R: [Generation_online] les objets de nos delires

[M]

I assume the review you are referring to is the one by malcolm bull. I have
been working up a response to it that is almost finalised and will forward
it to the list (or to people individually if people don't want the list used
for distribution of this kind of thing - let me know) in a couple of days.
If nothing else it will hopefully provoke some discussion.

I had planned to try and place it in the LRB, but I feel that I've probably
left it a little late.

Anyway, I'm waiting for some responses from some friends then I'll pass it
on...

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: generation_online-admin@kein.org
[mailto:generation_online-admin@kein.org]Per conto di Soenke Zehle
Inviato: giovedi 11 ottobre 2001 11.29
A: empire/autonomism
Oggetto: [Generation_online] les objets de nos delires

Dear all,

I, too, like the new approach.

Let's multiply our objects of desire, if that's at all possible, I quite
like the idea of thought-as-social-desire, btw. The monstrous
solidarity-machine that kicked in to gear here in Germany was a definite
reminder that I have no desire to have my affects articulated exclusively by
mass-mediatic interventions of the "new humanitarianism" kind.

So: If you remember the last review I posted, there was some stuff in there
that observed a strange similarity between Negri's positions and some of the
early neoliberal stuff.

At some point I'd like to return to that in part because that is (I think)
what also happened in/to/with Foucault - remember _The Foucault Effect_,
which (esp. Colin Gordon) tried to demonstrate that Foucault was really
quite excited about neoliberal ideas of self-actualization etc., and that
would probably come up at some point.

So, if the list editors propose "seminar-like" elements, that would be one
of the things I'd be happy to prepare in some detail, esp. for people who
have don't have the respective material.

I hope, btw, that Foucault's lectures on _naissance de la biopolitique_ will
be out before too long (I've seen other volumes but no publication
schedule).

I'd love to take a look at (that means I'd have to work on my French quite a
bit, but hey - if that's not a reason then I don't know what would...) that
in this context.

>From the emails I've read, there seems to be some interest in a return to
the all-too-brief "genealogy" of the biopolitical problematic in _Empire_
and go from there - no slavishly hermeneutic approach but a free-wheeling
exploration of biopolitical thought.

This is going to be really good.

Best,

Soenke


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