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Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert – video recording

“Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert” – video recording available here.

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Jakob von Uexküll: A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans was recently published in a new edition. This is a text that Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari and Agamben have all discussed. The Monoskop site has gathered a number of … Continue reading

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The English language sources of Foucault’s L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi

Last year a little book of Foucault’s lectures at Dartmouth College in 1980 was published in French – L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Paris: Vrin, 2013. [Update: A … Continue reading

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A few translated excerpts from the discussion following Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures in Rio

Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974 as “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” (easily available online), … Continue reading

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The remaining Foucault lecture courses – French and English publishing details

Update 8 July 2014: Subjectivité et vérité and Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling have now been published; Théories et institutions pénales is forthcoming in 2015.   Only two of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses remain unpublished in French – Théories et institutions pénales (1971-72) and Subjectivité et vérité (1980-81). As … Continue reading

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Anthropologie du conscrit français – a text mentioned by Foucault in 1974

In an addendum to a piece on this site about Foucault’s seminar colleague Jean-Pierre Peter, I made the following note: Update: the only other place I know where Foucault mentions Peter is in “The Birth of Social Medicine” – the … Continue reading

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The original source for Foucault’s Pierre Rivière collaborative project

I’ve long known that Foucault and his colleagues discovered the case of Pierre Rivière in Annales d’hygiène publique et de médecine légale, during the seminar of his first year of his work at the Collège de France. This particular case so fascinated … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault and Fons Elders – a preparatory interview for the Chomsky debate

I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this … Continue reading

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Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies – a collection edited by Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais (via here). Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization; his theories offer reflections still valid for … Continue reading

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Garcia, Johnston, Bryant – Speculative Realism book introductions online

Edinburgh University Press has posted the introductions to three books in the Speculative Realism series edited by Graham Harman: Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object (here), Adrian Johnston’s Adventures in Transcendental Materialism (here), and Levi Bryant’s Onto-Cartography (here). Thanks to New APPS and Levi’s Larval Subjects blog … Continue reading

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