Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Erzsébet Strausz, Being in Discourse with Foucault:The Practice of Life, Theory & Event, Volume 16, Issue 4, 2013

Further info

Abstract
This article performs an experimental reading of Foucault’s selected writings as a creative intervention into the operation of “discourse” and our formation in it both as academic “knowers” and subjects of contemporary government. Drawing inspiration from Foucault’s intellectual project read as a series of responses to his diagnoses of “our historical present”, it seeks to develop a practice of writing and scholarly discussion that provides alternative vistas of engagement between writer, reader and text. Ultimately, the project sets out to re-politicize everyday practices of academic life, (in the hope of) enabling the emergence of new experiences of both discourse and self.

This article is part of a symposium titled: The Power of Life’s Excess: Contesting Sovereignty from Sites that do not exist
Editors: Andreja Zevnik, Erzsébet Strausz, and Simona Rentea

2 thoughts on “Being in Discourse with Foucault:The Practice of Life

  1. Reposted on my facebook. Are you aware of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. I wish you would get on the faculty there. https://www.facebook.com/globalcenterforadvancedstudies

    Like

  2. Badiou is teaching an online course there now and someone else is doing Lacan, his 5th Lecture. They are working in different languages also.

    Like

Leave a reply to seymourblogger Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.