Category Archives: People

History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading

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Heidegger and the Global Age – conference at Sussex, 29-30 Oct 2015

Heidegger and the Global Age, 29-30 October 2015 at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK Full details on their website – keynotes include Joanna Hodge, Laurence Hemming, Fred Dallmayr and Peg Birmingham.

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Théories et Institutions Penales – Foucault’s 1971-72 course available to pre-order on Amazon.fr

Foucault’s 1971-72 lecture course, Théories et Institutions Pénales – the last to be published – is available to pre-order on Amazon.fr. Seuil does not have it listed on their site yet. It is again edited by Bernard Harcourt – who did the … Continue reading

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Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence – Warwick, 17 March 2015

Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence 18th March 2015, 1pm to 7pm University of Warwick (A0.28, Millburn House) Frantz Fanon, the son of Martinique who first fought for colonial France in World War Two and then against … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20

Since I arrived in Melbourne I’ve been working on the complete manuscript of the Foucault book, and I’ve made use of the libraries of Monash University, State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne. One thing that the University of … Continue reading

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Foucault, “The Politics of [Soviet] Crime” – a request for help from Italian readers

[update: I have a copy of the Italian text, but have also now found the full and unpublished French original transcript at IMEC. I don’t need the text mentioned below any longer, but have kept the post up as the … Continue reading

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading

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Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de literature forthcoming in English

Foucault’s La grande étrangère: À propos de literature is forthcoming in English translation with University of Minnesota Press as Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, scheduled for May 2015. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches … Continue reading

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Foucault in Tunisia – three hard-to-find lectures from Cahiers de Tunisie

Thanks to the archival work of Natalie (@160B), here are three lectures Foucault gave in Tunisia. The Manet one was later published in a more polished form in La peinture de Manet which was then translated into English as Manet and … Continue reading

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