BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260621T091014Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T120000 SUMMARY:The Form that Freedom Takes: Foucault\, Ethics\, and Governmentality UID:20260623T024626Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:102 Paterno Library\, University Park\, United States\, 16802 DESCRIPTION:

When Michel Foucault asserted that &ldquo\;ethics is the considered form that freedom takes when it is informed by reflection\,&rdquo\; he was not so much stating a fact as offering a definition. For Foucault\, ethics does not necessarily have anything to do with concepts such as &ldquo\;right&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;good&rdquo\; but is\, simply\, a course of self-aware\, self-assessed\, contingent conduct. This definition de-individualizes ethics in that nothing in it prohibits the term &ldquo\;ethics&rdquo\; from being applied to the course of conduct of a community\, a people\, or a nation. It also de-personalizes and\, indeed\, de-humanizes ethics\, allowing one to speak of the ethics apparent in the course of conduct of non-human entities of many sorts. This presentation will consider Foucault&rsquo\;s definition of ethics alongside his descriptions of liberalism in \;The Birth of Biopolitics \;as both a consumer and a producer of freedom in order to raise the question of ethics for neoliberalized subjects in the midst of global inequality and an increasingly unstable biosphere.

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