Akeel Bilgrami: The two questions you posed to Veena Das and Emmanuelle Saada immediately following their presentations at Foucault 5/13 brought sharp focus to what preceded them. I’d like to raise a quick question about each of the two questions. 1) To… 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
Emmanuelle Saada is a historian and sociologist whose work engages in law, citizenship, and colonial empire. Professor Saada is Associate Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She has taught at the Institute of French Studies at New York… Continue Reading
By Veena Das In Michel Serres’s moving tribute to Foucault, as he comments on Histoire de la folie, madness appears as the geometry of the incommunicable. “Very profoundly, then, the lessons of this book take up those of Nietzsche, as well as… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “This year, then, instead of considering the mechanics of the disciplinary apparatus, I will be looking at their effects of normalization, at what they are directed toward, the effects they can achieve and that can be… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Les Anormaux. Cours au Collège de France. 1974-1975, Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni, eds. (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 1999). Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975, Graham Burchell trans., Arnold… Continue Reading
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Johns Hopkins University in 2000, she taught at the Delhi School of Economics for more than thirty years and also held a joint appointment at the… Continue Reading