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
By Ann Stoler (Footnotes need to be linked) Before beginning, I want to thank Bernard and Jesus for conceiving of this project and for making possible the participation of so many of us long immersed in Foucault’s work, the gathering… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt At two key junctures in his 1975 lectures Abnormal, Foucault turns his attention to the way in which the figure of the abnormal gives way, in the last years of the nineteenth century, to “the problem… Continue Reading