Some books bought new or second-hand recently, including some for ‘Sunday History’ posts; the first two volumes of the Arden Shakespeare fourth series; and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Coils of Critical History, … Continue reading →
Psicanalista Vera Iaconelli fala sobre machismo e de como as mulheres estão a frente dos homens nessa desconstrução
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La irrupción de Javier Milei en la política argentina no puede explicarse únicamente como un fenómeno electoral ni como el … Más
The audio recording of Foucault’s interview with Charles Ruas about Raymond Roussel is now online. Foucault did this interview late in life, about one of his least-known books, translated into English as Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond … Continue reading →
Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy: Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power – SUNY Press, November 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles … Continue reading →
Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society: A Reappraisal – Routledge, February 2026 Thanks to Foucault News for the link This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, … Continue reading →
In March last year I shared news of the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s two theses – what became the History of Madness and his introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À … Continue reading →
John K. Simon, Modern French Criticism; Maria-Antoinetta Macciocchi, Les femmes et leurs maîtres; Laura Spinney, Proto; Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death; a special issue on Jean Leray; Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic and J.P. Mallory, … Continue reading →
Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access) Lots of interesting papers and reviews, including “Genealogy as Critical Practice: Toward a Reading of Affective Genealogy” by my former PhD Mostyn Taylor Crockett.
(Le Point, 23 av. 26). "Inventer du fascisme pour devenir antifasciste."
Mario Vargas Llosa schreibt über die Selbsttäuschung von Michel Foucault und den Sophismus unserer Tage (#ad Alles Boulevard, 2014, S. 88–90): Nicht von ungefähr erwähne ich Michel Foucault als ein paradoxes Beispiel. Seine Kritik war ernst gemeint, und sein libertäres Ideal ist unbestreitbar. Seine Vorbehalte gegen die westliche Kultur – die trotz aller Begrenztheiten und […]
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Há um momento raro, e intelectualmente produtivo, em que o cinema nos surpreende não apenas esteticamente, mas metodologicamente. Entrei na sala esperando um filme romântico, com algum exercício de tensão íntima, e saí com a sensação de ter assistido a um experimento ético que dialoga diretamente com o núcleo duro da minha pesquisa sobre ataques […]
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As I said in the last update, I went to the EUI in Florence at the beginning of February with a nearly complete draft of my manuscript on Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France, and had the plan to leave at the … Continue reading →
The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to work, returning home, sitting down to eat. These things coexisted
In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he tells a personal story on a performed kinship, ordinary horror and the meaning of belonging
With only rare exceptions, I’ve not tended to buy second-hand books with a view to the edition or dedications. Generally, I’ve been getting hold of copies because of the content, and the relatively few times I’ve looked for a first … Continue reading →
Dans _L'impossible famille Rivière_ , Jeanne Favret-Saada livre un nouveau regard sur Pierre Rivière, le matricide dont Michel Foucault avait publié le mémoire autobiographique. Ce faisant, elle nous offre une magistrale leçon d’anthropologie historique.
Cet article Le genre d’un crime est apparu en premier sur En attendant Nadeau.
The statue is a daily reminder that we are in the midst of a reconquest—in the United States, and, of course, in Europe.
Calling this sophistry is not polemical. Sophistry was never about lying outright. It was about persuasive coherence in the service of authority. IR excels at this. It teaches how to speak about power in ways that preserve its prerogatives, how to critique without consequence and how to manage domination without ever calling it by name
Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 one are now available online. The 1972 course has recently been transcribed as Histoire de la vérité, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera. … Continue reading →
In April 1972, during his second teaching visit to SUNY Buffalo, Michel Foucault visited Attica prison. The two visits to Buffalo are important for his teaching, which I discuss briefly here and in more detail in a piece in Foucault Studies. Leonhard Riep discusses … Continue reading →
At various points over the last twenty-five years or so, I’ve debated writing different books on territory. Many of the articles I’ve written on this topic were early versions of parts of the books I did write on territory, but … Continue reading →
(Le Point, 19 jan. 23). 1978 : la France héberge, à Neauphle-le-Château, le plus farouche opposant du Chah d'Iran, l'imam Khomeyni,
An interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism was held in France in September 1970. Attended by a wide range of speakers, it was an interesting moment in the French reception of this trend in ‘French theory’. Back in October 2022 I posted a … Continue reading →
I’ve updated the list of English translations of Émile Benveniste’s work on this site to include a couple of articles. I’ve not shared many research resources from my Indo-European thought project, but there is a list of Ferdinand de Saussure’s notes … Continue reading →
A very interesting short piece about spending the 1971-72 academic year in Paris – Trevor Pateman, “Roland Barthes: Writer, Intellectual, and also Professor”, Barthes Studies, 2025 (open access). It briefly mentions Foucault: But Barthes’ preferences were very similar to Foucault’s … Continue reading →
“Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de France“, Raisons politiques 100, 2025, 15-52 This is very interesting – a seminar discussing Paul Veyne’s “Foucault révolutionne l’histoire”. A presentation by Veyne, response by Foucault and contributions by … Continue reading →
19 February 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Umberto Eco. I only heard Eco speak once, at a book reading in October 1995 for The Island of the Day Before. Mario Vargas Llosa was the other scheduled speaker, but … Continue reading →
The draft of the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve just begun a Fernand Braudel fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. My plan was to come here with a complete draft, and to leave with a better … Continue reading →
Bien loin d’évacuer la violence, la modernité néo-libérale et technologique est en train de la systématiser à tous les acteurs de la société en la changeant de forme. Telle est la thèse que formule Byung-Chul Han dans sa Topologie de la violence (2011), traduit en français en 2024 (éditions R&N). Le philosophe sud-coréen, professeur à l’Université des...