By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “Reading Penal Theories and Institutions”] “Women, prisoners, conscripts, asylum patients, homosexuals have now begun a specific struggle of resistance against the particular forms of power, of constraint, of… Continue Reading
Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). Please join us and watch the recording. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures along with the posts by… 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