Laura Cremonesi specialises in 20th Century French Philosophy and has published articles and
book chapters on Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. She has published a book on Foucault's
interpretation of the ancient world, Michel Foucault e il mondo antico. Spunti per una critica
dell'attualità (ETS, 2008), and translated from French into Italian the book by Pierre Hadot, Études
de philosophie ancienne (Les Belles Lettres, 2010): Studi di filosofia antica (ETS, 2015).
Orazio Irrera is Associate Researcher at the Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne,
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal
materiali foucaultiani and the co-director of the permanent workshop "Race and Colonialism:
On the Political Epistemologies of Decolonisation" at the Collège international de Philosophie. He
is the co-editor of Foucault e le genalogie del dir-vero (Cronopio, 2014) and La pensée politique de
Foucault (Kimé, 2016).
Daniele Lorenzini is Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Paris-Est
Créteil. He is the author most recently of Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les
techniques de l'ordinaire (Vrin, 2015) and the co-editor of Michel Foucault's lectures About the
Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), Qu'est-ce que
la critique? Suivi de La culture de soi (Vrin, 2015), and Discours et vérité (Vrin, 2016). He is also a
member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani.
Martina Tazzioli is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille and Research
Assistant at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Spaces of Governmentality:
Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), co-author of Tunisia
as a Revolutionized Space of Migration (Palgrave Pivot, 2016), and co-editor of Foucault and the
History of Our Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She is also a member of the editorial board of
the journal materiali foucaultiani.

Explores a Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.

Introduction. Foucault and the Making of Subjects: Rethinking Autonomy between Subjection and
Subjectivation, Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli / 1. Foucault, the Iranian Uprising, and the Constitution of a Collective Subjectivity, Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli / 2. There Can't Be Societies without Uprisings, Michel Foucault, Farès Sassine / Part 1: Productions of Subjectivity / 3. From Subjection to Subjectivation: Michel Foucault and the History of Sexuality, Arnold I. Davidson / 4. Foucault, Regimes of Truth, and the Making of the Subject, Daniele Lorenzini / 5. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Case of Sexual Avowal, Judith Butler / Part II: Autonomy, Critique, and the Norms / 6. Philosophy, Critique, and the Present: The Question of Autonomy in Michel Foucault's Thought, Laura Cremonesi / 7. Foucault and the Refusal of Ideology , Orazio Irrera / 8. Becoming a Subject in Relation to Norms, Guillaume le Blanc / Part III: The Power over/of Governed Subjects / 9. The Government of Desire, Miguel de Beistegui / 10. Between Politics and Ethics: The Question of Subjectivation, Judith Revel / 11. Foucault and the Irreducible to the Population: The Mob, the Plebs, and Troubling Subjectivities in Excess, Martina Tazzioli