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heeelllzzz yeah!
the methodological side reflections in the first two lectures are really great. i also like the way he frames the conceptualization of the market in emergent liberalism in terms of value and veridction...
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hmmm yeah i started reading it last night, too. sometimes i find it interesting, sometimes i get bored and irritated with the lack of citations.
have you read any of the old '80s era reviews of his collège lectures? there are a few written in english, although they are pre-translation, naturally.
i haven't been reading BoB too seriously yet. i also haven't read any of the reviews you mentioned--are they worth checking out?
i dunno, i just noticed that some old skool reviews came up on jstor when i was searching for something else. i thought you might be interested. obviously scholars have been picking through his transcripts for thirty years now, so it shouldn't be too too surprising what's in the 'new' releases, if you have read any current secondary writings. and, honestly, i find the secondary work more engaged than foucault's own, since he is notoriously bad on citations and gets picked on a lot for selectively using sources to suit his aims. i don't find him very 'hard' to read, just frustrating. at this point, i am kinda cold on 'governmentality'.. i don't see how it is that crucial an intervention in the history of political theory/philosophy. but maybe that is just an effect of secondary distortions.. so i will likely keep reading and see what i can get from it.
i've read some secondary stuff on gov'tality but i haven't read anything too helpful. i'm probably not reading the right people, but regardless, it seems easier just to cut to the source. are there any particular articles you've come across that would be worth checking out?