Foucault and the History of Our Present

Alain Brossat, University of Paris VIII, France Laura Cremonesi Sophie Fuggle, Nottingham Trent University, UK Orazio Irrera, University of Paris I, France Yari Lanci, University of London, UK Daniele Lorenzini, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy Mark Neocleous, Brunel University, UK Saul Newman, University of London, UK Mathieu Renault, Université Paris 13 Nord/Sorbonne Paris Cité, France Judith Revel, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Sanjay Seth, University of London, UK Federica Sossi, University of Bergamo, Italy Martina Tazzioli, University of Oulu, Finland Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy Alberto Toscano, University of London, UK William Walters, Carleton University, Canada

“The essays in this volume explore many interesting and important themes and events and show how Foucauldian analytics may be used to understand and interpret the history of our many presents. ... the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to those looking to use Foucault’s concepts and methodology to understand contemporary situations. Each offers us new ways of understanding, theorizing and resisting the power relations still in operation today.” (Jordan Liz, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, August, 2016)

• Introduction; Martina Tazzioli, Sophie Fuggle, and Yari Lanci PART I: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT 1. 'What Are We at the Present Time?' Foucault and the Question of the Present; Judith Revel 2. What is Capitalist Power? Reflections on 'Truth and Juridical Forms'; Alberto Toscano: 3. Foucault in India; Sanjay Seth 4. 'Critique Will Be the Art of Voluntary Inservitude': Foucault, La Boetie and the Problem of Freedom; Saul Newman PART II: SPACES OF GOVERNMENTALITY 5. The Other Space of Police Power; or, Foucault and the No-Fly Zone; Mark Neocleous 6. On the Road with Michel Foucault: Migration, Deportation and Viapolitics; William Walters 7. Securing the Social: Foucault and Social Networks; Tiziana Terranova PART III: TROUBLING SUBJECTIVITIES 8. Human Pastorate and 'la vie bete'; Alain Brossat 9. Beyond Slogans and Snapshots: The Story of the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons; Sophie Fuggle 10. Troubling Mobilities. Foucault and the Hold's over 'Unruly' Movements and Life Time; Martina Tazzioli PART IV: POLITICS OF TRUTH 11. Environmentality and Colonial Biopolitics. Toward a Postcolonial Genealogy of Environmental Subjectivities; Orazio Irrera 12. Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault on Spiritual Exercises: Transforming the Self, Transforming the Present; Laura Cremonesi 13. A Decolonizing Alethurgy. Foucault after Fanon; Matthieu Renault 14. Ethics as Politics. Foucault, Hadot, Cavell and the Critique of Our Present; Daniele Lorenzini 15. Interview with Judith Butler: Resistance and Vulnerability; Federica Sossi and Martina Tazzioli