Foucault at Berkeley’s History Department in 1983

A transcription of Foucault’s replies to questions from the audience at Berkeley’s History Department in 1983 can be found on the Variazione foucaultiane site. The transcription is by Arianna Bove and there are links to the audio on Stuart Elden’s Progressive Geographies blog.

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The Same and the Other: 50 years of History of Madness (1961-2011)

The Same and the Other: 50 years of History of Madness (1961-2011) VII International Michel Foucault Colloquy (at PUC-SP) O Mesmo e o Outro. 50 anos de História da Loucura (1961-2011). 24 a 27 de outubro de 2011. Monday October 24th – Thursday October 27th Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Sao Paulo, Brazil. There will be an [...]

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Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Stephen Shapiro (2011)

Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Professor Stephen Shapiro, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Link to details and podcast English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a series looking at the key thinkers for the social sciences. Summary [...]

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Foucault’s Room (2011)

Steven James Scott, Foucault’s Room A short film posted on Vimeo Based on Michel Foucault’s stay in Warsaw in the late 50s, Foucault’s Room is a visual exploration of the post-war architecture of Warsaw over a text riddled with innuendos about erotic encounters under close scrutiny by the Communist authorities.

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Audio files of lectures by Foucault

You can find audio files of some of Foucault’s lectures posted on UbuWeb. See Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies for some corrections on the details listed on Ubuweb Truth & Subjectivity: Howison Lectures, UC Berkeley (1980, English) 4 lectures The Culture Of The Self, Berkley Lectures (1983) 3 Lectures These lectures by Foucault held at [...]

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Le nouveau contrôle social (colloque) Foucault 1979

The film which runs for (1 hour and 22 minutes) of this conference which includes Foucault can be found on the University of Paris 8 Archives site. It is an interesting social document reflecting the somewhat anarchic atmosphere of the University at Vincennes in 1979. Colloque « Le nouvel ordre intérieur » Partie 3 : [...]

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Foucault, une pensée du discontinu – Revel (2010)

Judith Revel, Foucault, une pensée du discontinu, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2010. For a discussion with Judith Revel listen to this podcast from France Culture Description La pensée de Michel Foucault désoriente : considérée parfois comme celle d’un philosophe, parfois encore comme celle d’un historien ou d’un critique de la culture, elle ne cesse [...]

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Foucault va au cinéma (2011)

Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 There is also a workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book in Nice. See also this press release You can can also listen to a program (podcast) with the [...]

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Ce qu’aimer veut dire – Lindon (2011)

Matthieu Lindon Ce qu’aimer veut dire. Paris: P.O.L., 2011. From a review by Sabine Audrerie at La Croix L’écrivain et journaliste Mathieu Lindon fait le très beau récit de son amitié avec Michel Foucault et de ses liens avec son père, Jérôme, fondateur des Éditions de Minuit Il l’appellera Michel, tout au long de cette [...]

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Michel Foucault à l’Université Catholique de Louvain en 1981

I have just come across this video of an interview with Foucault. I am fairly certain it is the original of an interview titled ‘What our present is’ published in Foucault Live (Interviews, 1966-84). ed. Sylvere Lotringer. New York: Semiotext(e), 2nd ed. 1996, pp. 407-15

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