Robert Badinter, a just man for posterity EDITORIAL Le Monde, 10 February 2024 The former French justice minister died on Friday. It is salutary to recall his righteousness and intransigence at a time when France’s interior minister is pitting politics against law, the role of the Constitutional Council is being challenged, and prison overcrowding is …
Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization – podcast (February 2024) The date is not listed on the site Interview with Toby Miller as part of his Cultural Studies podcast interviews Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization You can read …
“El Foucault que viene” | Conversatorio con Daniele Lorenzini (2023) Streamed live on Oct 4, 2023 Discusión sobre “El discurso filosófico” (1966), editado por Daniele Lorenzini y Orazio Irrera
Theoretical Puppets: K is for Knowledge, 20 November 2023 In this video, Foucault addresses a distinction crucial for his understanding of “knowledge,” namely the difference between “knowledge” in general (savoir) and “scientific knowledge” (connaissance). Knowledge tends to be something like a system of belief, even a kind of ideology. At the same time, it is …
Valentina Antoniol, “Society Must Be Defended. Society Must Be Attacked: Foucault as a Critic of Schmitt” Public lecture, 25 May 2023.
Interview/podcast Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth, Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Hosted by Richard Grijalva, New Books Network, Nov 1, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands …
Hannah Lyn Venable – Madness in Experience and History. Interview with Giorgi Vachnadze on the Silence of Savoir channel, October 28 2023 Professor Venable is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Mary. Dr. Venable specializes in History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (including Phenomenology, Post-modernism, Recent French philosophy), Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Psychology and …
A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott’s ‘Telling Silence’ (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis), Acid Horizon podcast, 9 October 2023. Charles E. Scott, Telling Silence. Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences, SUNY Press, November 2023. Description In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in …
La philosophie de Ian Hacking, avec Matteo Vagelli, July 18 2023
Gabriel Rockhill, The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback, Monthly Review, 1 June 2023 Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have multiple different aspects and internal contradictions. They cannot be easily summed up in terms of a …
