Foucault’s institutional analyses displace rather than address European imperialism

Evidence

Sometimes it seems as if the very brilliance of Foucault’s analysis of the centuries of European imperialism produces a miniature version of that heterogeneous phenomenon: management of space—but by doctors, development of administrations—but in asylums, considerations of the periphery—but in terms of the insane, prisoners, and children. The clinic, the asylum, the prison, the university, seem screen-allegories that foreclose a reading of the broader narratives of imperialism. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1784

Categorization

• XREF: Could pair with a piece on how canonical theory’s analytic objects substitute for colonial ones. — connects to: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism missed its transnational and postnational dimensions — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 144

Broader Connections

• Foucault’s account of neoliberalism missed its transnational and postnational dimensions #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 144