In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Abnormal (1974-1975), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles. This fifth session will take… Continue Reading
By Emmanuelle Saada In Abnormal, Foucault studies “the emergence of the power of normalization, the way in which it has been formed, the way in which it has established itself without ever resting on a single institution but by establishing… Continue Reading
In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Psychiatric Power (1973-1974), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles. This fourth session will take… Continue Reading
By Partha Chatterjee On the question of “the war of all against all”, Didier, Nadia and Bernard made important interventions to situate Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures in the political context of the time. But it seems to me that there is… Continue Reading
Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University, Department of Political Science. She is permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna of Pisa and teaches courses at… Continue Reading
By Nadia Urbinati If I concern myself with the G.I.P. [Groupe d’information sur les prisons], it is because I prefer effective work to university chattering and scribbling books. …On the other hand, a concrete political action in favor of prisoners… 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
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
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
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia .… Continue Reading