Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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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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[update: I have a copy of the Italian text, but have also now found the full and unpublished French original transcript at IMEC.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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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish – a bit more information

A little more on Deleuze on Foucault in Spanish: There is a different translation of three lectures – 17 Dec 85; 7, 14 Jan 1986 in Michel Foucault y el poder. This therefore overlaps with the two volumes previously mentioned:- El saber … Continue reading

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault in Spanish too

As well as the Italian, thanks to readers on Twitter and Facebook for alerting me to Spanish versions of these lectures – a second volume, on Power, has been published as well as the first on Knowledge. Update: A third … Continue reading

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Deleuze’s courses on Foucault – first available in Italian; any other languages forthcoming?

While looking for something else, I found that the first of Deleuze’s courses on Foucault has been published in Italian. Are any other languages forthcoming? I can’t find a French version, though of course the recordings of the lectures are … Continue reading

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