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 Agnese Codebò “I am calling grotesque the fact that, by virtue of their status, a discourse or an individual can have effects of power that their intrinsic qualities should disqualify them from having.” (Abnormal, p. 11) In the opening seminar… Continue Reading
Dear friends and colleagues, We will begin today’s seminar at the Maison Française at 7pm in silence. We want to mourn for all those who have been struck by acts of warfare violence unleashed during the last week. We think… Continue Reading
By Emmanuelle Saada (Footnotes need to be linked) 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… Continue Reading
By Veena Das (Footnotes need to be properly linked) 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,… 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