Foucault News

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

Victoria Wasylak, Our Modern Dystopia: Schooltree shake up the rock opera with ‘Heterotopia’, Vanyaland: Music and Beyond, March 29, 2017 Somewhere over time, in between spoken lore and salty Facebook statuses, the rock opera was the en vogue way to recount epic stories. While the trend might have seen its peak of popularity around The …

Continue reading

Mitchell Dean, Rebel, Rebel? Revisiting the radical legacy of Michel Foucault via David Bowie, Stanford University Press blog, 19 Feb 2016 In order to understand any major thinker and their legacy, it is important to consider their context—a truism that is very hard to put into practice, especially when the thinker in question belongs both …

Continue reading

Heterotopia Remixes Vol. 2 Astral Plane Recordings . Play list Music available on site 1.Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf — Public Love (Air Max ’97 Bootleg)04:22 2.Kid Antoine — Nightvision (Mike G Remix)05:13 3.Rushmore — Moment X (Victoria Kim’s Kowloon Edit)03:48 4.Celestial Trax — Illuminate (Iglew Remix)05:01 5.Victoria Kim — Apgu Freeway (Rushmore Remix)04:11 6.Arkitect — Foucault’s …

Continue reading

Originally posted on The Astral Plane:
Release day is always a bit bittersweet, because, despite all the dithering and busy work that goes into releasing music, it means that the process is almost over. That being said, Heterotopia has been a passion project of ours for quite some time now and it’s with great, treacly pleasure that…

7 PROPOS SUR LE 7E ANGE THÉÂTRE — MUSIQUE Du 18 juin 2014 au 23 juin 2014 du lundi au samedi [19h30], le dimanche [17h] DUREE 1h PDF Texte Michel Foucault Preface de la grammaire logique de jean-pierre brisset Mise en scène Bruno Boulzaguet Composition Jean-Christophe Feldhandler Théâtre de L’échangeur, Bagnolet 59, Avenue du General …

Continue reading

From The Boston Globe, April 9 2013 The Knife, ‘Shaking the Habitual’ Calling “Shaking the Habitual” an album sells it short. The latest from the Swedish electronic duo the Knife, it’s more along the lines of an installation piece you’d find at a gallery, a knotty tangle of polyrhythms, distorted vocals, and heady influences ranging …

Continue reading

7 PROPOS DU SEPTIÈME ANGE D’après Michel Foucault Création collective de Bruno Boulzaguet Jeu : Bruno Boulzaguet Percussions : Jean Christophe Feldhandler Lumières : Olivier Oudiou. Penseur excentrique, écrivain prophétique et linguiste « juché au point extrême du délire » (Selon Michel Foucault), Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919) était animé d’une confiance absolue dans les raisonnements les …

Continue reading

‘The History Of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera’, 2010, Premiere Gregg Bordowitz (USA) / Paul Chan (J/USA) 01./ 02.10.10 Fri 1 Oct / Sat 2 Oct., 8.30 pm in TQW / Halle G Tickets: € 18,- (Reductions and Online-Ticketing on http://www.tqw.at) Gregg Bordowitz talks about his opera version of The History of …

Continue reading