Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in the New Academic Building, room NAB 1.07. Full details here.

The collaborative projects I have in mind are several of the ones listed here or in the photograph below – works that are not very well-known even in France – and some of the archival traces surrounding them.

Most of the talk draws on the manuscript of Foucault: The Birth of Power, though a few bits are taken from Foucault’s Last Decade.