Below is the schedule for the Foucault readings that we did between December 2025 and April 2026.Â
You can find all readings in the Google Drive folder linked below.
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Two interviews from Foucault Live: Collected Interviews 1961-1984:
"An Ethics of Pleasure" (p. 371)
"Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity" (p. 382)
Gilles Deleuze, "Desire and Pleasure" (p. 223), in the book Between Deleuze and Foucault
Mathias Schönher, "Deleuze, a Split with Foucault"
From the book Between Deleuze and Foucault:
Ch. 16. Daniel Smith, "Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and Deleuze"
Optional (for an alternative view of the Foucault-Deleuze exchange):Â
Ch. 14. Morar and Gracieuse, "Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem"
Three more interviews from Foucault Live: Collected Interviews 1961-1984:
"Friendship as a Way of Life" (p. 308)
"The Ethics of the Concern for Self" (p. 432)
"An Aesthetics of Existence" (p. 450)
From Foucault Live: Collected Interviews 1961-1984:
"Intellectuals and Power" (p. 74)
Revisit "The Ethics of the Concern for Self" (p. 432) on the ethical role of the philosopher
Two optional secondary texts on the role of philosophy from the book Between Deleuze and Foucault:
Leonard Lawlor and Janae Sholtz, "Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger)" (p. 139)
Colin Koopman, "Critical Problematization in Foucault and Deleuze: The Force of Critique without Judgment" (p. 87)
Find all readings in this Google Folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VPRdvZYmUKBY3cSxD8xC8sTYtSEKBXDs?usp=sharing
Connect to the meeting at this Google Meet link on Saturdays @ 1 pm EST: