References
- Two thoughtful examples of this literature as it pertains specifically to neoliberalism are Jason Read, “A Genealogy of Homo-Oeconomicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity,” in Foucault Studies, 6(2009), pp. 25–36; and John Protevi, “What Does Foucault Think is New about Neo-liberalism?” in Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 21(2010), pp.1–25.
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978–1979, trans. G. Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 22. Hereafter BB.
- The Birth of Biopolitics lectures were delivered in 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain and a year before Ronald Reagan was elected President of the U.S.
- Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, trans. R. Hurley (New York: Random House, 1980), p. 139. Hereafter HS 1.
- Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977–1978, trans. G. Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 1. [Hereafter STP]
- Cf. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Random House, 1977), p. 154. Hereafter DP
- Gary Becker, “The Economic Way of Looking at Life,” http://home.uchicago.edu/gbecker/Nobel/nobellecture.pdf, p.38.
- Cf. Foucault, HS 1, p. 105: “Four figures emerged from this preoccupation with sex…”
- Todd May, Friendship in an Age of Economics, forthcoming, Lexington Press, 2012.
- François Ewald, L'Etat Providence (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1986), p. 10. All translations from this text are mine.
- Ibid., p. 384.
- Ibid., p. 403.
- I discuss this isolating effect of neoliberalism in Friendship in an Age of Economics.
- See, for instance, the remarkable discussion of the intimacy of normalization with racism and homophobia in Ladelle McWhorter, Racism and Sexual Oppression in America, (Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2009), passim.
- See, esp., Jacques Rancière, Disagreement, trans. J. Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), passim.