Defending society from the abnormal: The archaeology of bio-power

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-91

  Stone, Brad Elliott ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33750706587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18325203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i1.567     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976, trans.
2. David Macey, English series ed. Arnold I. Davidson (New York: Picador, 2003). Future references to this text will be made as SMD followed by the English translation page number.
3. Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975, trans. Graham Burchell, English series ed. Arnold I. Davidson (New York: Picador, 2003). Future references to this text will be made as AB followed by the English translation page number.
4. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon, 1972), 23-24; emphasis mine
5. Cf. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Pt. II-III.
6. As we know from The Order of Things, Foucault is very suspicious about the mixed nature of things in the Modern epistémè. Cf. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1970), Ch. 9.
7. Cf. AB 111-112. The idea that the interest must be punished (and not the crime directly) is further explained in Discipline and Punish. Cf. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1977), 94.
8. Cf. AB 21-23. All three of these functions correspond to the discussion Foucault has at the beginning of Discipline and Punish. Cf. Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 19-23.
9. Cf. AB 242, 299-305. I am using the term "archaeology of psychiatry" from The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
10. when Foucault states that an archaeology of psychiatry would amount to a discussion of sexuality. Cf. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1978), 130.
11. SMD 55-56. It is interesting to note that this new history is quite similar to Foucault s description of "effective history" in "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." Cf. "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), §§6-7.