Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). Please join us and watch the recording. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures along with the posts by… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Étienne Balibar and François Ewald have both delved into the complex relationship that Foucault entertained with Marxism, with Althusser, and with the maos. The lectures in Foucault’s Penal Theories and Institutions (PT&I) are a complex labyrinth of tens of passageways that, as… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Étienne Balibar and François Ewald have both delved into the complex relationship that Foucault entertained with Marxism, with Althusser, and with the maos. The lectures in Foucault’s Penal Theories and Institutions (PT&I) are a complex labyrinth… Continue Reading
By François Ewald Translated by Raphaëlle Jean Burns “It is true that the State interests me, but it interests me only differentially. I do not think that all the powers which are exercised within a society—and that ensure the hegemony of… Continue Reading
Etienne Balibar is a French philosopher and a professor at Columbia University. His publications in English include: Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and al., Verso, 1965); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988); We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press,… Continue Reading
François Robert Ewald is the general editor of the entire series of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures and was Foucault’s principal assistant at the Collège de France. Currently, he chairs the Scientific Committee of the Université de l’Assurance and… Continue Reading
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In preparation of the second seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Penal Theories and Instititions (1971-1972), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on… Continue Reading
This second session will take place at the Casa Hispánica, 612 West 116th Street, room 201 at 6:15 pm sharp. You can get to Casa Hispánica following these directions. There will be a live, active “live-stream and tweeting” room (the “LST room”). For this… Continue Reading
By François Ewald [a translation by Raphaëlle Jean Burns will be posted shortly] « Il est vrai que l’Etat m’intéresse, mais il ne m’intéresse que différentiellement. Je ne crois pas que l’ensemble des pouvoirs qui sont exercés à l’intérieur d’une société… Continue Reading