8/13 – Foucault 13/13

The Video

January 29, 2016Claire Merrill

Nancy Fraser, Kendall Thomas, and Richard Brooks discuss Foucault’s eighth lecture series at the Collège de France, Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979). Please watch the video of the seminar here or below. Please read the introductory essays by François Ewald and Bernard Harcourt,… Continue Reading →

Kendall Thomas on “Taking Discontinuity Seriously: Foucault’s Neoliberalism . . . and Ours”

January 28, 2016Claire Merrill

By Kendall Thomas As it happens, I’ve been reading Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France lectures while preparing and teaching the first classes of a semester long course at Columbia Law School on “Law and Neoliberalism.” The course is a… Continue Reading →