Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with Foucault in a cowboy hat, which was a gift from…
Tsiakiri, L. Euthanasia: Promoter of Autonomy or Supporter of Biopower? (2022) Conatus – Journal of Philosophy, 7 (1), pp. 123-133. DOI: 10.12681/cjp.25088 Abstract The medical developments and their subsequent influence on the duration of human life have brought in the limelight various moral questions. The pathological conditions do not constitute anymore the decisive causes of …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I found this yesterday, while looking for something else. It’s Foucault’s library card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France, found on their images site. I can’t read and/or decipher it all, but here’s what I can work out. The photo looks like early 1960s to me, and there is a…
Originally posted on affecognitive:
Duke University Press, 2021 In an interview conducted a month or so before his death, Foucault took up the notion of problématisation that had structured The Use of Pleasure. This time the context is not Foucault’s scholarly attention to “the conditions in which human beings ‘problematize’ what they are, what they…
Special Issue: Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, No. 12 (2022) From the Editors Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science Marlon Salomon Dossiers (Issue-specific topics) Number and Things Foucauldian Contributions to the Work of Ian Hacking María Laura Martínez Heterotopia as a Reconstruction of the …
Meredith TenHoor, Care Beyond Biopolitics, e-flux Architecture, May 2022 What would it mean to design buildings that exceed the economic accountings of liberal biopolitics, that instead offer an entirely different rationale for supporting health? In the years that Michel Foucault conceptualized the term biopolitics, he was part of a constellation of researchers and architects who …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The final book in my series of studies of Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, is due for publication with Polity in December 2022. On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these significant…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I had a good two-week visit to Paris, where I worked at both the Mitterand and Richelieu sites of the Bibliothèque nationale, the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure. It was something of a transitional trip, doing a little with some loose ends on the Foucault work, an article, the Mitra-Varuna editing,…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
At Berfrois, I review Paul Allen Miller’s recent book Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth … As Foucault tells the story, he turned to pagan antiquity because he needed to break from the secondary accounts he had initially relied upon. Foucault scholarship has long grappled with the…
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On Wednesday afternoon, I submitted the final, revised manuscript of?The Archaeology of Foucault?to Polity. I’d submitted the manuscript for review in February during Warwick’s reading week, and had two very positive and useful reports back at the end of March. The final revisions were completed this week, and the book…
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