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3 Workers' Inquiries from Breakaway Trotskyism to Italian WorkerismFrom the Questionnaire to the Narrative: Workers' Inquiries of the Johnson-Forest Tendency and Correspondence; Socialisme ou Barbarie and the (Failed) Solicitation of Worker Narratives; From Conflict to Antagonism: The Workers' Inquiries of Quaderni Rossi; 4 Badiou, the Maoist Investigation, and the Party Form; UCFML Investigations in Context; Practical Challenges; Proletarian Political Leadership Over Poor Peasants; Postscript: Politics Without Party; 5 In the Shadow of Oedipus: Enquêtes in Foucault's Theory and Practice

"Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear. The book explores this relationship to explain the development of Foucault's thinking about power. Using newly translated and unpublished materials, it examines what led Foucault to take on the question of power in the early 1970s and subsequently refine his thinking, working through different models (war and government) and modalities (sovereign, disciplinary, biopolitical, pastoral and governmental). Looking at Foucault's political trajectory, from his involvement with the prisoner support movement and Solidarity to his controversial engagement with the Iranian revolution, the book shows the militant underpinning of his interest in the question of power and its various shifts and mutations. This thorough account, which includes the first translation of a report edited by Foucault on prison conditions, will provide students in contemporary political theory with a better understanding of Foucault's thinking about power and of the interplay between political activities and theoretical productions."--

As scholarly interest in the experience of French Maoism has been undergoing something of a renaissance, it is unsurprising that the Maoist practice of investigations has elicited varying degrees of attention in recent years. But this attention has tended to be subsumed within, if not overshadowed by, much broader historical and exegetical undertakings. This paper seeks to redress this limitation in the literature by focusing on the lengthiest and most detailed summary of Maoist investigations among peasants in the French countryside,The Book of Poor Peasants, published by Alain Badiou's Group for the Foundation of the Union of Communists of France Marxist-Leninist (ucfml) in 1976. This book vividly demonstrates the difficulties and limitations associated with the practice of investigations. It thus affords a more critical appreciation of this practice. The book also casts Badiou's shift toward a 'politics without party' in a new light.