By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault was not fond of the concept of Revolution, Daniel Defert reminded us in his opening presentation at the Uprising 6/13 seminar on Revolt: Foucault on Iran. Nor did Foucault identify a Revolution in the streets… Continue Reading
By Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different. Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Revolutionary moments, like a thunderbolt… Continue Reading
By John Rajchman Is it useless to revolt – to ‘rise up’? Foucault asked this question in 1979, responding to storm of criticism unleashed by his newspaper reports on the events unfolding in Iran. Is it useless now, when, faced with… Continue Reading
By Daniel Defert At first, I refused Bernard Harcourt’s proposal to speak again of Foucault’s papers on the Iranian Revolution. Since nearly forty years these papers have been read in “the shadow of the Islamic republic,” then of “Islamism as… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel On connaît l’intensité du débat qui s’est développé à partir des interventions de Michel Foucault sur l’Iran, sa véhémence aussi. La dureté des critiques qui ont été formulées il y a presque quarante ans ressurgit encore aujourd’hui… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini In this paper, I raise the question of whether Michel Foucault’s ‘toolbox’ can be useful in order to think of collective forms of resistance or not. I focus on some of the historical examples Foucault himself commented… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Michel Foucault identified in the Iranian uprising of 1978 a modality of religious political revolt and a form of political spirituality that privileged, in the secular realm, expressly religious aspirations. What Foucault discovered in Iran was,… Continue Reading