Foucault

Michel Foucault and the Coloniality of Power

Santiago Castro-Gómez scastro@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana/ Instituto Pensar (Colombia) Abstract: Contrary to most of the statements associated with postcolonial studies and to some versions of the modernity/coloniality perspective, this article argues for the relevance of a hierarchic theory of power, inspired by Foucault’s lesser commonly read Lessons in the College of France, to understand the […]

“To make live and to let die”: Foucault on Racism

Eduardo Mendieta eduardo.mendieta@stonybrook.edu SUNY, Stony Brook (USA) Abstract: This article considers Foucault’s Collège de France seminar from 1975-6, entitled Il faut défendre la société, or Society must be Defended. The article does not aim to summarize the course, but rather to discern a constellation of radical departures in Foucault’s thinking. We focus on the severe […]

Questions of Method: “Eventualization” and Problematization in Foucault

Eduardo Restrepo eduardoa.restrepo@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Eventualization and problematization are categories proposed by Foucault that have not had the same impact as others of his concepts, such as biopolitics, governmentality, and genealogy. Whereas the latter notions have become part of the contemporary theoretical imaginary (mostly in the United States) and are used in […]

Ethics in Michel Foucault or the Possibility of Resistance

Reinaldo Giraldo regiraldo@hotmail.com Universidad Central del Valle del Cauca, Colombia Abstract: In this paper I maintain the hypothesis that Michel Foucault’s studies do not lead to a negative thought, a circular one, with no alternatives or to a dead-end. Dissolving the notion of constituing subject allows the French thinker to make permanent shifts and open […]

Analytics of the modern: An introduction

Jonathan Xavier Inda jxinda@illinois.edu University of Illinois Abstract: This text posits the relevance of addressing modernity as an ethnographic object, that is, to examine it from situated discourses and practices. Such an ethnography draws on a Foucaultian approach with governmentality as a key category. From this perspective, an approach is put forward examining three analytical […]

Territorial coloniality: to analyse Foucault within the bounds of metropoli deterritorialization. Notes from La Habana

Yasser Farrés Delgado  yasserfarres@gmail.com Universidad de Granada, España Alberto Matarán Ruiz mataran@ugr.es Universidad de Granada, España Abstract: In defining panoptism, Foucault was demonstrating spatial conceptions contain power issues. That view may be useful to establish interdisciplinary dialogues so as to build a critical theory on the contemporary notions of territory, city and architecture, but this […]