Excerpts: 1975 interview on the role of prisons

In 1975 the New York Times translated an interview with Foucault “on the role of prisons” (originally carried out by Roger Pol-Doit in Le Monde). This constitutes DE 151.

This interview is available online as part of a special feature on Foucault that was originally put together by the NYT in 2000.

Full text: What are the Iranians Dreaming About?

Here is the full text of Foucault’s article “What are the Iranians Dreaming About?” (DE 245) from J. Afary and K. B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago, 2005), pp. 203-209. Translated by Karen de Bruin and Kevin B. Anderson.

Afary and Anderson on Iran

Readers of this blog may like to know that Afary and Anderson, who recently published Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (previously discussed here) have published a longish article in the Nation about their trip to Iran in 2005.

They get in a few digs at how popular their talks were (“A lecture on “Foucault and Feminism” at Alzahra Women’s University elicited enthusiastic responses, including one from a high university official clad from head to toe in a black chador”) but most of the article is a political analysis of Iran and review of some books about it.

High Court judge takes on Foucault

An Australian High Court judge recently gave a speech in which she took on and even endorsed some ideas from the work of Foucault.

Susan Crennan, a High Court justice in Australia, made the remarks during a recent presentation in Chicago.

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