On the 'reflexivity of forms of experience' (Foucault)

In this year commemorating his death, how does Michel Foucault still speak to us? Besides the theoretical engagement of his enduring research – inviting us to think with and not simply about his work – there also is the legacy of his radio broadcasts, in which he quite literally speaks to us. This presentation will offer a dialogue with the absent presence of Foucault – with his evocation of the body in both the mirror image and the voice, exploring his essay on “the utopian body” (Le corps, lien d’utopies) and the discussion in his late seminars on “the structures of reflexivity”, as juxtaposed in a short film with photographs of African sculpture from an exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly.