Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the video of the seminar here or below. Please read the introductory essays by François Ewald and Bernard Harcourt,… Continue Reading
By Kendall Thomas As it happens, I’ve been reading Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France lectures while preparing and teaching the first classes of a semester long course at Columbia Law School on “Law and Neoliberalism.” The course is a… Continue Reading
David Armitage, Adam Tooze, and Jeremy Kessler discuss Foucault’s seventh lecture series at the Collège de France, Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978). Please watch the video of the seminar here or below. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by David Armitage, Adam Tooze,… Continue Reading
Ann Stoler, Partha Chatterjee, and Bob Gooding-Williams discuss Foucault’s sixth lecture series at the Collège de France, Society Must Be Defended (1975-1976). Please watch the video here or below. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Ann Stoler, Partha Chatterjee, and… Continue Reading
Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and Anna Lvovsky discuss Foucault’s fourth lecture series at the Collège de France, Psychiatric Power (1973-1974). Please watch the video here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson,… Continue Reading
On October 9, 2015 Christopher Berk presented “Democratic Exclusions: Prisoners, patients, and children in democratic politics” at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Children, prisoners, and the cognitively disabled present a thorny boundary problem for theorists of aggregative and deliberative… 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