Progressive Geographies

Government, Truth, Subject – Michel Foucault and the late lecture courses at Collège de France. A colloquium at the Jan van Eyck Academie.

The colloquium is devoted to Foucault’s late lectures at Collège de France (Du gouvernement des vivants [unpublished], Subjectivité et vérité [unpublished], L’Herméneutique du sujet, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, and Le courage de la vérité). In this particular body of works Foucault undertakes a genealogy of the subject: a subject capable of its own constititution through what Foucault defines as the care of the self and on the notion of parresia, a certain mode of truth-telling of the Greek Antiquity. But what then is the relation to the previous work, where the subject seemed rather like an effect of relations of power and knowlede? These lecture courses will be examined in terms of their form, methodology, their internal constitution as well as their shifts and consistencies with Foucault’s previous works.

 

The event will be open to the public.

 

14.00 Introduction
14.15 Arianna Bove: Change
15.00 Alexandre Costanzo: The Grimaces of Truth
15.45 Break
16.00 Karl Lydén: The Blind Empiricist
16.45 Discussion moderated by Jamila Mascat

 

 

Arianna Bove is a co-founder and editor of Generation-Online, as well as the English translator of books by Antonio Negri, Franco Berardi, and Maurizio Lazzarato.

 

Alexandre Costanzo is a philosopher living in Paris, where he teaches at l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Annecy. He is completing his PhD under the direction of Alain Badiou, and has published a number of essays on the relations between philosophy, art, and politics.

 

Karl Lydén is an editor of Site Magazine, and the Swedish translator of Michel Foucault’s Il faut défendre la société (2008) as well as the upcoming Le gouvernement de soi et des autres (2013). He is a researcher at the theory department of the Jan van Eyck Academie.

 

Jamila Mascat is a teaching assistant of the chair of Practical philosophy at the university La Sapienza (Rome). She has published the book Hegel a Jena. La critica dell’astrazione (2011), and her current work focuses on the semantics of space within the context of French post-structuralism. She is a reserchear at the theory department of the Jan van Eyck Academie.

Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
Netherlands