Reading Group Resources
Next Meeting: Sunday December 2@ 4:00pm. Ted F. to host.
Directions:
Readings.
1) Harvey
Spaces of hope Chaps on Baltimore. Optional: Appendix “Edilia,
or make of it what you will”.
Reviews of Harvey
The Nation “No Exit? Dream on” by Andy Merrifield
Utopian Studies Review by Bernard Morris
Capital & Class review by Neil Curry
New Statesman “Banging the anvil of words” by Lavinia Greenlaw
Village Voice Interview and profile “Maps and chaps”
New Left Review Interview and profile “Reinventing geography” Aug. 2000.
Review essays of his previous book Justice nature and the geography of difference.
Useful Links for Empire by Hardt & Negri
Full
text edition: Empire
Commentary
New York Times “What is The Next Big Idea?” by Emily Eakin
Barnes & Noble “Revolution on the Radar”
Yahoo! Discussion
Group “Generation Online” (Summer
2001)
Now moved to: new
server with archives
Negri's background:
“Amnesty
for Negri”
Notbored.org
“ The Relevance of Antonio
Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement”
The Observer (UK) “Empire Hits Back” by Edward Vulliamy
Executive
Intelligence Review “Toni
Negri, Profile of A Terrorist Ideologue”
[Lyndon LaRouche publication]
Interview
with Christopher Hitchens in Reason Magazine “Free
Radical”
[Excellent interview, makes similar points to Empire without naming
it]
New Left Review Fredric Jameson on Globalization
Reviews
New Criterion
“ The
New Anti-Americanism” by Roger Kimball
London
Review of Books “You
Can't Build a New Society with a Stanley Knife” by Malcolm Bull
[Replies: here]
The New
Republic “The
Snake” by Alan Wolfe
Harvard University Press collection of reviews
The first part of the essay we read “Truth and Juridical Forms” is available from the NYT online.
A very extensive listing of Foucault's shorter works by Dits et Ecrits number. By Richard Lynch.
April 12 and 19, 1983 “The culture of the self”. Lecture and Q&A.
Collège de France Lectures
As far as I know there are so far three Collège lecture series in print in French, with forthcoming English versions. As it says in French below, they are planning to do an exhaustive publication of these lectures.
Les anormaux: Cours au Collège de France (1974-75). Seuil 1999. Stuart Elden has also written a review, available through Project Muse if you or your library subscribes (GSU users: access from on-campus).
Il faut défendre la société: Cours au Collège de France (1975-76). Seuil 1997. May be forthcoming from Penguin Books, UK (used to be listed on amazon.uk but is no longer).
L'Hermeneutique du sujet: Cours au Collège de France (1981-1982). Seuil 2001. The editors say:
“Pour
étudier la formation en Occident d'une herméneutique de
soi, Michel Foucault analyse dans la philosophie grecque et romaine le
thème récurent du souci de soi. Le souci de soi est une
véritable activité, à laquelle il faut se livrer
tout au long de sa vie, et qui a une fonction thérapeutique. Pour
garder
notre maîtrise face aux événements qui peuvent se
produire, nous avons besoin de discours vrais et raisonnables, que Plutarque
compare à des médicaments. Mais comment faire en sorte qu'ils
se présentent d'eux-mêmes en nous quand cela s'avère
nécessaire ? Les méthodes préconisées par
les
Stoïciens ou les Épicuriens pour les assimiler sont examinées
ici avec précision. Il s'agit par ces techniques d'« armer
le sujet d'une vérité qu'il ne connaissait pas et qui ne
résidait pas en lui ».
Michel Foucault a donné pendant dix ans un Cours au Collège de France, dont le Seuil et les éditions Gallimard ont entre-pris la publication exhaustive. L'Herméneutique du sujet est le troisième volume publié.”
Definition of Terms
Catholic
Encyclopedia: the Sacrament of Penance.
The classic discussion of the Catholic confession (pub. 1913).
Perseus
Project (Tufts) word definitions in Ancient Greek:
technê
parrêsia
parrêsia
as used in Plato
I am also working on some short definitions of Greek terms found in the later Foucault. See here.
Notes by
JWC Towards Technologies of the Self