Foucault News

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

Play reading: Softcops Sunday 30 October, 11.30am Royal Shakespeare Theatre, £10 A script-in-hand reading of Caryl Churchill’s rarely performed masterpiece about the criminal justice system. The cast includes Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory in Doctor Who, Geoffrey Streatfeild, known to RSC audiences for his performances as Prince Hal and Henry V in the 2006-2008 Histories …

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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 …

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Performance in New York by Annie Dorsen based on the television debate between Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. Jan 6-22 See this interview with author Annie Dorsen New York director Annie Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration …

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‘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 …

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