ABOUT

ARCHIVE

FUNAMBULIST BOOKS

ARCHIPELAGO

The
Funambulist
Bodies,Design&Politics

THEFUNAMBULIST

#THEFUNAMBULIST
PAPERS46///
CHAMAYOUS
MANHUNTS:FROM
TERRITORYTOSPACE?
BYSTUARTELDEN
PostedonJanuary18,2014ByLopoldLambert

6Comments

TheFunambulistisaresearch
platform written and edited by
LopoldLambert.

Its name is inspired by a

wondering/wandering on the
line as architects' medium. A
line on the white page splits in
reality two milieus from one
anotherandorganizespolitically
the bodies in space. The act of
walkingontheline(funambulist
means tightrope walker) is an
act of subversion of the
traditionalroleoftheline/wall.

The

Funambulist

is

also

accessible via Facebook and

Twitter

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution
NoDerivs3.0UnportedLicense.

RoyalAirForceNimrodXV230namedafterthebiblical

Search

characterofNimrod

Search

The fortysixth Funambulist Papers comes from one of the

most important current thinkers in political geography: Stuart
Eldenwhoistheauthoroffivebooks,aswellastheeditorof

ARCHIPELAGO

Go

sevenothers(seethephoto)includingtheveryusefulSpace,
Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (Ashgate,
2007.). In the following text he interprets and critique the
notion of territory he recently wrote a book entitled The
BirthofTerritory(UniversityofChicagoPress,2013.)inthe
philosophicalhistoricalworkofGrgoireChamayou,andmore
specificallyinthebookManhunts(PrincetonUniversityPress,
2012.). The reader is invited to also consult the two articles
dedicatedtoChamayouonTheFunambulist:TheBodyasa
Terrain of Experiments: Medicine and Vile Bodies and The

LATEST
ARCHIPELAGO
PODCAST

BodyofthePreyistheBattlefield.Thethreebookswrittenby
ARCHIPELAGO

Chamayou, Vile Bodies, Manhunts and Drone Theory are

OLIVIASNAIJE///Keep

indeedcenteredonthequestionofbodyandthegenealogy
touseMichelFoucaultsterminologyofthemechanisms

Follow

ofpowerthatsurroundsit.Stuartstexthelpsustoplacethis

Follow
The
body within a legal and physical territory
where
these
Funambulist

mechanismsoperate.

Get every new post delivered to

The Funambulist Papers
46 ///
your Inbox.
Chamayous
Manhunts:
From
Join 2,724 other followers
TerritorytoSpace?

byStuartElden

Enter your email address

ThisbriefarticlediscussesGrgoireChamayousManhunts,a
powerfulaccountofhumaninhumanity,thetrackingdownand
Sign me up
killingofotherhumans.Ashesaysinhissecondparagraph:

36:17

Cookie policy

Build a website with WordPress.com

Followthe
FunambulistviaEmail

To write the history of manhunts is

to write one fragment of a long
history of violence on the part of the
dominant. It is also to write a history
of

the

technologies

of

predation

Enteryouremailaddresstofollow
thisblogandreceivenotificationsof
newpostsbyemail.
Join2,724otherfollowers

Enter your email address

indispensable for the establishment

Follow

and reproduction of relationships of

domination.[1]

TheFunambuliston
Facebook
The Funambulist

Chamayouisinsistentthathisfocusisnotonametaphor,but
on concrete historical phenomena in which human beings

Like
5,483 people like The Funambulist.

weretrackeddown,captured,orkilledinaccordwiththeforms
ofthehunt.[2]

The main problem has to do with the

fact that the hunter and the hunted do
not belong to different species. Since

WEAPONIZED
ARCHITECTURE

the distinction between the predator

and his prey is not inscribed in
nature, the hunting relationship is
always susceptible to a reversal of
positions.

