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From: David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:51:31 +1030
Hi Bill
Jason Read wrote a paper on biopower in Hardt and Negri. 'The Hidden
Abode of Biopolitical Production: Empire and the Ontology of
Production', RETHINKING MARXISM Volume 13, Number 3/4 (Fall/Winter
2001 - special symposium double issue on Empire). I have it here
somewhere if you can't access it. His book _The Micro-politics of
Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present_ (State University of
New York Press, 2003) might also discuss it; Angela Mitropolous wrote
a review of it (and might be able to give you some opinion):
http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/mitropoulos_microphysics.htm
Jason's stuff is the only material on this that I can think of just now.
good luck with it all.
DM
On 05/03/2008, at 8:01 PM, French, William R. wrote:
Greetings,
I'm currently winding down on my BA thesis research, and about to
start writing. The topic is retheorizing the modern-world system
(Wallerstein et. al) and global social change from the perspective
of "social space" I extrapolate from Foucault's primary methods/
concepts (episteme, discourse, governmentlality, subjectivity).
I have been unable to find in any of the secondary literature a
discussion directly world-systems theory in relation to Foucault or
visaversa, which is no problem (the closest is Hardt/Negri
mentioning Arrighi's Long Twentieth Cetury in Empire). In the
primary literature, Focuault mentions Braudel (a major influence
for world-systems) and Wallerstein mentions but does not really
discuss Foucault on a few occassions.
Is there anything that I'm missing (secondary or primary)? Of
course, any other suggestions are welcome.
P.S. anybody have any commentary on Empire's use of biopower? It
seemed to me they sort have butchered the concepts application at
worst or were terribly unclear at best...but maybe I just missed
something.
Cheers!
Bill R. French
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