PDF-(READ)-Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography

Michel Foucaults work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research This book the first to engage Foucaults geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal Herodote in the mid 1970s The opening third of the book comprises some of Foucaults previously untranslated work on questions of space a range of responses from French and English language commentators and a newly translated essay by Claude Raffestin a leading Swiss geographer The rest of the book presents specially commissioned essays which examine the remarkable reception of Foucaults work in English and French language geography situate Foucaults project historically and provide a series of developments of his work in the contemporary contexts of power biopolitics governmentality and war Contributors include a number of key figures in socialspatial theory such as David Harvey Chris Philo Sara Mills Nigel Thrift John Agnew Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah Written in an open and engaging tone the contributors discuss just what they find valuable and frustrating about Foucaults geographies This is a book which will both surprise and challenge. 2002 Michel Foucaults Discipline Punish The Birth of the Prison ReaderWorkbook Stephen Shapiro While you read Foucaults Discipline and Punish Id like you to do a few things 1 Read with a pen in hand and notepa Right to life: production of power. In juridical power liberation is fight against subtraction and disobedience does not work. In . biopower. , resistance and oppositional activities augment the resisters’ power. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXb8c6jw0k&feature=related. . 10.56. Part 2 of 7 (start from 5 min in). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLQL-. dvKUWY. (10.35).  . Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part . , . C., 2009. Knowledge … is the process through which the subject finds himself modified by what he knows, or rather by the labor performed in order to know.. Remarks on Marx.  . Subjectivity: He argued that there is no self-identical subjectivity, i.e., no one person has a single identity through out life. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vx90PLATgk. Biopower: . T. he . operations of power that secure and defend the nation-state . as it circulates . within civil society . F’s . biopower. refers . to . 4. Deployment of Sexuality. Knowledge-pleasure. Demand for the truth of sex. Annex sex to the field of rationality. Sex as the explanation for everything (78). Technologies of power / power as law. Negative relation: power can only say “no” to sex. Arguments . from the articles in the Kit on University and Popular culture. University and Society. Popular culture. Intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism. A university is an institution of higher . (1926-84). Madness and Civilization: A History of . Insanity. in the Age of . Reason. . (1961). . Birth of the Clinic: . An . Archaeology. of Medical Perception. . (1963).. The Order of Things: . Edward Said, . Orientalism. . (1978). What is . t. he “Orientalism”? . An idea, produced both in and about the West, that holds principally that . the ‘East’ is both ‘other’ and inferior. Arguments . from the articles in the Kit on University and Popular culture. University and Society. Popular culture. Intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism. A university is an institution of higher . Right to life: production of power. In juridical power liberation is fight against subtraction and disobedience does not work. In . biopower. , resistance and oppositional activities augment the resisters’ power. MICHEL FOUCAULT. Michel Foucault. (1926-1954). Born October 15, 1926, Poitiers, France.. An early victim of AIDS, he died in Paris on June 25,1984.. French philosopher and historian, but also had a strong influence in humanistic and social scientific disciplines. Materializing Foucault?. Dr . Barbara Crossouard. Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), University of Sussex, . UK. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer. Two Provocations …. Accusation that Foucault reduced everything to ‘language’. Genealogy. and History of the Present:. The Prison Information Group. “In recent years, prison revolts have occurred around the world…. They were revolts, at the very level of the body, against the body of the prison … its very materiality as an instrument and vector of power. .