Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Last Decade – ninth update

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve worked through the first volume of the History of Sexuality, in both French and English. There are, to my mind, not nearly as many translational issues with this as with Surveiller et punir/Discipline … Continue reading

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Melbourne talks on The Birth of Territory and Foucault – final details

Final details for my four talks over the next two weeks in Melbourne: 26 February 2014, 12.30pm, “The Birth of Territory”, Monash University, Melbourne (Room N502, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus) – flyer, website 27 February 2014, 5pm, “The Birth of Territory”, RMIT University, Melbourne … Continue reading

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Roland Boer on Foucault’s Care

Roland Boer has a piece on Foucault’s late work on care at Political Theology Today.

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Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence reviewed at NDPR

Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence is reviewed at NDPR by Chloë Taylor.

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A question for German and Italian Foucault scholars

A question that I hope someone can help with. For the German and Italian translations of Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, Foucault wrote a new preface. This appears in Dits et écrits as text number 190, but as a retranslation into French … Continue reading

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Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives – translated into English

I’ve just discovered that Arlette Farge’s book Le Goût de l’archive was translated into English and was published last year as The Allure of the Archive. Farge worked with Foucault on the lettres de cachet collection Le désordre des families – also being translated … Continue reading

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Talks on Foucault’s La société punitive in Melbourne – 3 and 4 March 2014

In addition to the talks on The Birth of Territory (details here); I’ll be giving talks on Foucault’s La société punitive at Monash University on 3 March 2014, 11am (Clayfield Room A1. 34, Caufield Campus – map here); and at the University of Melbourne on … Continue reading

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Foucault’s back cover text for Surveiller et punir – scan, French, English translation

Jeremy Crampton recently provided an image of the original back cover for Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, including a text signed ‘M.F.’   The text has now been transcribed and translated by Philippe Theophanidis at his Aphelis blog. Incidentally, the Gallimard Tel edition I … Continue reading

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Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as…

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Foucault “Discourse and Truth. The Problematization of Parrhesia”

Originally posted on Open Geography:
      Does anyone know if Foucault’s 1983 lecture series “Discourse and Truth the Problematization of Parrhesia” has ever been put online in the above format? I don’t mean the audio lectures, the book…

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