Frédéric Gros is professor of political thought at Sciences-po Paris. He is the editor of several of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – Subjectivité et vérité, L’Herméneutique du sujet, Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres, Le Courage de la vérité and is the chief… Continue Reading
Souleymane Bachir Diagne received his academic training in France. An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, he holds an agrégation in Philosophy (1978) and he took his Doctorat d’État in philosophy at the Sorbonne (1988) where he also took his… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel Translated by Raphaëlle Jean Burns There are, I think, two ways of grasping these lectures. The first is to attempt to understand how Foucault develops, from the beginning of the 1980s onwards, a “greco-roman sequence” which he… Continue Reading
Judith Revel is Professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense where she is also a member of the Sophiapol laboratory (Sociologie, philosophie et socio-anthropologie politiques) and director of the research project “Discipliner l’Archive ?” (2016-2018) in… Continue Reading
Rosi Braidotti: B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD Cum Laude, Université de Paris, -Sorbonne, 1981; Senior Fulbright Scholar, 1994; Honorary Degrees University of Helsinki, 2007; University of Linkoping, 2013. Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005; Honorary… Continue Reading
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He writes and teaches on a variety of subjects that ultimately converge on questions of the poetics and politics of modernity and democracy. He is the author of… Continue Reading
Professor Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New… Continue Reading
In On the Government of the Living Michel Foucault explicitly links and articulates in an original way two of the main philosophical and political projects he never ceased to pursue in his works of the 1970s and the 1980s: on… Continue Reading
Daniele Lorenzini is Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He is the author most recently of Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire (Vrin, 2015). He is the… Continue Reading
By Agnese Codebò “I am calling grotesque the fact that, by virtue of their status, a discourse or an individual can have effects of power that their intrinsic qualities should disqualify them from having.” (Abnormal, p. 11) In the opening seminar… Continue Reading