Foucault 13/13: Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)

[@somebody6055]

begins at 7:00

[@CezarPrado]

Marvelous presentations! Thanks a lot for it! I would like to suggest the links of the texts read and cited (e.g. the one about if Foucault is or not a neoliberal, by Laval).

[@gameroom101official]

If you type "François Ewald, Foucault" into Google, it is an article a few down, published 24 Jan 2016. (I tried adding the link, but KZbin doesn't let you)

[@Cyberphunkisms]

30:00 are "institutionalists" related to "economic historians" and "marginalists" related to more "axiomatic" economics?

[@schaduw56]

Foucault’s lectures about neoliberalism might be interesting from an abstract theoretical point of view, but he fails to make a connection with the implementation of the ideas of Milton Friedman. Of course, as Kendall Thomas point out he could not foresee the economic policies of Thatcher and Reagan, but if he had looked back a few years, he could have seen how Chili was used as a test case for neoliberalism. After the bloody coup of Pinochet thousands of people were killed and thousands of others disappeared in prisons and torture chambers. The Chicago Boys, Chilean pupils of Milton Friedman seized the moment and implemented a program of privatization of the energy sector, the financial sector and public services. Only the big (American) companies and the Chilean upper class profited, but in the eyes of Friedman and Hayek the experiment was a great success. More information: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGSlZqSqa8ymrrs