Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know reviewed in The New Inquiry

Christopher Chitty reviews Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know in The New Inquiry. Thanks to John Protevi for the link.

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Cambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries … Continue reading

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Koopman, Genealogy as Critique reviewed at NDPR

Colin Koopman’s important book on Foucault, Genealogy as Critique, is reviewed at NDPR.

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Books received

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Resources page

While the Free Downloads page is the place to go for online content by me (articles, interviews, audio, video and reading lists), there is also a Resources page with links to the Boko Haram bibliography, translations of short texts by Foucault … Continue reading

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Books received

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, but also Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report and the new issue of Geographica Helvetica (which included my piece ‘Leibniz and Geography‘.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading

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Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature

Does anyone have access to Acta: Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature, a publication that on pages 22 and 23 summarises a 1972 lecture by Foucault entitled “Ceremony, Theatre, and Politics in the 17th Century”? Worldcat suggests … Continue reading

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Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France – a Foucault query

In Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronologie’/’Chronology’ in Dits et écrits/A Companion to Foucault, he makes reference to a publication entitled Annuaire du Centre coordinateur de la recherche urbaine pour la France. This is in the entry for October 1973  (p. 44/55), and Defert suggests … Continue reading

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Foucault audio files

There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the … Continue reading

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