What difference, I wonder, has the publication in English of Foucault’s lecture course on The Birth of Biopolitics, which aren’t, after all, actually about biopolitics, made to ‘hegemonic’ theoretical accounts of the rise and spread and future of neoliberalism? The newly available ‘voice’ of Foucault in these and other lecture courses might well support the established interpretative conventions under which neoliberalism appears as an object of critical approbation.
Clive Barnett offers some really interesting and useful observations concerning the relative importance and/or impact of the publication, in English, of Foucault's lecture course on The Birth of Biopolitics to accounts of neoliberalism.
