Text below posted on youtube . See also the European Graduate school site Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about inconsistencies in Foucault’s critique of the symbolic. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the unity of the symbolic and biological, a new theory of power outside the model of language, the genealogy of relations of …
Quel réel ? (4/4) : Foucault et la réalité de la fiction podcast@radiofrance.com durée : 00:59:44 – LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE – Par Adèle Van Reeth Réalisation : Mydia Portis-Guérin Lectures : Jean-Louis Jacopin Update August 2025. No updated link for this.
An audio version of the Roundtable “Foucault and the Courage of Truth” that took place at Goldsmiths College, January 13, 2012 is now available on the m/f website Speakers were: Professor Arnold I. Davidson (University of Chicago) Judith Revel (Université Paris 1 Pathéon-Sorbonne) Miguel De Beistegui (University of Warwick) Orazio Irrera (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
La pensée française s’exporte-t-elle bien ? August 2012 Audio podcast from LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE by podcast@radiofrance.com durée : 00:58:46 – LES NOUVEAUX CHEMINS DE LA CONNAISSANCE – par : Philippe Petit – Dans le cadre de la semaine du Livre EN DIRECT – invités : Monique Labrune, Gilles BOËTSCH, François GEZE, François …
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The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on…
A memoir in the form of a short audio interview about Foucault in the late 1950s and early 1960s. On connaît bien André Tubeuf le critique, le conteur, mais on ne connaît pas l’homme, au-delà du journaliste. Cette série d’entretiens, souvent émouvante, trace le récit d’une histoire dans l’Histoire.
Le sexe sous tous ses rapports 4/4: L’émergence de la sexualité selon Michel Foucault Adèle Van Reeth reçoit Arnold Davidson pour évoquer l’émergence de la sexualité selon Michel Foucault. Radio interview on France Culture broadcast 31 May 2012 Update August 2025. The link above is to the Wayback Machine, which preserves the text but not …
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Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism and Hegelianism, around such issues as the meaning of history…
A transcription of Foucault’s replies to questions from the audience at Berkeley’s History Department in 1983 can be found on the Variazione foucaultiane site. The transcription is by Arianna Bove and there are links to the audio on Stuart Elden’s Progressive Geographies blog.
Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Description Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book …
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