Prey

sometimes

band

together to become hunters in their

turn. The history of a power is also
the

history

of

the

struggles

to

overthrow it.[3]
TheFunambulist
Papers:Volume1
His examples are wideranging, from Ancient Greece to the
Bible,fromexiletoslaverytocolonialism,andtozombies.The
book is strikingly illustrated and has plenty of powerful
examples. It proceeds in a nonsystematic manner, and is
suggestive rather than comprehensive in its cases and
references.Nonethelessitisastrikingandoriginalanalysis.
ChamayouisinspiredbysomeofFoucaultsclaims,especially

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume

thecontrastFoucaultdrawsbetweenmechanismsofexileand

01:SPINOZA

exclusion and incarceration and inclusion. As Chamayou

notes, Foucault describes this in History of Madness as the
great confinement, le grand renfermement,[4] but it also
figures in his contrasting analyses of medicine. In lectures
delivered in 1974 in Rio Foucault contrasts the exile of the
leperandthepartitioningandquarantineoftheplaguetown;a
comparison he would reuse in his Collge de France lecture
course The Abnormals and in the Panopticism chapter of
Discipline and Punish.[5] However Chamayou also distances

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
02:FOUCAULT

himself from elements of Foucaults work. One striking

example is when he suggests that Foucaults notion of
pastoral power, the power of the shepherd over his flock,[6]
shouldbeseenasworkinginoppositiontoanotherfigure,the
hunter of men. If Abraham is the iconic figure of pastoral
power, Nimrod is the parallel for what he calls cynegetic
power.[7] Nimrod was Noahs greatgrandson and acclaimed
asamightyhunter.Hewasalso,onsometraditions,Kingof

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
03:DELEUZE

BabylonandthustherulerofBabel.
In Chamayous summary, Foucaults pastoral power is
exercised over a multiplicity in movement (a flock); it is
fundamentally beneficent (caring for the flock), and it
individualizesitssubjects(knowingeachmemberoftheflock
individually). It is thus a mobile, beneficent, and
individualising power.[8] Chamayou suggests that cynegetic
powerisopposedtermfortermbythistriplecharacterization.

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
04:LEGALTHEORY

[9]Insteadofleadingtheflock,thehunterfollowstoseize;itis

a territorial power, but one that fluctuates between the fixed

spaceofthecityandtheexterior,apowerthatisnotlimitedin
itspredatoryextentbyanyexternalboundary.Itisexercised,
from a territory of accumulation, on the resources of an
indefinite exteriority.[10] Chamayou therefore distinguishes
between territory, which he understands as fixed, bordered
and to an extent immobile, from a wider space of capture.

TheFunambulist

This leads him to the first contrast: Thus, whereas pastoral

power guides and accompanies a multiplicity in movement,
cynegetic power extends itself, on the basis of a territory of

Pamphlets:Volume
05:OCCUPYWALL
STREET

accumulation,overaspaceofcapture.[11]
Chamayou sees modern developments to have caused a
rupture with respect to the old principle of territorial
sovereignty that maintains that everything is on the territory
belongsto the territory, given that residing on the territory no
longer suffices to be completely subject, de facto, to the law
that applies to it.[12] But this old principle of territorial
sovereigntyisnot,actually,allthatold.Whileelementsofits

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
06:PALESTINE

canbetracedbackthroughthehistoryofpoliticalthought,the
bringing together of these different elements as a notion of
territorialsovereigntyisreallyonlyasoldastheseventeenth
century. The idea that the king was an emperor in his
kingdom,i.e.thathehasnosuperiorintemporalpower,islate
medieval;butthattheboundariesofthatkingdomwereknown
andfixedismuchlater.Indeed,attemptstofixboundariesof
states was one of the major international projects of the first

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
07:CRUELDESIGNS

half of the twentieth century; really only being enshrined in

legalorderintheCharteroftheUnitedNationsintheprinciple
ofterritorialintegrity.InanoteChamayousuggeststhat

The medieval principle of territorial

sovereignty was expressed in the
formula quidquid est in territorio est
de territorio. This maxim meant that
the sovereign reigned over the whole
territory and over everything in it.
The principle was then interpreted
freely, making it the principle of
protecting

refugees:

Qui

est

in

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
08:ARAKAWA+GINS

territorio

est

de

territorio.

The

foreigner being subject to the laws of

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
09:SCIENCEFICTION

the country where he resides, he must

also

enjoy

the

protection

and

advantages of these same laws. Ivan

Golovin, Esprit de lconomie politique
(Paris: Didot, 1843), p. 382. See also
Hannah

Arendt,

Totalitarianism, p.

