By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich conversation at the Foucault 11/13 seminar left me more convinced than ever of the tentative hypothesis that I proposed during the discussion period: namely, that Foucault’s own elaboration of the techniques of the self in these 1982… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The insightful interventions of Rosi Braidotti, Lydia Liu, and Rosalind Morris press hard on key questions relating Foucault’s genealogy of the desiring subject to his political project—both his overarching political project at the Collège de France and his… Continue Reading
By Lydia H. Liu I think we may have to suspect that we find it impossible today to constitute an ethic of the self, even though it may be an urgent, fundamental, and politically indispensable task, if it is true… Continue Reading
By Rosalind C. Morris 1. In lieu of summary: the detranscendentalization of conversion? In many ways, the overall argument of The Hermeneutics of the Subject is a simple one. Or at least, it is a summarizable one. Within something called… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “We need movements that encourage care of self, self care. […] We have to incorporate rituals and processes of self care within the very processes of activism.” — Angela Y. Davis, Keynote Speech, Beyond the Bars… Continue Reading