Foucault News

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

Daniel Defert, Interview (in French), on Oxford University mosaic site Around 1968: Activism, networks, trajectories, Interview conducted in Paris 7 April 2008, audio recording and transcript. Interviewed by Robert Gildea and transcribed by Koisse Said English translation and audio […] RG : Et c’est quand vous étiez à Saint-Cloud que vous avez rencontré Foucault ? …

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Daniel Defert, Une vie politique. Entretiens avec Philippe Artières et Éric Favereau. Seuil, 2014 En 1984, le sida entre tragiquement dans la vie de Daniel Defert avec la mort de Michel Foucault. En hommage à celui qui fut son compagnon de vie pendant près de vingt-cinq ans, le sociologue crée Aides, la première association française …

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Didier Fassin : « Une surveillance s’exerce sur la recherche » (2023), L’Humanité, 3 Février 2023, Latifa Madani Dans son dernier livre, La Recherche à l’épreuve du politique, l’anthropologue et sociologue alerte sur les dangers auxquels s’exposent les chercheurs et plaide pour la liberté du champ des savoirs. La recherche est une épreuve à risques. …

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Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become: An Interview with Sociologist Nikolas Rose, Mad in America, 19 August 2020 MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews the well-known sociologist of medicine, Nikolas Rose, about the role psychiatry plays in shaping how we manage ourselves and our world. ikolas Rose is a professor of Sociology in the Department of …

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Impressões de Foucault: Entrevista com Roberto Machado Sociologia & Antropologia. 7 (1) • Jan-Abr 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752017v711 Open access Resumo Nesta entrevista sobre Michel Foucault, Roberto Machado aborda sua atualidade e seu impacto nas ciências humanas; os tipos de estudo que caracterizam diferentes momentos de sua trajetória intelectual; as singularidades de seu pensamento – o …

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Edmund White witnessed the Stonewall riots, just the beginning of a revolutionary life By John Russell, LGBTQ Nation, Tuesday, October 11, 2022 The author shares intimate details of his life as a writer and activist, including the new graphic novel adaptation of ‘A Boy’s Own Story.’ […] You also co-founded Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC). …

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Interviews with Foucauldians – Dr Perry Zurn Overthink Podcasts Jan 19, 2022 In this video, philosophy professor David M. Peña-Guzmán interviews Dr. Perry Zurn about his work about Michel Foucault, prison abolition, and curiosity studies. This video was created as part of a series for a graduate seminar at San Francisco State University on the …

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Open HistoryThe Archaeology of Retrocomputing KULTURVERLAG KADMOS 2021 New Books network, Podcast, Sep 16, 2022 Today I talked to Stefan Höltgen about his book Open History: The Archaeology of Retrocomputing (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021). How can historical computers be described properly from the viewpoint of computer science? By considering media archaeology’s theory of operative and thus …

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Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender. The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, Chicago University Press, 2022 Interview (podcast) with the author on the New Books network An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center …

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