The

Origins

of

280.[13]

TheFunambulist
Pamphlets:Volume
10:LITERATURE

Thereferenceisfrustrating,becauseGolovinsbookendson
p. 368 in the copy of the 1843 edition Ive seen; but the
reference to Arendt certainly reinforces Chamayous point.
Arendtisdiscussingtherightofasylumbeingabolished.

Blogroll

Its long and sacred history dates back

Aphelis

to the very beginnings of regulated

ARCHIPELAGO

political life. Since ancient times it

ArenaofSpeculation

has protected both the refugee and the

AwakingLucid

land of refuge from situations in

BLDGBLOG

which people were forced to become

Bourbakisme

outlaws

Cairobserver

through

circumstances

beyond their control. It was the only

ConcreteRulesandAbstract

modern remnant of the medieval

Machines

principle

CriticalLegalThinking

that

quid

quid

est

in

territorio est de territorio, for in all

DecolonizingArchitecture

other cases the modern state tended to

Deconcrete

protect its citizens beyond its own

DemocracyNow

borders and to make sure, by means of

DPRBarcelona

reciprocal

treaties,

that

they

GeographicalImaginations

remained subject to the laws of their

LaPeriferiaDomestica

own country.[14]

NDLR
NewTerritories
ProgressiveGeographies

Theprincipledoesseemtosuggestthatwhoeveriswithinthe
territory is subject to the territory, though the question of

Socks

whether those rights extend outside the territoryand,

South/South

necessarily today, into other territoriesis of course open to

SpaceandPolitics

question. However, Arendt is wrong to date this to the

medieval period; and Chamayou is wrong to follow her. That
theprincipleisexpressedinLatindoesnotmakeitmedieval,
muchlessRoman.Indeed,theclassicalRomanthinkersvery

Subtopia
ThePublicArchive
TheState

rarely used the word territorium, which tended to apply to

Threadbared

agriculturallandssurroundingacity;andthosethatdidland

Tomorrow'sThoughtsToday

surveyors and lawyers saw the territorium as land of quite

TransitCity

smallextent,partoftheoverallimperium,ratherthandefining
itsspatialextent.Therewascertainlynottheexclusiverelation

UrbainTropUrbain

betweenterritoryandsovereigntythatwehavetoday.Onlyin

UrbanLabGlobalCities

the reappropriation of Roman law in the later part of the

Warscapes

fourteenthcenturydidterritoriumandjurisdictionbecometied

Yeoldefinch

together; and this had little impact on political theory until

seventeenthcenturydebatesintheHolyRomanEmpireabout

Archives(bydateof
publication)

the distinction between majesty and sovereignty. The best

January2015(6)

discussion of the (modern) principle I have found is in

December2014(12)

Jennings and Wattss volume on peace in Oppenheims

InternationalLaw.There,theystatethat

November2014(9)
October2014(6)
September2014(6)

According to the maxim quidquid est

August2014(9)

in territorio est etiam de territorio, all

July2014(13)

individuals and all property within

June2014(7)

the territory of a state are under its

May2014(11)

dominion and sway, and foreign

April2014(6)

individuals and property fall at once

March2014(10)

under the territorial authority of a

February2014(10)

state when they cross its frontiers.[15]

January2014(12)
December2013(11)

Thiscomesinadiscussionoftheterritorialauthorityofastate

November2013(12)

over everything within its territory;[16] suggesting that

October2013(9)

sovereigntyneedstobeunderstoodascomprisingthepower

September2013(10)

ofastatetoexercisesupremeauthorityoverallpersonsand

August2013(10)

things within its territory, [thus] sovereignty involves territorial

authority(dominium,territorialsovereignty).[17] Yet while this

July2013(13)
June2013(15)

iscertainlythecaseinthelatemodernperiod,earliertimesdid
not hold to these rigid, bounded definitions. I have discussed

May2013(13)

thesehistoricallineagesatlengthinTheBirthofTerritory.[18]

April2013(12)

The implications for Chamayous argument are not profound,

March2013(16)

in that they do not invalidate his claim that something

February2013(7)

significant is changing. But they do suggest that the situation

January2013(10)

being unravelled was never as secure or longstanding as

mightbeimplied.

