{"title":"Thomas Lemke, The Government of Things: Foucault and the New Materialisms. New York: NYU Press, 2021. Pp. 312.","authors":"Conor Bean","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi32.6709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi32.6709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45254096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foucault and Brown: Disciplinary Intersections","authors":"N. Clements","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi32.6701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi32.6701","url":null,"abstract":"From the 1981 “Sexuality and Solitude” to the 1982 “Le combat de la chasteté” to the 1984 History of Sexuality, Volume 2, Michel Foucault’s published works have long recognized the influence of the historian of late antiquity, Peter Brown. With the 2018 publication of Foucault’s draft of Les Aveux de la chair (Confessions of the Flesh) bearing no mention of Brown, the depth of this influence requires further elaboration. Despite Brown not appearing in the “Index of Modern Authors,” Confessions of the Flesh reflects Foucault’s debt to Brown for his readings of Augustine of Hippo and his conceptualizations of sexuality and subjectivity. \u0000Analyzing archival evidence alongside biographical narratives helps us better understand Brown’s vital influence as Foucault was shifting his History of Sexuality project, his archival practices, and his genealogy of subjectivity. Appreciating the textual and conceptual engagement between Foucault and Brown thus illuminates not only Confessions of the Flesh as Volume 4 in the History of Sexuality series but also the conceptual and methodological developments of both scholars in their disciplinary intersections.","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41429806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Forgotten Spanish Charity: Love, Government, and The Poor","authors":"Martin Bernales-Odino","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi31.6449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6449","url":null,"abstract":"The recently published book by Michel Foucault, Les aveux de la chair, challenges us to recognize once again the relevance of Christianity for the philosophical project of writing a historical ontology of the present.2 This paper follows that invitation and analyzes the articulation and legacy of the Spanish version of the Catholic doctrine of charity at the moment of its decline. During the eighteenth century, the articulation of the doctrine was based on urging the believers to undergo a transformation according to the complex love of charity. The first section of this paper analyzes the “practice of the self” that believers had to perform for undergoing such a transformation and thus realizing the truth act of charity. Section two studies almsgiving and “tribulation” as the two truth acts Catholic believers had to perform while dealing with the poor’s needs and poverty’s pains. In their respective and hardly compatible ways, these exercises of charity modeled not only a charitable believer but also made that believer a steward for others. Thus, they were critical pieces for forging a charitable pastorate, which formed a distinctive reciprocity between the members of the Spanish Catholic community of the eighteenth century. The third section of this paper will claim that the charitable pastorate was neither abolished nor forgotten when the Spanish Monarchy established the police of the poor—a new type of giving led by the State. Rather, the charitable pastorate became a building block for the Spanish police of the poor. Thus, this unlikely encounter between charity and the police","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45156386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Let those who have an experience of prison speak”: The Critique & Praxis of the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)","authors":"B. Harcourt","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi31.6458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6458","url":null,"abstract":"As the May ’68 revolution reached a boiling point, a remarkable assemblage of philosophers, writers, and incarcerated persons, doctors, nurses, social workers, and sociologists, activists and organizers, and militants in France turned their attention to the problem of the prison. At a time when prisons were mostly hidden from view, practically impenetrable in France to outsiders, at a time long before we recognized mass incarceration in countries like the United States, the Prisons Information Group (the Groupe d’information sur les prisons or the “GIP”) coalesced to spotlight the travesty of justice that is the prison—one that continues unabated today or, even worse, is exacerbated in Western liberal democracies. As I write these words, people are being violated, slashed, stabbed, and deprived of food and security at the jail on Rikers Island in New York City, with almost a third of the guard staff not even showing up for work.1 As of mid-October 2021, thirteen people imprisoned at Rikers have died this year.2 Our jails and prisons are broken—an intolerable crisis, as the GIP maintained already in 1970.","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44673506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenge to What Is: The Effect and Aftermath of Exposing Intolerable Conditions of Confinement","authors":"L. Ben-Moshe","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi31.6459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6459","url":null,"abstract":"This collection could not have come in a more prescient time. As the editors suggest, “The present volume is, at once, then, a historical archive, a conceptual challenge, and a tactical tool kit.”1 I will focus my comments on some tactical questions regarding the effect and aftermath of the GIP investigation on the intolerability of incarceration. What effect did it have on those incarcerated? On prison conditions? On the rationale of confinement? My own work focuses on the connections between prison abolition and anti-disability confinement, especially the movements of deinstitutionalization and anti-psychiatry. To me, this monumental collection/translation project highlights again the continuity of disability confinement – mental crisis in prison is a general condition not an exception, as seen by many testimonies; in addition, “prison suicides in France marked not only a symptom of these desperate conditions, but also a final form of protest and escape;”2 and the GIP, through Foucault’s work, also saw the connections to psych incarceration outside the walls of the prison (the psych information groups that I hope someone translates next..). The GIP (Prisons Information Group) “sought to make the intolerable physical, mental, and emotional conditions of incarceration visible in ways that provoked and supported public intolerance of them.”3 The role of the GIP, then, was: “to unite the interior and exterior of the prison in the same struggle.”4 In my work,5 I discuss the cumulative effect","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47076825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Friends and a Camera: Foucault, Livrozet, and the Guerilla Art of Documentary Film","authors":"P. Zurn","doi":"10.22439/fs.vi31.6457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38873,"journal":{"name":"Foucault Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46128163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}