摘要：Drawing on Michel Foucault's understanding of power and governmentality,
this paper advances an initial reflection aimed at developing a "political
geography of mediation'', concerned with the question of what "makes'' and
what "happens within'' the imbrications of power and space. This discussion
is structured into three main parts. Firstly, the paper considers two levels
on which Foucault addresses the question of how (through what means) power
is exercised and constituted, relating to the techniques of power on the one
hand and to the discursive regimes underpinning and shaping these techniques
on the other. Secondly, two ideal typical spatial logics of power are
discussed, relating to what Foucault calls apparatuses of discipline and
apparatuses of security. This will show how thinking about mediation in a
Foucauldian sense allows for a conceptualisation of the imbrications of
space and power. Thirdly, the paper advances one specific proposition of how
to further pursue from a contemporary geographical perspective Foucault's
"technical'' approach to the functioning of power. In so doing, the paper
develops a programmatic reflection on power, space and regulation in the
information age.