December2012(8)
November2012(10)

The second and third contrast is easier to grasp: pastoral

power is fundamentally beneficent, cynegetic power is

October2012(9)

essentially predatory;[19] and while pastoral power is

September2012(9)

individualising, cynegetic power, although it proceeds by

August2012(8)

division, does so with a view to accumulation Cynegetic

July2012(10)

power accumulates; it does not individualise.[20]The third,

June2012(16)

though, becomes more complicated when we bring it into

May2012(14)

relationwiththefirst.
April2012(14)
March2012(18)

What emerges with the story of

February2012(20)

Nimrod is a forgotten continent of

January2012(13)

Western political thought. If Foucault

December2011(18)

could say that beginning with the rise

November2011(19)

of

October2011(17)

Hebrew,

and

then

Christian,

pastoralism, politics has been largely

September2011(19)

considered a matter of the sheepfold,

August2011(17)

we can add that it was also, though in

accord with a parallel and opposed
genealogy, a matter of

hunting.[21]

July2011(22)
June2011(24)
May2011(17)
April2011(23)

Chamayous book provides a sketchmap of this forgotten

March2011(27)

continent,achartthatotherscanusetoexploremorefully.In

February2011(25)

that way it works like Giorgio Agambens writings,[22] or,

January2011(27)

indeed, those of Foucault himself in the governmentality

December2010(688)

lectures from which Chamayou takes the notion of pastoral

power.[23]

April2010(1)
February2010(1)

In a 2011 commentary for Radical Philosophy, Chamayou

connected the arguments he had made in that book with

August2009(1)

contemporary politics in a much more explicit way.[24] He

TheFunambulist
Papers

suggests that the doctrine of the manhunt is a break with

01/DanielleWillems///Cinematic

previous ways of conventional warfare, which rests on the

concept of fronts, linear battles, and facetoface opposition.
[25]

We might challenge that description of conventional

warfare, which is long outdated and has not accurately

Catalysts:Contempt+Casa
Malaparte
02/NikolaosPatsopoulos///Mydear
FrancisWhatkindofaphoenixwill
arisefromtheseashes?

described US military policy for several decades, but

03/MartinByrne///Transcendent

Chamayouspointisworthpursuing.Chamayoucontraststhe

SpacesofPhillipK.Dick

new developments with Clausewitzs classic understandings

04/FredrikHellberg///Thoughtson

Delusionor;TheDangerousFree

(heisaFrenchtranslatorofClausewitz).[26] The point is that

MetaVirtualSolipsism

inconventionalwarbothsideswanttoachievethesamething

05/ViktorTimofeev///Learningfrom

victory. In cynegetic war one side wants to locate, capture

Doom

and kill; the other to evade, to hide, to escape. The hunter

06/EthelBaraonaPohl&Csar

cannot respect sovereign boundaries, as these are among

Immigration,UtopiasandtheSpace

the greatest allies of a fugitive.[27] Accordingly, the hunters

Reyes///PostpoliticalAttitudeson
BetweenUs
07/BiaynaBogosian///unFOLDing

power has no regard for borders. It allows itself the right of

AzadiTower:ReadingPersianFolds
ThroughDeleuze

universal trespassing, in defiance of territorial integrity of

sovereign states.[28] In a nod to Daniel HellerRoazens
genealogy of piracy, Chamayou suggests that to do this fully
would require a resuscitation of the archaic category of
common enemies of humanity.[29]Accordingly, much of the
war on terror is more like a vast campaign of extrajudicial

08/LucyFinchettMaddock///
Entropy,LawandFunambulism
09/MaryamMonalisaGharavi///
BecomingFugitive:CarceralSpace
andRanciereanPolitics
10/EduardoMcIntosh///Breadand
Circus:AgoraevsArenas

executions: a strategy of targeted assassinations, of lethal

manhunts, which make up the rogue and unilateral
counterpart to the manhunts carried out under the aegis of

11/CarlaLeito///PetArchitecture:
HumansBestFriend
12/OliviuLugojanGhenciu///Motion

internationalcriminaljustice.[30]

