The (Neo)liberal Art of Governing

Even from the vantage point of posterity, there is something uncannily familiar about Foucault’s lectures at the College de France in the spring of 1979. Foucault’s account seeks to provide what he would later call “an ontology of the present.”1 Furthermore, he also attempted to disclose the “domain [champ]” within which several of the “currently possible experiences” of his time came about as something he and his contemporaries needed to engage in or relate to.2