Category Archives: Michel Foucault

‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – Berkeley audio

The audio recording of my Berkeley talk is now available. Many thanks to Ilaria Giglioli for making the recording. “How should we do the history of territory”, University of California, Berkeley, 14 September 2011.

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Foucault sculpture in a nursing home

Okay, this is odd. A Dutch nursing home, built in the form of a panopticon, has a sculpture of Foucault’s head and one forearm in the foyer. Brief video clip below, and story here. Thanks to Mark Kelly for the … Continue reading

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Details of Berkeley and Tucson lectures

14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA (details) 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of … Continue reading

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Sensualising Deformity – Call for papers

This could be interesting. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, at the University of Edinburgh, June 15-16 2012. The link takes you to the call for papers, and they have a linked blog. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is one of … Continue reading

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Radical Foucault

The conference was very good, and my lecture seemed to be well received. There were a lot of questions and good discussion afterwards, which I always take to be a good sign. Lots of interest in the course I was … Continue reading

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Foucault and the Twin Towers

Over at his Open Geography blog, Jeremy Crampton offers some thoughts on the cover of our Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography edited book. He also links to a very interesting New York Times photo gallery on the towers, … Continue reading

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Foucault, Fossils and Leibniz

Three good days in the British Library rare books room. First up was Daniel Defert, Philippe Artières, Laurent Quéro and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, Le groupe d’information sur les prisons: Archives d’une lutte, 1970-1972, so that I can offer some thoughts on … Continue reading

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Lectures on Foucault

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading

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Foucault on Politics, Security and War short review

Foucault on Politics, Security and War came out in paperback earlier this year. There is a brief review at the LSE ‘Politics and Policy’ blog. I have a piece in this collection that I think is one of my best pieces on … Continue reading

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Foucault audio

A collection of audio recordings of Foucault – in both English and French – can be found here (via Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog). Some of these have been available before, and some of the dates are wrong. The last ’11 … Continue reading

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