Architecture:Breakfastina

Again, we might want to challenge the idea of conventional

13/RajaShehadeh///AVisittothe

ScramjetsCombustionChamber

war being about both sides achieving the same thing. In the

OldCityofHebron

modern era, for example, some wars are fought to gain

14/MorganNg///TheTextualSonic

territory,withtheothersideseekingtopreserveit.Victorymay
betheaimforboth,butitmightmeandifferentthingsgaining

LandscapesofJacquesPerretsDes
FortificationsetArtifices
15/ClaireJamieson///ThePossible

versus not losing, accumulating versus preserving. But the

WorldsofArchitecture

oppositionbetweenlocating,capturingandkillingandevading,

16/CarlDouglas///OfftheGrid.Out

hiding, escaping may still be helpful. It is clear what the

andOver

analysisisleadingtowards.ForChamayou,thedroneisthe

17/HirokoNakatani///Dissolving

emblem of contemporary cynegetic war. It is the mechanical,

MindsandBodies

flyingandroboticheirofthedogofwar.Itcreatestoperfection

18/EstherCheung///Twin

theidealofasymmetry:tobeabletokillwithoutbeingableto

ArchitecturalDaydreams

be killed; to be able to see without being seen. To become

(Technology/ArtInduced)

19/AlexisBaghat///TwoQuestions

absolutely invulnerable while the other is placed in a state of

forSeherShah

absolute vulnerability. Predator, Global Hawk, Reaper

20/DanielFernndezPascual/The

birds of prey and angels of death, drones bear their names

well.Onlydeathcankillwithouteverdyingitself.Facingsuch
an enemy, there is no way out.[31] These arguments are
considerably developed in his 2013 study Thorie du drone.
[32]

In that book, Chamayou provides a genealogy of the

predator[33]aspartofhisoverallanalysis.IngeneraltermsI
ammostinterestedinthebackgroundtohisstudy:

ClearBlurryLine
21/LinnaHussein///OldMedias
Ressurection
22/MichaelBadu///TheMosque:
Religion,Politics&Architectureinthe
21stCentury
23/MariabrunaFabrizi&Fosco
Lucarelli///NothingtoHide
24/EveBailey///The

GroundbreakingClarityofRyanand

I will begin with this question: where

does the drone come from? What is its
tactical and technological genealogy?
What are, following from this, its
fundamental characteristics?[34]

TrevorOakes
25/RolandSnooks///Fibrous
AssemblagesandBehavioral
Composites
26/RyanPierson///Mlisin
Stereopsis
27/MatthewClements///Apian
Semantics
28/CarolineFiliceSmith///Brieflyon

Butpolitically,thisanalysisisespeciallyinterestingintermsof

Walking

linking the argument made about political space and territory

29/AndreasPhilippopoulos

inManhunts.

Atmosphere

ChamayousframeworkmakessenseofsomeoftheissuesI
have been trying to think about in terms of territory, or more

Mihalopoulos///TheFunambulist

30/LiduamPong///OpenStacks
31/GregBarton///Femicide
Machine/Backyard

specifically, the fracturing on the legal notion of territorial

integrity.TerritorialintegrityismentionedbyChamayouwhen
hesuggeststhehunterhasnoregardforborders,andclaims
the right of universal trespassing, in defiance of territorial

32/CamilleLacade///WouldHave
BeenanInventory
33/NoraAkawi///MappingIntervals:
TowardsanEmancipated

integrity of sovereign states.[35] What is interesting about

Cartography

Chamayous use of the term here is that he detaches it from

34/ZaydSifri///Movementand
Solidarity

changingthebordersofstates,changingtheterritory,butlinks
it to the temporary violation of those borders or territorial
sovereignty. Territorial integrity crucially comprises at least
these two, distinct, elements: that a state is sovereign within
its territory, within clearly demarcated borders territorial
sovereignty; and that those borders, that territory, is fixed
territorial preservation. These two elements have distinct

