Telos reaches back

But not that far back…
Each Tuesday in the TELOSscope blog, we reach back into the archives and highlight an article whose critical insights continue to illuminate our thinking and challenge our assumptions. Today, Marcus Michelson looks at Jean-Michel Landry’s ” Confession, Obedience, and Subjectivity: Michel Foucault’s Unpublished Lectures On the Government of the Living,” from [...]

Foucault’s birthday (belated)

We forgot to note Foucault’s birthday last week. He would have been 83 years old.
Update. More importantly, we missed Asterix and Obelix’s birthday! They were 50 years old, sort of.

Chronicle of Higher Ed: Heil Heidegger!

The Chronicle of Higher Education last week had a popular, even sensationalist story entitled Heil Heidegger! by a guy called Carlin Romano, whose main aim seems to be to make fun of Heidegger as a strategy of undermining his influence. A flavor:
How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), [...]

Didier Eribon new book Retour à Reims

One of Foucault’s biographers and friends, Didier Eribon, has a new book out, an autobiography. Sounds interesting as described here. Since I spent 3 weeks near Reims this summer it’s fascinating to see that that is where Eribon’s family apparently comes from (it’s in the champagne region of France):
Blessé, or wounded, is how Didier Eribon, [...]

A partial translation of Agamben on Foucault

Just found a partial online translation of Agamben’s Il Regno e La Gloria at least apparently as far as he discusses Foucault.

GLBT History Month 2009

October is GLBT History Month and Foucault has been chosen as an “icon” (what would he make of that–pride? modesty?).
Anyway they provide a short video, a bio, some recommended books about him (tho not Clare O’Farrell’s tut-tut, tho they do link to her website) and some downloads.