By Agnese Codebò, Raphaëlle Burns, Ibai Atuxta, and Luca Provenzano The Live Streaming and Twitter (LST) room is a dynamic, interactive space, that will be run simultaneously alongside the Foucault 13/13 seminar room. Our mission is to extend participation beyond the… Continue Reading
By James D. Faubion In what appears as an appendix to his first year of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault summarizes the task he has undertaken as a “test of the utilizability” of the “Nietzschean model” of the… Continue Reading
By Nancy Luxon Already Bernard Harcourt’s wonderfully synoptic introduction of these Lectures on the Will to Know has recalled something of the events preoccupying Foucault and perhaps his audience in the post-68 moment. These preoccupations around law, economic distribution, and… Continue Reading
James D. Faubion is Varoslav Tsanoff Chair, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the editor ofRethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought (Boulder: Westview, 1995); the second… Continue Reading
Nancy Luxon joined the Political Science department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2007, after two years at the University of Chicago’s Society of Fellows. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power, authority,… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco During Foucault’s first trip to the USA in the Spring of 1971, John K. Simon interviewed him for the Partisan Review. At the outset of the interview, and after having rejected that he had invented a… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s first lecture series, Lectures on the Will to Know (1970-1971), introduces a number of important themes concerning knowledge, the will to know, and the power of truth and truth-telling—themes that Foucault would develop during the next… Continue Reading
Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an overwhelmingly good response, and we have more applications than available seats. Please accept our apologies. The application process is now officially closed. However,… Continue Reading