35/RusselHughes///DIYBiopolitics:
TheDeregulatedSelf
36/SadiaShirazi///City,Space,
Power:LahoresArchitectureof
In/Security
37/PedroHernndez///Bodiesat
Scene:ArchitectureasFriction

historical lineages, which come together in the twentieth

38/AnnickLabeca///NaturaNon

century. When territorial integrity is invoked today it is often

Adaptation

used simply to refer to territorial preservation. Tony Blair, for

39/SbastienBourbonnais///

FacitSaltum:Ontheconceptof

example, frequently made an explicit point of invoking the

MembraneAttractors:Tension

importance of preserving the territorial integrity of states he

digitalarchitecture

wasabouttobomborinvade.Hecouldonlyhavemeantthis

40/AndriGerber///MetaHistory,or

in the sense of preserving the existing territorial settlement;

betweenformandinformationin

HowtoTeachHistoryofArchitecture
intheEraofNewMedia

hardlyinthesenseofrespectingterritorialsovereignty.

41/NickAxel///WhatISthe
problem?

This is part of a wider pattern, in that today, there is a

concertedattemptbydominantstatesandtheUnitedNations

42/PhilippeTheophanidis///Caught
intheCloud:TheBiopoliticsofTear
GasWarfare

topreserveexistingterritorialsettlementsasmuchaspossible
thebreakupofempiresalonglinesofexistingborders,such

43/DanMellamphy///AV
(Anthropocosmogonic

as the application of the principle of uti possidetis in the

Vastupurushamanism)

African continent; the fracturing of Yugoslavia and the USSR

44/SarahChoukah///OfAssociated

along the lines, broadly, of their constituent republics; and so

on. South Sudan and Kosovo are the two most recent

Milieus
45/NanditaBiswasMellamphy///
GhostintheShellGame

exceptions, but they are in a short list of breaks from the

generalprinciplesincetheendoftheSecondWorldWar.The
occupationsofAfghanistanandIraq,longaftertheTalibanor
SaddamHusseinweredeposed,were,atleastinpart,totryto
preventafracturingoftheterritoryofthesestates.Yet,atthe

46/StuartElden///Chamayou's
Manhunts:FromTerritorytoSpace
47/GastnGordillo///Nazi
ArchitectureasAffectiveWeapon
48/AdrienneHart///ASensingBody

sametime,andoftenintheverysameplaces,thesovereignty

|ANetworkedMind

of states within their borders has come increasingly under

49/JoannePouzenc///TheActof

pressure. This can be for treatment of civilian populations,

Waiting

pursuitofweaponsofmassdestructionorharbouringterrorist

50/ElenaLoizidou///Dreamsof

groups. The extension of the arguments made for the first

socalled humanitarian interventionto the second and third

FlyingFlyingBodies
51/ErinManning///DressBecomes
Body:FashioningtheForceofForm

characterised the USled war on terror, even though other

dominant states have appropriated the logic and language. I
triedtomakesenseofthesequestionsinmy2009bookTerror

52/TingsChak///Racialized
GeographiesandtheFearofShips
53/AlanProhm///BuildingBody:

and Territory,[36] and to trace the historical lineages in The

TwoTreatmentsonLandingSite

Birth of Territory. Chamayous argument along with that of

54/HannaBaumann///Bodiesonthe

Derek Gregory in his forthcoming The Everywhere War

Line

helps to make sense of how the US claims this right to

55/SofiaLemos///TheNorm,

intervene, by force, drone or humanitarian intervention in

MeasureofAllThings

places all over the world, while at the same time trying to

56/InaKarkani///FramingtheWeird

preserveexistingterritorialsettlements,and,ofcourse,rigidly

Cinema

reinforcingitsownbordersandterritorialsovereignty.

Interviews

BodyinContemporaryEuropean

BryanFinoki

Notes

MadelineGins[Part1]
MadelineGins[Part2]

1. Grgoire Chamayou, Les chasses lhomme: Histoire et

MarcAntoineMathieu

philosophie du pouvoir cyngtique, Paris: La fabrique

PeterCook

ditions, 2010, p. 7; Manhunts: A Philosophical History,

R&Sie(n)

translated by Steven Rendell, Princeton: Princeton University

RajaShehadeh

Press, 2012, p. 1. On Manhunts, see also Jean Brard,

Predatory Power, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Books

WesJones

andIdeas, 3 June 2011; and on Chamayous work generally

YonaFriedman

Kieran Aarons, Cartographies of Capture, Theory & Event,

YonaFriedman(translatedin

Vol16No2,2013.

