[lbo-talk] Foucault and politics

[Dennis Claxton]

Ran across this on Foucault's prison activism, which preceded 
Discipline and Punish:

These two recent French publications document the work of the Group 
for Information on Prisons (GIP), which Foucault co-founded and, with 
his partner Daniel Defert, was most heavily involved in running. The 
work of the GIP has thus far mostly been discussed in hagiographical 
mode, most extensively in Foucault's biographies, and in a handful of 
articles and unpublished French dissertations. These new publications 
will hopefully encourage and facilitate much-needed critical scrutiny.

full at:

http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/viewFile/868/886