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Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUQ6JpKXgE&feature=youtu.be Michel Foucault: The Late Lectures Columbia Maison Française November 7, 2014, a panel discussion with Seyla Benhabib, François Ewald, Bernard E. Harcourt, George Kateb, and Emmanuelle Saada. In his late Collège de France lectures,…

The Foucault and neoliberalism debate dominated this week – with my response the most popular post on this site in some time. Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Stuart Elden on … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Postmodern Velázquez, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s  essay on Velázquez’s  baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,”  he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that…

Two new reviews at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014,…

Jussi Parikka’s The Anthrobscene; a collection of contemporary reviews and discussions of the second and third volumes of Foucault’s History of Sexuality; Michael Marder’s Pyropolitics and Jérôme Chenal’s The West African City.

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here. I had been rounding up a post on this but never got around to it, and Stuart makes excellent and helpful points (with the modesty to suggest his views are…

It doesn’t exercise self-restraint … a lot of people are surprised they went for the whole enchilada. – Michael Byers The media reactions to Denmark’s Arctic seabed filing with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf have been…