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 control… 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 of tens of passageways that, as… Continue Reading
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
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 The manuscript of Foucault’s second annual lectures, titled Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972), begins brusquely: “No introduction,” Foucault jots down on his notes. “The raison d’être of this course: One need only open one’s eyes.” (T&IP,… Continue Reading