Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…
ON FOUCAULT’S OBSCURITY: informational prosaicity vs transformational poeticity Posted on July 19, 2013 by terenceblake From the Agent Swarm blog Possible sources of the appearance of obscurity: 1) Vocabulary: French being Latin based looks more complicated than it is when viewed by an English speaker. I remember my surprise when I first arrived in France …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronologie’/’Chronology’ in Dits et écrits/A Companion to Foucault, he makes reference to a publication entitled Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France. This is in the entry for October 1973 (p. 44/55), and Defert suggests that it published some of the results of research projects…
Jean-Philippe Cazier, Deleuze, Foucault et la littérature On the Mediapart site 06 mars 2013. Lire une œuvre ne consiste pas à lui appliquer une grille théorique, à la placer dans des cadres conceptuels a priori, à expliquer ce que l’auteur a voulu dire mais sans le dire, à extraire de l’œuvre une signification enfin claire …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Until recently, there were only two texts by Foucault explicitly on Nietzsche. 1. ‘Nietzsche, Freud, Marx’, Cahiers de Royaumont, VI, 1967, pp. 183-200. (The note in Dits et écrits says this was from a symposium at Royaumont in July 1964.) 2. ‘Nietzsche, la génealogie, l’histoire’, in Hommage à Jean Hyppolite, Paris: PUF, 1971, pp.…
John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy From the Open Culture site, July 1 2013 It is sometimes noted–typically with admiration–that France is a place where a philosopher can still be a celebrity. It sounds laudable. But celebrity culture can be corrosive, both to the culture at large and to the celebrities …
Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…
Out of Unmündigkeit – Final Thoughts on Translating Kant on Enlightenment Extract from a post from James Schmidt’s blog Persistant Englightenment. Where Foucault Got it Right In opting for “exit” I allowed my reason to be guided by one particular discussion of Kant’s essay: that of Michel Foucault. In his Berkeley lecture on the question “What …
Adrian Blau has posted a critique of definitions of governmentality both in Foucault’s own work and in the secondary literature on his blog. Part 1 deals with Foucault’s own definitions. Part 2 deals with the secondary literature. The author welcomes feedback on his remarks. Extract from Part 1 Foucault’s definition of governmentality is widely quoted …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a summary table of the plans, the lecture courses and related…
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