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Quote for June 2012

I shall sum up [...] the critical operations which I have undertaken [To question] these three themes of the origin, the subject and the implicit meaning, is to undertake - a difficult task, very strong resistance indeed proves it - to liberate the discursive field from the historico-transcendental structure which the philosophy of the 19th century has imposed on it [...]
There where one used to tell the history of tradition and of invention, of the old and the new, of the dead and the living, of the closed and the open, of the static and the dynamic, I have undertaken to tell the history of perpetual difference; more precisely to recount the history of ideas as the sum of the specified and descriptive forms of non-identity.

Michel Foucault, (1996) [1968]. "History, discourse and discontinuity" S. Lotringer, ed., Foucault live (interviews, 1961-1984) (New York: Semiotext(e), 1996), Translated by Anthony Nazarro, pp. 41-2. Translation modified.

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Wanted: audiotapes of Foucault's 1973 lectures

Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official French editions of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, are looking for copies of audio tape recordings of Foucault's lecture series on La société punitive at the Collège de France in Winter and Spring 1973.

These lectures were delivered from January to March 1973. If you have any tapes of these lectures or any information leading to the discovery of such tapes, please contact Caroline Pichon at caroline.pichon@seuil.com , tel: +33 1 41 48 83 43.