Miguel de Beistegui

7-8.30pm | Wednesday 10 March 2010 
Room NAB 1.07, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE

Speaker
Miguel de Beistegui, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

The aim of those two talks, devoted to Foucault’s lecture at the Collège de France from 1979 (‘The Birth of Biopolitics’), is to re-think the nature of the relation between politics and economics, especially in the context of the current economic and social crisis. Foucault enables us to understand how, and with what consequences, the subject of politics underwent a decisive shift in the 18th century with the emergence if the market and a new type of rationality (political economy). In these talks Migeul de Beistegui will be asking if, and how, a phrase of re-politicisation can follow the total ‘economisation’ of contemporary life and if there are alternatives to the neoliberal worldview.