Elden Stuart - Foucaults Last Decade

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Names: Elden, Stuart, 1971

Title: Foucault's last decade / Stuart Elden.

Description: Malden, MA : Polity, April 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015032601 | ISBN 9780745683911 (hardback) | ISBN 9780745683928 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Foucault, Michel, 19261984.

Classification: LCC B2430.F724 E43 2016 | DDC 194dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015032601

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The initial impetus to work on Foucault's lecture courses came from Paul Bov, who asked me to write a review essay of Les Anormaux for the journal he edits, boundary 2, and then invited me to the University of Pittsburgh in 2001 where I spoke about Il faut dfendre la socit. Over the next several years, I wrote talks about, reviews of, or articles on each of the lecture courses as they came out, some of which I published, with the aim of eventually reworking them and bringing them together into a book. The text you are now reading is a much amended and transformed version of that initial idea. I am grateful for the enthusiasm of friends for this project, especially Ben Anderson, Neil Brenner, Sharon Cowan, Jeremy Crampton, Mick Dillon, Sophie Fuggle, Ben Golder, Colin Gordon, Peter Gratton, Bernard Harcourt, Laurence Paul Hemming, Jean Hillier, Alex Jeffrey, Morris Kaplan, Mark Kelly, Lopold Lambert, Stephen Legg, Eduardo Mendieta, Catherine Mills, Adam David Morton, Clare O'Farrell, Chris Philo, Sverre Raffnse, Alison Ross, Stephen Shapiro, Alex Vasudevan, Nick Vaughan-Williams and Michael Watts. Eduardo carefully read the entire manuscript and made many useful comments. Many readers of my Progressive Geographies blog followed this project and I am grateful for their interest. Some resources produced during this work are available at www.progressivegeographies.com/resources/foucault-resources.

The department of Politics and International Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at University of Warwick helped with funds for archive visits. At Polity Press, Emma Hutchinson understood the project and saw the proposal through to contract; John Thompson and Pascal Porcheron were supportive of its changing shape; and the reports from three anonymous readers helped to sharpen the overall argument as well as improve many points of detail. Susan Beer did an excellent job copy-editing the text, and Lisa Scholey compiled the index.

I have lectured on Foucault's work in a number of institutions over several years, and am grateful to audiences in Australia (University of Melbourne; Monash University; University of Sydney; University of Tasmania); Canada (Memorial University, Newfoundland); France (Abbaye d'Ardenne, Caen); Sweden (University of Stockholm); Italy (University of Palermo; Monash University, Prato Centre); United Kingdom (Aberystwyth University; Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution; Birkbeck University; Durham University; University of East London; King's College London; University of Lancaster; University of Leeds; University of Leicester; University of Manchester; Nottingham Contemporary Gallery; St Catherine's Foundation; Staffordshire University); and the United States of America (American Political Science Association conference, San Francisco; University of Arizona; University of California, Berkeley; University of Pittsburgh; Purchase College, State University of New York).

I am grateful to the staff at the British Library, the Institut Mmoires de l'dition contemporaine (IMEC), the Bancroft library at University of California, Berkeley, the Bibliothque Nationale de France, Bibliothque et Archives nationales du Qubec, State Library of Victoria, and the libraries of the University of Warwick, Durham University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, and New York University. James Bernauer, Dario Biocca, Mark Blasius, Peter Brown, Jeremy Carrette, Arnold I. Davidson, Arturo Escobar, Keith Gandal, Colin Gordon, Bernard Harcourt, David Horn, David Levin, Sylvre Lotringer, Mark Maslan, Michael Meranze, James Miller, Joseph Pearson, Paul Rabinow, Jamin Raskin, Jonathan Simon and Jerry Wakefield kindly answered questions in person or by correspondence. Several of those already mentioned, plus Natalie B (@160B), Sebastian Budgen, Graham Burchell, Michael Eldred, Mikkel Ibsen, Yoav Kenny, Patricia Lopez, Jacob Lunding, Ted Stolze, Andrea Teti and Philippe Theophanidis helped with getting hold of texts or recordings. I am especially grateful to Daniel Defert for his kindness over the years and a lengthy conversation in Paris in April 2015.

Parts of appeared as The War of Races and the Constitution of the State: Foucault's Il faut dfendre la socit and the Politics of Calculation, boundary 2, 29 (1), Spring 2002: 12551. Both are reprinted with permission of Duke University Press. Some of the overall argument was first presented as The Problem of Confession: The Productive Failure of Foucault's History of Sexuality , Journal for Cultural Research, 9 (1), 2009: 2341. Parts are reprinted by permission of Taylor and Francis.

As ever my greatest debt is to Susan for her love and support.

To ease reference, key texts are referred to by abbreviations. For texts where one book is translated in a single book, such as the lecture courses, the French page number is given first, followed by the English after a slash. So PP 105/103 would refer to the lecture course Le pouvoir psychiatrique, p. 105 in the French text, and p. 103 in the English translation Psychiatric Power. I have frequently modified existing translations.

In the text, English titles are used for books available in translation; French for untranslated works or unpublished manuscripts, though an English translation of the title is provided the first time they are used.