Danger, Crime and Rights: A 1983 Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon (open access)

Berkeley seminar group 2 (colour).jpgAlthough it was available online earlier this year, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” is formally published in Theory, Culture & Society , Vol 34 No 1, pp. 3-27. It is currently available open access. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon.

This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and is transcribed on the basis of a tape recording made at the time. Foucault and Simon begin with a discussion of Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’, and move to a discussion of notions of danger, psychiatric expertise in the prosecution cases, crime, responsibility and rights in the US and French legal systems. The transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction and a retrospective comment by Simon.

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Network of Concerned Geographers – petition to the Association of American Geographers

Please consider joining many Geographers and signing the following petition to the Association of American Geographers. It calls for the AAG to study and take action on the growing entanglements between the US military and the discipline of geography. We would like to have 500+ signatures by mid-January.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/network-of-concerned-geographers

The NCG is coordinated through the Action Network, a not-for-profit progressive platform that does not steal and sell your data.

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Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – reading guide updated

9780745699875Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – my reading guide has been updated, with links to recent translations and the forthcoming The Aesthetic Imperative: Writings on Art.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Lefebvre, Tel Quel, Sloterdijk, Lacan

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The new Lefebvre translation Marxist Thought and the City, Sloterdijk’s Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger, the Arden third series edition of The Comedy of Errors, Lacan’s second seminar, and a copy of the Tel Quel collection Théorie d’ensemble.

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Letzlove-Portrait(s) Foucault – a play on the Foucault/Voetzel encounter

Thanks to Felix de Montety for the link to this – Letzlove-Portrait(s) Foucault. This is a play based on the Foucault/Voetzel encounter, which led to the book Vingt ans et après.

Été 1975. Un jeune homme fait du stop sur l’autoroute en direction de Caen. Le conducteur qui s’arrête a un look inhabituel : un homme chauve, avec des lunettes cerclées d’acier, un polo ras du cou et une curiosité constante pour son jeune passager. Ils échangent leurs coordonnées avant de se dire au revoir… Trois ans plus tard paraîtra un livre d’entretiens entre cet inconnu de vingt ans, Thierry Voeltzel, et ce célèbre philosophe, Michel Foucault, qui avait alors tenu à garder l’anonymat. Au cours de la conversation qui se noue entre eux, sont abordées les mutations existentielles de la jeunesse dans son rapport avec la sexualité, les drogues, la famille, le travail, la religion, la musique, les lectures…et la révolution. Quarante ans après, l’intérêt de ce document réside autant dans les expériences vécues de Thierry que dans le portrait en creux de son interviewer.

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Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations blog guide

Derek Gregory’s ever-interesting Geographical Imaginations blog now has a guide to past posts, grouped by theme.

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I’ve been pleased to see how often old posts are consulted by readers: I never intended this to be a fleet of ships passing in the digital night.

But as the blog has grown, I realise it’s become increasingly difficult to navigate through the different themes and so I’ve added a GUIDE to the tabs at the head of the page.

This lists some of the key posts which will, I hope, supplement a judicious use of the search box (and the word clouds to the right) plus the publications available under the DOWNLOADS tabs.

It’s still under construction, but let me know if you think I’ve missed anything important.

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Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning video (keynote and discussion)

Judith Butler – Borders and the Politics of Mourning

Panel discussion with Maurizio Albahari, Alexandra Délano, Jenny Edkins, Burkhard Liebsch, and Benjamin Nienass, followed by comments from Banu Bargu and Anne McNevin.

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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 6: Bad Infinity and the Madness of Economic Reason

David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 6: Bad Infinity and the Madness of Economic Reason

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – reading guide updated

imageI’ve updated my reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?’ – with a link to the new translation of Marxist Thought and the City and the forthcoming paperback edition of Sue Middleton’s book.

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David Harvey asks What is the cry of the streets?

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“The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.”

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