Politics: Left

Foucault and power

Discipline, biopolitics and how power really works.

editorial Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality picks are editorial.

  1. Discipline and Punish

    Michel Foucault

    The most accessible entry: the prison and the panopticon.

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  2. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

    Michel Foucault

    Power as productive, not just repressive.

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  3. The Birth of Biopolitics

    Michel Foucault

    Lectures on liberalism and neoliberalism.

    368 pp≈9 h●●● Demanding

    Edition: Picador · ISBN 9780312203412

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  4. State of Exception

    Giorgio Agamben

    Where the biopolitics debate went next.

    104 pp≈3 h●●● Demanding

    Edition: University Of Chicago Press · ISBN 9780226009254

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