Publications & Events

Research & Publications

Selected research that either originated in CGC or to which CGC contributed:

• Critical Genealogies Collaboratory, (co-authored paper by C. Koopman, Patrick Jones, Valérie Simon, Paul Showler, and Mary McLevey), "When Data Drive Health: An Archaeology of Medical Records Technology" in BioSocieties, forthcoming (& currently in online publication)
• Colin Koopman, How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
• Critical Genealogies Collaboratory, (co-authored paper by C.  Koopman, Sarah Hamid, Patrick Jones, Claire Pickard, Bonnie Sheehey, and Laura Smithers), "Standard Forms of Power: Biopower and Sovereign Power in the Technology of the U.S. Birth Certificate, 1903-1935" in Constellations, v25, July 2018: 641-656
• Colin Koopman, "Conduct and Power: Foucault’s Methodological Expansions in 1971" in Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts (eds.), Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 59-74
• Nicolae Morar and Marjorie Gracieuse, "Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A Rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem" in Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, and Daniel Smith, Between Deleuze and Foucault (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
• Colin Koopman, "Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking" in Constellations, v22n4, Dec. 2015
• Colin Koopman and Tomas Matza, "Putting Foucault to Work: Analytic and Concept in Foucaultian Inquiry" in Critical Inquiry, v39n4, Summer 2013
• Thomas Nail, "The Crossroads of Power: Michel Foucault and the US/Mexico Border Wall" in Foucault Studies, no. 15, Feb. 2013
• Nicolae Morar and Colin Koopman "The Birth of the Concept of Biopolitics – A Critical Notice of Lemke's Biopolitics" in Theory and Event v15n4, 2012 
• Katherine Logan, "Foucault, the Modern Mother and Maternal Power: Notes Towards a Genealogy of the Mother" in R. Duschinsky et al. (eds.), Foucault, the Family and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• "Foucault Across the Disciplines" special issue of History of the Human Sciences, edited by Colin  Koopman, v24n4, Oct. 2011; with papers by Ian Hacking, Arnold Davidson, Amy Allen, James Ferguson, Hans Sluga, Mark Bevir, Mark Franko, and Catherine Soussloff

Events & Conferences

We are hosting a Spring 2025 Critical Genealogies Workshop regional symposium at the University of Oregon, including faculty and graduate students at UO, Oregon State University, and Lewis & Clark College.

We hosted the Spring 2019 Critical Genealogies Workshop project at the University of Oregon, and continue to be closely involved with CGW events..

In our former incarnation as the Foucault Across the Disciplines Research Cluster at the University of California, Santa Cruz we organized:

• 'Foucault Across the Disciplines' at ucsc (march 2008) 
• 'Ars Synthetica: Anthropology of the Contemporary' at ucsc (january 2009)