At the beginning of his lecture, Security, Territory, Population (1977/78), Michel Foucault raises the question of whether it can be regarded as true "that the general economy of power in our societies is becoming a domain of security." 1 This question should not be answered hastily here. Rather, it is to serve as a starting-point for a reflection on Michel Foucault's thinking in the field of security. This text goes back to an interdisciplinary workshop on Security Dispositifs. Technology-Space-Event 2 held at Freiburg in May 2012 that brought together scholars from the fields of geography, sociology, literature, criminology, anthropology, and Media Studies. Following the presentations and discussions there, this text will demonstrate how contemporary theories of security draw on Foucauldian thinking for developing their theses, terms, and categories. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the potentials of connecting Foucault's work on security dispositifs to contemporary analyses of strategies and regimes of (in-)security. Thus, this text will address five central issues: security as dispositif (1), population and crowds (2), technologies of security (3), temporalities of security (4), and spaces of security (5), giving a conclusion and an outlook at the end (6).

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