Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality

Authors
Maurizio Lazzarato is sociologist living and working in Paris. His recent
publications include La fabrique de l'homme endetté: Essai sur la condition
néolibérale (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2011), Expérimentations politiques
(Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2009), Intermittents et précaires (Paris:
Editions Amsterdam 2008, with Antonella Corsani), and Le gouvernement
des inégalités: Critique de l'insécurité néolibérale (Paris: Editions Amsterdam,
2008).
Thomas Lemke is Heisenberg Professor of Sociology with focus on Biotechnologies,
Nature and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the
Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main in Germany. His research interests
include social and political theory, biopolitics, social studies of genetic and
reproductive technologies. Recent publications include Der medizinische
Blick in die Zukunft: Gesellschaftliche Implikationen prädiktiver Gentests
(with Regine Kollek, 2008), Governmentality: Current Issues and Future
Challenges (ed. with Ulrich Bröckling and Susanne Krasmann, 2010), Biopolitics:
An Advanced Introduction (2011), and Foucault, Governmentality,
and Critique (2011).
Helena Mattsson is an Associate professor in Architecture and History and
Theory of Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture, and Vice Dean
of the School of Architecture and Built Environment, KTH (Royal Institute
of Technology). Her doctoral thesis was published 2004, Arkitektur och
konsumtion: Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik (Architecture and
consumption: Reyner Banham and the aesthetic of expendability). She has
written extensively on architecture, art and culture, and her publications
include Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare
State (d. with Sven-Olov Wallenstein) 2010) and 1% (2006). Mattsson is
currently working on the project The Architecture of Deregulations: Post-
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