Monday, December 4, 2006

Winter Term 2007: Biopowered

This is the first post of what we hope to be a term-long project in reading selected essays by Michel Foucault and posting our thoughts and observations online. In this context, "we" are a group of graduate students in history at UC Santa Cruz who needed a 2-credit term project and wanted to read more Foucault in a semi-organized way.

We'll be reading excerpts from Foucault's Power/Knowledge, at least one essay on Nietzsche, and perhaps a smattering of non-directly-Foucault-related stuff (including an exchange between A. Dirk Moses and Hayden White in the journal History and Theory in 2005.)

We'll get this thing going in earnest during the first week of 2007. See you then.