By Lydia H. Liu I think we may have to suspect that we find it impossible today to constitute an ethic of the self, even though it may be an urgent, fundamental, and politically indispensable task, if it is true… Continue Reading
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is a long and rather experimental set of lectures for Foucault. The organization of the materials and the discussion are different than in other academic years. We have asked our guests, Rosi Braidotti, Rosalind Morris,… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Welcome to Foucault 10/13! Today we are going to explore the productive intersection of two of Foucault’s lines of inquiry. Here, on the one hand, this as yet untranslated book –or rather, as we always try… Continue Reading
In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing On the Government of the Living (1979-1980), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles.… Continue Reading
By John Owen Havard In the fourth lecture of On the Government of the Living (GL), Foucault makes some remarkable—not to mention playful—statements about his own critical practice, perhaps some of the most revealing found in his entire oeuvre. I will… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco It is at the beginning of his lectures On the Government of the Living that Michel Foucault explains to his students—to those heterogeneous, even heteroclite set of students he had at the Collège de France—that he… Continue Reading
By John Protevi In last night’s seminar Adam Tooze referred to Deleuze’s reading of Foucault. In this note I’d like to propose that we can see elements of Deleuze’s thought in Foucault’s lectures in the mid-to-late 1970s. I don’t want to claim anything… Continue Reading
By Adam Tooze In 1975-6 with Society Must be Defended (SMD) Foucault rebooted the project of the Collège de France lectures. The aim, as he states and restates in both SMD and Security, Territory and Population (STP) is a critical… Continue Reading
By John Protevi I’d like to make two comments here. First, about the “boomerang effect” (SD 103): seminar participants [Jean Cohen, Nadia Urbinati, Ann Stoler, Alex Gil, Neni Panourgià] mentioned several names, including that of Césaire and the Discourse on Colonialism where Nazi… Continue Reading
By Robert Gooding-Williams My comments focus on Foucault’s analysis of modern racism in Society Must Be Defended. Part 1 explains the “how-possibly” question that motivates Foucault’s analysis. Part 2 explains and evaluates Foucault’s answer to that question, giving particular attention… Continue Reading