Rudy Giuliani: identify every “non-citizen”

Rudy Giuliani has proposed that every “non-citizen” in America should be identified and placed in a federal database:

The organizing purpose should be that our immigration laws should allow us to identify everyone who is in this country that comes here from a foreign country.

They should have a tamper-proof I.D. card. It should be in a database that allows you to figure out who they are, why they’re here, make sure they’re not illegal immigrants coming here for a bad purpose, and then to be able to throw out the ones who are not in that database.

Talk about a society of security! I can’t wait to receive my nice new ID card.

New edition of politics of truth

MIT Press is issuing a new edition of Politics of Truth from Semiotext[e]. It’s called a second revised edition, so I assume it has new stuff in it.

From the Table of Contents it appears to have a new second section (sorry, don’t have my original edition to hand to compare).

Out this month.

James Faubion, Foucault editor, in video talk on the postmodern

The Center for Ethnography at UC Irvine has recorded a conversation (scroll down to March 20-21) and talk by Dominic Boyer and James Faubion, who you may recall was an editor of Volume 3 of the Essential Works of Foucault.

Faubion is at Rice University and recently published an interesting-looking paper on the ecology of “heterotopia” (.doc) (“Foucault’s approach to the heterotopic makes a bow to the phenomenologists of space, but only to leave them behind…”).

The subject of the Irvine talk is on the “ethnography of intellectuals and the predicaments of theory today.”

(h/t Savage Minds)

Ian Hacking on making up people

Ian Hacking’s recent long article in the London Review of Books is of considerable interest to Foucault scholars.

In fact, Hacking’s work itself has long shown an affinity for certain aspects of Foucault, if it would be a bit much to say that it was influenced by it.

As he described in a recent lecture (.doc) at the Heyman Center on the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Order of Things, he has a long interest in Foucault’s work.