Foucault and Neoliberalism–Some helpful links

An und für sich announced it will host a roundtable discussion on Foucault and neoliberalism occasioned by Daniel Zamora’s interview at Jacobin critiquing Foucault as a proto-neoliberal. Like the biannual Heidegger affairs, this seems to be something that has gone on every few years since Maoist critiques of Foucault in the mid-70s when, aghast, someone discovers Foucault wasn’t a Marxist (as he makes clear in Discipline and Punish and elsewhere he thinks capitalism is the result of power/knowledge shifts he is analyzing, such as disciplinary and bio-power, not the latter’s cause). AUFS says the writers will respond to Daniel Zamora’s original interview at Jacobin and include Verena Erlenbusch (Memphis), Gordon Hull (UNCC), Thomas Nail (Denver), and Johanna Oksala (Helsinki). In addition to the helpful links on the AUFS announcement page, there’s (via Stuart Elden) Étienne Balibar on Foucault’s La société punitive and his relation to Marx, with a response from Judith Butler (audio files). as well as the recent (October 2014) special issue of Foucault Studies on “Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities” and, before that, the 2009 special issue of FS on “Neoliberal Governmentalities,”

Introduction	PDF
Michelle Brady	5-10

Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities: from the neoliberal apparatus to neoliberalism and governmental assemblages	PDF
Michelle Brady	11-33

Fixing Non-market Subjects: Governing Land and Population in the Global South	PDF
Tania Murray Li	34-48

Neo‐Liberalism, Police, and the Governance of Little Urban Things	PDF
Randy K. Lippert	49-65

The Grassroots and the Gift: Moral Authority, American Philanthropy, and Activism in Education	PDF
Katharyne Mitchell, Chris Lizotte	66-89

Resisting the lure of the paycheck: Freedom and dependence in financial self-help	PDF
Daniel Fridman	90-112

The 2009 issue:

Foucault and the Invisible Economy	PDF
Ute Tellmann	5-24

A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity	PDF
Jason Read	25-36

Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethics	PDF
Trent H. Hamann	37-59

The Work of Neoliberal Governmentality: Temporality and Ethical Substance in the Tale of Two Dads	PDF
Sam Binkley