Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Update on the Foucault/13 Years at the Collège de France at Columbia University – places closed; live streaming details

via Foucault News Update on the 13/13 series of seminars from the website The first seminar will take place  on September 14, 2015. Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an … Continue reading

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Foucault on Prisons (and Elden on Schmitt) in Radical Philosophy open access to link to Nottingham conference

From the good people at Radical Philosophy, in relation to tomorrow’s conference: A free two-day conference, ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On,’ begins tomorrow at Nottingham Trent University, rethinking the legacy of Foucault’s text today and RP contributor … Continue reading

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Preparing for the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On’ conference

Tomorrow I’ll be giving the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. My talk is entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry … Continue reading

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Boris Porchnev/Porshnev on feudalism – were any of his works translated from Russian?

I mentioned Boris Porchnev/Porshnev in a previous post today, looking at the two editions of his work on peasant uprisings in seventeenth century France. Foucault uses his work in his reading of the Nu-Pieds revolts in Théories et institutions pénales. In Claude-Oliver … Continue reading

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Books received – Tawney, The ‘Katrina Effect’, La politique de l’espace parisien, Shakespeare

A couple of recent Penguin Shakespeare plays, the reissue of Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (in recompense for review work), The ‘Katrina Effect’ (from the publisher), a couple of journal issues, and a copy of La politique de l’espace parisien. The … Continue reading

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Boris Porshnev – the two editions of Les soulèvements populaires en France: a book by one of Foucault’s key sources in Théories et institutions pénales

Russian historian Boris Porshnev is one of Foucault’s key sources for the discussion of the Nu-Pieds revolts of 1639-40 in Théories et institutions pénales. Following my regular practice of reading Foucault’s sources as well as his own work using them, I bought a copy of … Continue reading

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‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-8 November 2015

I’ll be speaking about ‘Foucault, Porshnev and the Revolt of the Nu-pieds’, at the Historical Materialism conference, to be held in London between 5-8 November 2015. Here’s the abstract: In his recently published lecture course from 1971-72, Théories et institutions pénales, Michel … Continue reading

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Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique

This looks interesting. Thanks to Graham Burchell for the link: Philippe Sabot, Le Même et l’Ordre: Michel Foucault et le savoir à l’âge classique. Dans Les mots et les choses (1966), Michel Foucault accorde une place centrale à l’analyse de la disposition … Continue reading

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Foucault, Œuvres I, II – forthcoming in the Pléiade series with Gallimard

Foucault, Œuvres I, II – forthcoming in the Pléiade series with Gallimard. Now has a page on the Gallimard site, with publication scheduled for November. On earlier reports, see here.

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My sabbatical rules for writing

I’m hoping to complete the manuscript for Foucault: The Birth of Power over the next 12 months – a sabbatical year and summer. I’ll be based in London most of the time. I’m also hoping to make considerable progress on the … Continue reading

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