Foucault and mobility/transport

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, and Daniel Smith

Part I Encounters
1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship - François Dosse
2. Theatrum Philosophicum - Michel Foucault
3. Michel Foucault's Main Concepts - Gilles Deleuze
4. When and How I’ve read Foucault - Toni Negri (translated by Kristopher Klotz)

Part II Method and Critique
5. Philosophy as Cultural Critique in Foucault and Deleuze - Colin Koopman
6. Foucault’s Deleuzean Methodology of the Late 1970s - John Protevi
7. Deleuze’s Foucault: A Metaphysical Fiction - Frédéric Gros (translated by Samantha Bankston)

Part III Convergence and Divergence
8. Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) - Len Lawlor and Janae Sholtz
9. Philosophy and History in Deleuze and Foucault - Paul Patton
10. Becoming and History: Deleuze’s Reading of Foucault - Anne Sauvagnargues (translated by Alex Feldman)
11. Foucault and the Image of Thought - Kevin Thompson
12. The Regularities of the Statement: Deleuze on Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge - Mary Beth Mader

Part IV Desire, Power and Resistance
13. Desire and Pleasure - Gilles Deleuze
14. Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem - Nicolae Morar and Marjorie Gracieuse
15. Biopower and Control Societies - Thomas Nail
16. Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and Deleuze - Dan W. Smith

Appendix
17. Meeting Deleuze - Paul Rabinow
18. Foucault and Prison - Paul Rabinow

A peer reviewed roundtable review and discussion of The Figure of the Migrant with important scholars in the field: Sandro Mezzadra, Todd May, Ladelle McWhorter, Andrew Dilts, Robin Celikates, Daniella Trimboli, and Adriana Novoa. Interview conducted by Mark Westmoreland. Responses by author, Thomas Nail.

Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances.
         
Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power—what Foucault called “sovereign power”—the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.

Contributors: Judith Revel, Antonio Negri, Catherine Mills, Ian Hacking, Mary-Beth Mader, Jeff Nealon, Eduardo Mendieta, Carlos Novas, Jana Sawicki, David Halperin, Todd May, Ladelle McWhorter, Martina Tazziolli, Frédéric Gros, Paul Patton, Nikolas Rose, Paul Rabinow, Roberto Esposito, Ann L. Stoler