Moreno Pestaña, En Devenant Foucault : Sociogenèse d’un grand philosophe (Bellecombe-en-Bauges : Éditions du Croquant, 2006) & Convirtiéndose en Foucault : Sociogénesis de un Filósofo (Mataró : Montesinos, 2006) Michael Maidan
Jonathan Tran, Foucault and Theology (London & New York : T & T Clark, 2011) John McSweeney
François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari : Biographie croisée (Paris : Éditions la Découverte, 2007), translated as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari : Intersecting Lives (New York : Columbia University Press, 2010) Thomas Nail
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social : Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2011) Volha Piotukh
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (New York : Other Press, 2010) Joel Alden Schlosser
Arnold I. Davidson, Frédéric Gros (eds.), Foucault, Wittgenstein : de possibles rencontres (Éditions Kimé, 2011) Andrea Zaccardi

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EDITORIAL

Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Patricia Clough, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Jyoti Puri, Alan Rosenberg & Ditte Vilstrup Holm

In the volume, After Sex?, a meditation on the histories and possibilities of queer theory, editors Janet Halley and Andrew Parker rightly draw attention to Volumes I and II of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as crucial for all queer theory. But if these two volumes seeded this field, then it is Foucault’s contemplations on biopower and biopolitics, neoliberalism, governmen- tality that have continued to vitalize queer theory since then. Indeed, some of the most critical and generative interventions in queer theory insist not only on the centrality of sexuality as the “proper object” (after Judith Butler) but also trouble its parameters. This, we believe, is what is useful about Foucault Studies 14, a special issue on queer theory. The editors, Jana Sawicki (Williams College, USA) and Shannon Winnubst (Ohio State University, USA), offer our readers a rich selection of articles that think afresh the potentials of the History of Sexuality while engaging Foucault’s seminal influences more broadly through his work on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and other salient themes. It has been a pleasure to work with Jana Sawicki and Shannon Winnubst and we hope that readers will find the articles of interest and use.
Foucault Studies 14 also includes additional contributions, starting with the article, “Neosocial Market Economy” by Frieder Vogelmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), which addresses a methodological and a diagnostic question. Methodologically, it points out how Foucault’s lectures on governmentality—although often read as genealogical in character—rely on an “archeological dimension.” More precisely, Vogelmann demonstrates in a close reading how the genealogical focus on power struggles always already presupposes the archeological analysis of the formative systems of knowledge (savoir). In a second step this methodological frame is put to the test through the excavation of a uniquely contemporary form of govern- mental rationality: after classical liberalism, ordo-liberalism and neo-liberalism, neosocial market economy emerges. Drawing on recent developments in Germany, Vogelmann explores how a new form of the social has come to serve as a vehicle for denouncing the excessive self-conduct of individuals as championed by neo-liberalism. Neosocial market economy calls for a new ethically guided conduct that fuses the responsibility of the entrepreneurial subject for itself with responsibility for a network of communities. Read more on pdf

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