Progressive Geographies

The aim of my series of posts on the so-called “Foucault/Habermas Debate” has been to move the focus away from the discussion of the differences in their general approaches and return it to the more modest concerns that lay at its origin: the idea of a meeting between Foucault, Habermas, and a few others to discuss Immanuel Kant’s response to the question “What is Enlightenment?” on the bicentennial of its publication. What interests me is just what it was that Foucault and Habermas found interesting in Kant’s little essay and what this might tell us about their relationship to that thing that we have come to designate as “the Enlightenment” — a term whose various implications have, and will remain, the main concern of this blog. So, having spent previous posts probing the various ambiguities associated with “The Debate that Never Was,” I want to focus this discussion on how…

10 mars 1975

Jacques CHANCEL s’entretient avec le philosophe, professeur au Collège de France, Michel FOUCAULT.
Emission diffusée le 10 mars 1975 sur France Inter.

[Editor: Update 14 March 2026. No longer available online. You may be able to find a transcription in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024]

– Générique début

– A 00’57 : sur le savoir, a toujours été dans le savoir. Mai 1968 a été une révolte contre l’interdiction d’un certain savoir, Mai 68 a été une ouverture et invasion d’un nouveau type de savoir, ses diplômes, son enseignement au Collège de France. Le savoir doit être lié au plaisir, la pression des parents sur les enfants, l’importance relative des diplômes, l’impression qu’il veut offrir à son lecteur.

– A 18’57 : pourquoi il a écrit sur la folie, le savoir médical lié au pouvoir psychiatrique, le livre “Histoire de la folie”. La psychiatrie…

We’re delighted that Bruce Braun will be presenting the 2013 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture on Wednesday 28th August between 16:50 and 18:30 in the Ondaatje Theatre. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception between 18:45-20:00 in the Map Room. Our colleagues at Wiley will be filming the lecture and will make it available as a part of our Lecture Series videos.

Bruce is Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada’s West Coast (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and co-editor of Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (Routledge, 1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics (Blackwell, 2001) with Antipode‘s very own Noel Castree, and Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) with Sarah Whatmore. He is also one of the editors of the Annals of…

We are pleased to announce the theme for our 2014 symposium, “Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism.” Below you will find our CFP, which includes details regarding important dates and contact information.

2014 Symposium CFP – Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism

The Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life invites submissions for our annual symposium to be held March 07, 2014 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. This year’s theme is “Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism,” and our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking of the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College. Gieseking’s work examines the everyday co-productions of space and identity that support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in urban and digital environments, with a special focus on sexuality and gender.

While many critical interrogations of neoliberalism…