Ann Stoler, Partha Chatterjee, and Bob Gooding-Williams discuss Foucault’s sixth lecture series at the Collège de France, Society Must Be Defended (1975-1976). Please watch the video here or below. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Ann Stoler, Partha Chatterjee, and… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The penetrating comments by Ann Stoler, Partha Chatterjee, and Bob Gooding-Williams raise four important themes for our seminar discussion: The place of “truth and historical forms” in Foucault’s discussion of the discourse of race wars; The… Continue Reading
By John Protevi I’d like to make two comments here. First, about the “boomerang effect” (SD 103): seminar participants [Jean Cohen, Nadia Urbinati, Ann Stoler, Alex Gil, Neni Panourgià] mentioned several names, including that of Césaire and the Discourse on Colonialism where Nazi… Continue Reading
By Partha Chatterjee The subject of these lectures is war. Given all that is happening in France right now, it seems utterly appropriate that we should be looking back today at these lectures delivered by Michel Foucault in Paris in 1976.… Continue Reading
By Robert Gooding-Williams My comments focus on Foucault’s analysis of modern racism in Society Must Be Defended. Part 1 explains the “how-possibly” question that motivates Foucault’s analysis. Part 2 explains and evaluates Foucault’s answer to that question, giving particular attention… Continue Reading