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 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 Daniele Lorenzini I have followed with great interest, from Paris, the discussions which arose before, during, and after the first three meetings of the seminar “Foucault 13/13”, and I really look forward to “Foucault 4/14”, which is going to… Continue Reading
In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Psychiatric Power (1973-1974), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles.This fourth session will take place… Continue Reading
By Anna Lvovsky Psychiatric Power is an ambitious and provocative set of lectures, not least as a fulcrum between Foucault’s more famous published works: History of Madness, on the one hand, whose approach Foucault now partly derogates, and History of Sexuality, which will… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt While the previous year’s lectures on The Punitive Society focused in large part on the birth of the penitentiary and were motivated by the question “why the prison one hundred and fifty years ago, and for one hundred… Continue Reading
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati discuss Foucault’s third lecture series at the Collège de France, The Punitive Society (1972-1973). Please watch the video here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati and the framing… Continue Reading
By Axel Honneth By contrast to Nadia Urbinati, whose comments I read with great interest and from which I learned a lot, I will concentrate in my remarks on some theoretical premises within Foucault’s fascinating lectures on The Punitive Society. There… Continue Reading
In preparation of the third seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing The Punitive Society (1972-1973), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the… Continue Reading