«…Et moi, un anarchiste de gauche»

Michel Foucault: psycho-politics & anarchy

Abstract

The present work proposes to consider the philosophical-political production of Michel Foucault as directly inscribed within the field of resistance and social struggles (psycho-sex politics) of an acratic nature. We will proceed in four times. We will begin by taking up Foucault’s critique of the desire for identification as a libidinal device of political capture (fatal Hegelian inheritance). Then we will study how Foucault (in his active connection with Deleuze, Guattari, and some uprising movements) conceived the revolutionary theory-practice as a collective construction from below of «machines critiques», capable of permanently questioning any position of representation, dirigisme, reformism, technocracy and avant-garde (machines with which to be able to revolt). Next, we will address the Foucaultian conception of becoming-revolutionary (conversion à la révolution) and becoming-without-a-face (perdre son identité) as production of subjectivation without-subject. Finally, we will address the concomitant problem of the collective creation of a new direct, autonomous, collective and monoritarian self-emancipatory governmentality (gouvernementalité socialiste autonome). Thus, collectively producing the permanent revolution will imply, simultaneously, an art of living collectively (art de vivre) + an art of oneself on oneself (art de soi-même).