English)

SimondonWeek
2.Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme,p.7;Manhunts,p.1.

Episode1:ForanAllagmatic
Architecture:IntroductiontotheWork
ofGilbertSimondon

3.Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme,p.9;Manhunts,p.3.
Episode2:TheCitizen

4. Chamayou,Les chasses lhomme, pp. 1167; Manhunts,

p.80.SeeMichelFoucault,HistoryofMadness,translatedby
JonathanMurphyandJeanKhalfa,London:Routledge,2006.

Crafts(wo)man:SimondonAfterMarx
&Spinoza
Episode3:TopologicalLife:The
WorldCantBeFathomedinPlans
andSections

5. Michel Foucault, The Birth of Social Medicine, in Power:

Essential Work Volume 3, edited by James D. Faubion,

Episode4:NatureDoesMake
Jumps:TheSimondonianDefinition
ofLifeafterSpinozaandDarwin

London:Penguin,2001,pp.13456;Abnormal:Lecturesatthe
Collge de France 197475, translated by Graham Burchell,
New York: Picador, 2003, Michel Foucault, Discipline and
Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated by Alan Sheridan,
London:Penguin,1979.

Episode5:OfAssociatedMilieusby
SarahChoukah
Episode6:Transindividuationand
ContagionoftheCrowdsAfter
TardesSociology
Episode7:TheIndividuationof

6.

See Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population:

Lectures at the Collge de France 197778, translated by

GrahamBurchell,London:Palgrave,2009.

Bodying:SimondonasReadbyErin
Manning

SpinozaWeek
Episode1:TheMarxianReadingof
CapitalismthroughaSpinozist

7. Chamayou, Les chasses lhomme, pp. 245; Manhunts,

Conceptology

pp.1415.

Episode2:SpinozistDeterminismor
howCaesarcouldhavenotnot

8. Chamayou,Les chasses lhomme, p. 256; Manhunts, p.

15.

crossedtheRubicon
Episode3:Power(Potentia)vs.
Power(Potestas):TheStoryofa
JoyfulTyphoon

9.Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme,p.26;Manhunts,p.15.
Episode4:TheWorldofAffectsor

10. Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme, p. 27; Manhunts, pp.

whyAdamgotPoisonnedbythe
Apple

1516.
Episode5:TheSpinozistScream:

11. Chamayou, Les chasses lhomme, p. 27; Manhunts, p.

WhatcanaBodydo?
Episode6:AppliedSpinozism:The

16.

BodyinKurosawasCinema

12. Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme, p. 198; Manhunts, p.

Episode7:AppliedSpinozism:

138.

ArchitecturesoftheEarth

13.

Chamayou, Les chasses lhomme, p. 242 n. 330;

Manhunts,pp.1801n.13.
14.HannahArendt,TheOriginsofTotalitarianism,SanDiego:

Harvest,1968,p.280.

ArchitecturesoftheSkyvs.

FoucaultWeek
Episode1:MichelFoucaults
ArchitecturalUnderestimation
Episode2:DonotBecome
EnamoredofPower
Episode3:MonCorps,Topie
Impitoyable

15.

Sir Robert Jennings and Sir Arthur Watts (eds.),

Episode4:TheCartographyofPower

OppenheimsInternationalLaw,Vol.1Peace.Introductionand
Part1,London:Longman,9thedition,1996,p.384.
16.JenningsandWatts(eds.),OppenheimsInternationalLaw,

Episode5:ThePoliticalTechnology
oftheBody
Episode6:Architectureand
Discipline:TheHospital

VolI,p.384.
Episode7:Questioningthe

17.JenningsandWatts(eds.),OppenheimsInternationalLaw,

VolI,p.382.

Heterotopology
SYNTHESIS:Foucaultand
Architecture:TheEncounterthat
NeverWas

18. StuartElden,TheBirthofTerritory,Chicago:Universityof

ChicagoPress,2013.

DeleuzeWeek
Episode1:CompositionofanArchive

19. Chamayou, Les chasses lhomme, p. 28; Manhunts, p.

Episode2:Abcdaire

16.

