Foucault’s Greeks as Savages? A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Aesthetics of Existence
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With Camilo Rios & Carlos A. Segovia
* May 16, 23, 30 + June 6, 13, 20, 2026
* 10:00–12:00 Eastern US Time Zone
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Following his more institutional analyses of power networks, developed primarily during the second half of the 1970s, it is possible to identify what appears to be a break—or at least a watershed—in Michel Foucault’s research trajectory. Up to that point, Discipline and Punish (1975) and The Will to Knowledge (1976) continued to orient genealogical investigations into the more or less contemporary configuration of modern societies. To this body of work must be added the Collège-de-France lectures that Foucault himself chose to publish under the title History of Governmentality (Society Must Be Defended, 1976; Security,Territory, Population, 1977; and The Birth of Biopolitics, 1978). Coincidentally—or perhaps not—1979 marked a pause, an inflection point. The last five Collège-de-France courses (On the Government of the Living, 1980; Subjectivity and Truth, 1981; The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 1982; The Government of Self and Others, 1983; and The Courage of Truth, 1984), together with the profound reconfiguration of the History of Sexuality project—from six planned volumes to four—bear witness to this shift... Our aim, then, is not to determine how Greek the so-called “savages” were, nor—much less—how savage the Greeks were, but rather to recognize, in both streams, concerns of a similar nature oriented by analogous interests that may provide us a number of theoretical and practical tools to transform our lives against the current.
READ MORE: https://inciteseminars.com/foucaults-greek-as-savages
With Camilo Rios & Carlos A. Segovia
* May 16, 23, 30 + June 6, 13, 20, 2026
* 10:00–12:00 Eastern US Time Zone
* A Zoom link will be provided on registration.
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Following his more institutional analyses of power networks, developed primarily during the second half of the 1970s, it is possible to identify what appears to be a break—or at least a watershed—in Michel Foucault’s research trajectory. Up to that point, Discipline and Punish (1975) and The Will to Knowledge (1976) continued to orient genealogical investigations into the more or less contemporary configuration of modern societies. To this body of work must be added the Collège-de-France lectures that Foucault himself chose to publish under the title History of Governmentality (Society Must Be Defended, 1976; Security,Territory, Population, 1977; and The Birth of Biopolitics, 1978). Coincidentally—or perhaps not—1979 marked a pause, an inflection point. The last five Collège-de-France courses (On the Government of the Living, 1980; Subjectivity and Truth, 1981; The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 1982; The Government of Self and Others, 1983; and The Courage of Truth, 1984), together with the profound reconfiguration of the History of Sexuality project—from six planned volumes to four—bear witness to this shift... Our aim, then, is not to determine how Greek the so-called “savages” were, nor—much less—how savage the Greeks were, but rather to recognize, in both streams, concerns of a similar nature oriented by analogous interests that may provide us a number of theoretical and practical tools to transform our lives against the current.
READ MORE: https://inciteseminars.com/foucaults-greek-as-savages
| May 16, 2026 | |
| June 13, 2026 |
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