By François Ewald Translated by Raphaëlle Jean Burns “It is true that the State interests me, but it interests me only differentially. I do not think that all the powers which are exercised within a society—and that ensure the hegemony of… Continue Reading
Etienne Balibar is a French philosopher and a professor at Columbia University. His publications in English include: Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and al., Verso, 1965); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988); We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press,… Continue Reading
François Robert Ewald is the general editor of the entire series of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures and was Foucault’s principal assistant at the Collège de France. Currently, he chairs the Scientific Committee of the Université de l’Assurance and… Continue Reading
This second session will take place at the Casa Hispánica, 612 West 116th Street, room 201 at 6:15 pm sharp. You can get to Casa Hispánica following these directions. There will be a live, active “live-stream and tweeting” room (the “LST room”). For this… Continue Reading
By François Ewald [a translation by Raphaëlle Jean Burns will be posted shortly] « Il est vrai que l’Etat m’intéresse, mais il ne m’intéresse que différentiellement. Je ne crois pas que l’ensemble des pouvoirs qui sont exercés à l’intérieur d’une société… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar Translated by Raphaëlle Jean Burns By way of preparation for the second seminar, I would like to make a few remarks on the trace of Althusser in these lectures, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). Naturally, I cannot claim that… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco You probably remember those intense moments at the beginning of courses like La société punitive (1972-73), or Le courage de la vérité 1984). In them, the “new archivist”, as Deleuze called Foucault, complains about the very institution and about the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt (Gallimard/Le Seuil 2015) For those within the Columbia University community, our associate librarian for the Foucault 13/13 series, Alex… Continue Reading