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Foucault. Die Materialität der Arbeit

Author(s): Defert, DanielBrossat, AlainChevallier, PhilippMuhle, Maria

Abstract

In this conversation with Daniel Defert, conducted by Alain Brossat and Philippe Chevallie in Paris at the end of 2015, the philosopher and activist, who was Michel Foucault's partner until his death, discusses the «materiality» of Foucault's work, his habits, rituals, and discipline. In the process, the mediality of philosophical mental work comes to the foreground, as work which does not happen in an airtight space but is guided by archives and libraries, as well as by writing tools and the means of communication in and through which it unfolds. The richness and apparent heterogeneity of Foucault's thought and media – books, interviews, lectures, appeals, discussion, etc. – are for Defert an expression of a thinking that develops itself by shifting and recycling materials that have already been processed in different ways. The conversation thus opens a specific perspective towards the current historicization of Foucault's thought, which here is not solidified as a metaphysical system that seeks to unveil a new truth, but instead appears as a thinking movement, displacement, appropriation, and «creative reuse.»

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Defert, Daniel; Brossat, Alain; Chevallier, Philipp; Muhle, Maria: Foucault. Die Materialität der Arbeit. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 8 (2016), Nr. 2, S. 124-141. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1916.
@ARTICLE{Defert2016,
 author = {Defert, Daniel and Brossat, Alain and Chevallier, Philipp and Muhle, Maria},
 title = {Foucault. Die Materialität der Arbeit},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1916},
 volume = 8,
 address = {Zürich},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {124--141},
}
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