"Politics is no more or less than that which is born with resistance to governmentality, the first uprising, the first confrontation."
Michel Foucault, notes, Security, Territory, Population.
#governmentality
#Michel Foucault
"What we need to articulate, in order to live up to Foucault’s aspirations, is theory as a form of biopolitical militancy that has the power to struggle against the life we are given and to make a new life, against this world and for another. Beyond critique’s ability to limit how much and in what way we are governed, this militancy opens up a new form of governance."
Michael Hardt, The Militancy of Theory
#Michael Hardt
#Foucault
#Biopolitics
Security, Territory, Population
“To produce for world markets, and to be a successful knowledge-based economy, we need intellectual capital. In the information age, human talent, not physical resources or financial capital, is the key factor for economic competitiveness and success.” - PM Goh Chok Tong, NDP Speech, August 1997
“….the State does not promote overseas employment as a means to sustain economic growth and achieve national development….Nonetheless, the deployment of Filipino overseas workers, whether land-based or sea-based by local service contractors and manning agencies employing them shall be encouraged.” - Philippine RA 8042
“…the transition from an art of government to political science, the transition in the eighteenth century from a regime dominated by structures of sovereignty to a regime dominated by techniques of government revolves around population, and consequently around the birth of political economy.” -MF, STP
"As of 1998, 70 percent of the women listed in ‘mail-order brides’ catalogues were from the Philippines, followed by Russia, Ukraine and Latin American countries such as Mexico and Colombia. The Philippines remains the largest ‘brides supplier’, and is estimated to ‘export’ up to 20,000 women to foreign husbands annually."
Anne-Marie D’Aoust, The security governance of the international mail-order-brides industry
#mail order brides
#affect
"Why should a thinker who denies and subverts disciplinary boundaries be disciplined by a discipline? Foucault refused to discipline his thought, turning on his own insights within a few pages or from one lecture series to the next. Nothing is sacred in Foucault. This movement within his work sets up creative harmonics of addition and subtraction. It makes little sense to ask what Foucault can do for IR, when his critical achievement is to help make IR a less disciplined discipline."
Andrew W. Neal, Rethinking Foucault in International Relations: Promiscuity and Unfaithfulness
#foucault
#IR