Episode3:Whatisittobefromthe
left

20.Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme,pp.289;Manhunts,p.

Episode4:TheRitournelle(refrain)

17.

asaTerritorialSonginvokingthe

21.Chamayou,Leschasseslhomme,pp.301;Manhunts,p.

Episode5:TheBodyasaDesiring

18.

PoweroftheCosmos

Machine
Episode6:TheMinorLiterature

22.SuchasGiorgioAgamben,HomoSacer:SovereignPower

and Bare Life, translated by Daniel HellerRoazen, Stanford:

Episode7:Whatremainsfrom
FrancisBacon

StanfordUniversityPress,1998;TheKingdomandtheGlory:
For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government,
translated by Lorezo Chiesa and Matteo Mandarini, Stanford:
StanfordUniversityPress,2011.
23.

This is one of the ways Ive engaged with Foucaults

governmentalitylectures,suggestingthatwhilewhatFoucault
says explicitly on territory is misleading, he is nonetheless
extremelyhelpfulinthinkingaboutterritory.SeeStuartElden,
Howshouldwedothehistoryofterritory?Territory,Politics,
Governance, Vol 1 No 1, 2013, pp. 520; and
Governmentality, Calculation, Territory, Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 25 No 3, 2007, pp. 562
80.
24. Grgoire Chamayou, The Manhunt Doctrine, translated

byShaneLillis,RadicalPhilosophy,No169,2011,pp.26.
25.Chamayou,TheManhuntDoctrine,p.2.
26. CarlvonClausewitz,Principes fondamentaux de stratgie

militaire,translatedbyGrgoireChamayou,Paris:Milleetune
nuits, 2006. He has also translated some of Marxs historical
writings.
27. Chamayou, The Manhunt Doctrine, p. 3, citing Steven

Marks, Thomas Meer and Matthew Nilson, Manhunting: A

Methodology for Finding Persons of National Interest, thesis,
NavalPostgraduateSchool,MontereyCA,June2005,p.28.
28.Chamayou,TheManhuntDoctrine,p.3.
29. Chamayou, The Manhunt Doctrine, p. 3; Daniel Heller

Roazen, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations,

ZoneBooks,NewYork,2009.
30.Chamayou,TheManhuntDoctrine,p.3.

31.Chamayou,TheManhuntDoctrine,p.4.
32. Chamayou,Thorie du drone, Paris: La fabrique ditions,

2013. On Thorie du drone, it is well worth reading Derek

Gregorys

excellent

series

of

posts

at

his

blog

geographicalimaginations.com
33.Chamayou,Thoriedudrone,p.41.
34.Chamayou,Thoriedudrone,p.29.
35.Chamayou,TheManhuntDoctrine,p.3.
36. Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of

Sovereignty, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,

2009.

Sharethis:
Facebook 30

Twitter 19

Email

Print

Like
4 bloggers like this.

#TOPIEIMPITOYABLE///Gender,SexualityandRacesPerformativityin
ParisIsBurning
#TOPIEIMPITOYABLE///BeatrizPreciadoandtheBiopoliticalStrikeof
theUterus

Category:Books,Essays,Foucault,History,Law,Philosophy,Politics,The
FunambulistPapers

6Commentson#THE
FUNAMBULISTPAPERS46///
ChamayousManhunts:From
TerritorytoSpace?by

StuartElden
DavidGrondin
January18,2014
RebloggedthisonMilitainmentandthe
NationalSecurityStateandcommented:
ThisisanastuteanalysisofStuartEldenonGrgoire
Chamayouswork.

Pingback:Funambulistpaper46GrgoireChamayous
Manhunts:FromTerritorytoSpace?byStuartElden|
ProgressiveGeographies
Pingback:TworeflectionsonChamayousManhunts|
ProgressiveGeographies
Pingback:MondayLinkageMLKDayEditionDuckof
Minerva
Pingback:FoucaultsLastDecadeeighthupdate|
ProgressiveGeographies
Pingback:TalkingaboutPublishing,UrbanTerritory,andlots
else|ProgressiveGeographies

TheFunambulist
BlogatWordPress.com.TheAdventureTheme.