Foucault and the History of Our Present

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘What Are We At the Present Time?’ Foucault and the Question of the Present....Pages 13-25
What Is Capitalist Power? Reflections on ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’....Pages 26-42
Foucault in India....Pages 43-57
‘Critique Will Be the Art of Voluntary Inservitude’: Foucault, La Boétie and the Problem of Freedom....Pages 58-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Other Space of Police Power; or, Foucault and the No-Fly Zone....Pages 77-93
On the Road with Michel Foucault: Migration, Deportation and Viapolitics....Pages 94-110
Securing the Social: Foucault and Social Networks....Pages 111-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Human Pastorate and ‘La Vie Bête’....Pages 131-141
Beyond Slogans and Snapshots: The Story of the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons ....Pages 142-158
Troubling Mobilities: Foucault and the Hold over ‘Unruly’ Movements and Life-Time....Pages 159-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
 Environmentality and Colonial Biopolitics: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of Environmental Subjectivities....Pages 179-194
Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault on Spiritual Exercises: Transforming the Self, Transforming the Present....Pages 195-209
A Decolonizing Alethurgy: Fanon after Foucault....Pages 210-222
Ethics as Politics: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell and the Critique of Our Present....Pages 223-235
Resistance and Vulnerability: An Interview with Judith Butler....Pages 236-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-248