Theme for AY 25-26: Work and Labor
Fall Term Reading Course: Work and Labor in
Foucault’s Writings, 1966-1979
Week Reading
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1
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The Order
of Things (1966) - Part II, ch. 7 – “The Limits of Representations,” esp. sections 1 (introduction) and 2 (on
the introduction of labor to political economy and, specifically, Adam
Smith), pp. 217-226.
- Part II, ch. 8 – “Labour, Life, Language,” esp. sections 1 (introduction to new
empiricities) and 2 (on Ricardo, Smith and Quesney), pp. 250-263.
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2
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The
Punitive Society (1972-73, posth. pub.)
- 17 January lecture
– Political econ. of vagabondage; criminal as social enemy
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3
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- 24 January lecture
– Criminal as social enemy; comparing prison-form (discipline) and wage-form
(capitalism)
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4
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- 31 January lecture
– Comparison of prison/wage form; power’s hold on time and conditions of possibility
for discipline and capital.
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5
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- 21 February lecture
– Popular illegalisms; worker depredation
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6
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- 7 March lecture
– Fear of the laboring class; pol. econ. of the working body
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7
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- 21 March – New
form of confinement-sequestration; normal and abnormal
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8
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Discipline
and Punish (1975)
- Selections (to
be determined) from Part III – Discipline: “Docile Bodies” (pp. 135-169),
“The Means of Correct Training” (pp. 170-194), and “Panopticism” (pp.
198-228).
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9
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- Part IV –
Prison: “Illegalities and Delinquency” (pp. 257-292).
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10
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The Birth
of Biopolitics (1978-79, posth. pub.)
- 14 March lecture
– Work as economic conduct, from homo oeconomicus to the entrepreneur
of the self, the notion of human capital
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11
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TBD/Flex week
(unlikely we will meet)
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