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Special issue of Foucault Studies Journal on the Work of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-05-12 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-03-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
174676 |
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Call for Papers--Special issue of Foucault Studies on the relations between the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben
Editor, Jeffrey Bussolini
The work and thought of Giorgio Agamben has gained immense popularity in the last decade (not unlike the intense interest in Foucault's work in and since the 1980s). His ongoing and intensifying use of concepts from Foucault has brought increasing interest to the relations between these two thinkers. This issue of Foucault Studies focuses on the points of contact, borrowing, interpretation, and difference between them. While biopolitics is an important point of connection, their interrelations also encompass method, intellectual history, theory of secularization, governmentality, sovereignty, and veridiction, among other salient aspects. This issue aims to collect and present a set of essays concerning many different facets of the influence and resonance between these two thinkers. As this influence seems particularly evident after Agamben's 1995 Homo Sacer, several papers will likely address the connections in that and the following works such as State of exception and Remnants of Auschwitz. Though not necessary for all submissions, we hope for several that concern the intensive focus on Foucault in Agamben's recent books (and pamphlet) Il Regno e la Gloria: per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e dello governo, Che cos'e un dispositivo?, Signatura rerum: sul metodo , and Il sacramento del linguaggio: Archeologia del giuramento. In addition, papers concerning the relations between Agamben's early works and those of Foucault, and papers concerning any aspect of connection between their thoughts, are welcome.
Please send complete papers to the issue editor Jeffrey Bussolini by MAY 12th 2010 at bussolini@gmail.com in .odt or .doc format. Please put 'Agamben Issue' in the subject line.
Relevant topics to consider may include but are not limited to:
Agamben's use, criticism, and extension of governmentality from Foucault (in Il Regno e la Gloria); veridiction in Foucault and Agamben (Sacramento del linguaggio)
Economy (oikonomia) in Foucault and Agamben
The role of religion/secularization in Foucault and Agamben
Influences of Carl Schmitt on Agamben and Foucault (exception, ongoing influence of war)
Methods of investigation and inquiry in Foucault and Agamben (for instance in Signatura rerum)
The concept of the dispositive (apparatus) in Agamben and Foucault
Agamben's explicit interpretation of Foucault's texts, and Homo sacer (5 parts) as a comprehensive work
Translation issues concerning the work of Foucault and Agamben
War and civil war in Agamben and Foucault (including technologies of war and nuclear arms)
Biopolitics as presented and used in Foucault and Agamben
The history and figure of the camp in Agamben and Foucault
Concentration camps, the Nazi state, and the atomic bomb in Agamben and Foucault
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Jeffrey Bussolini, Associate Professor
City University of New York, College of Staten Island
SASW Department, Bldg 4S-223
2800 Victory Blvd
Staten Island, NY 10314
Email: bussolini@gmail.com
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