New website: Heterotopian Studies (2012)

Peter Johnson has just launched a new site on Foucault’s notion of Heterotopia titled Heterotopian Studies. There is also a facebook page. The site includes definitions, resources, discussions and a blog. The author notes: This web site is devoted to Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia. Foucault outlines the notion of heterotopia on three occasions between [...]

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Foucault’s efficacy – debate (2011-12)

A debate against and for Foucault. Familiar charges of Foucault as an obscurantist, impractical intellectual are aired in the first post and the second is a defence of Foucault. Jerome Roos Foucault and the revolutionary self-castration of the Left, Roar Magazine Blog, Dec 2011. Far from posing a counter-hegemonic challenge to the dominant powers in [...]

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Foucault: Post/medieval Ascesis (2011)

Eileen Joy has posted a seminar syllabus and a link to a book chapter in progress on the In the Middle blog. I want to share with everyone here two recent fruits of these projects — a book chapter-in-progress and a seminar syllabus recently proposed, with Anna Klosowska, to the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance [...]

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Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, short reviews

Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Stuart Elden has offered some preliminary observations on this new French publication on his blog He has also published some comments by Colin Gordon on this volume as well on his blog

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The shaping of a New World Order (2011)

Mark LeVine, ‘The shaping of a New World Order’, Aljazeera website, 6 February, 2011 Tagline: If the revolutions of 2011 succeed, they will force the creation of a very different regional and world system. Extracts – see here for full article Many commentators are comparing Egypt to Iran of 32 years ago, mostly to warn [...]

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Foucault and the Language Scare (2010)

Hayden White, the eminent historian who was amongst the first serious commentators in English on Foucault remarks on his blog: A lot of people still seem to be disturbed by the idea that the language one uses to represent one’s thought or a world external to one’ self might have some effect on the content [...]

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Foucault lectures: The courage of truth

Stuart Elden has posted a quick summary and comments on the forthcoming translation of Foucault’s 1984 lectures The Courage of Truth on his Progressive Geographies blog.

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Eric Kluitenberg: Foucault and the Living Archive (2010)

This is a rather interesting interview with Eric Kluitenberg who applies Foucault’s work to the creation of online archives. You can find the full interview on the Institute of Network Cultures blog Extract from interview Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, [...]

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