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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Police, Governmentality and Security

A bit from Mariana Valverde’s review essay of Foucault’s ‘Society Must be Defended’ and Securite, territoire, population lectures at the College de France from, respectively, 1975-6 and 1977-8. The latter series of lectures includes the infamous “governmentality” lecture. I wasn’t particularly impressed with Valverde’s discussion of ‘Society Must be Defended,’ so I haven’t included any [...]

Mickey

Apologies for the relative neglect of this “blog” over the past month. I would like to say that my neglect has its origin in doing productive work (for instance, revising & rewriting my dissertation proposal, writing that paper on Battlestar, preparing to teach, or otherwise engaging in career-enhancing productivity and assorted seasonal reflections), but, unfortunately, [...]