Michel Feher
Belgian philosopher
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Michel Feher (born 1956) is a Belgian philosopher and cultural theorist who writes in English and French. As the name indicates, he is of hungarian ancestry. He is the founding editor of Zone Books[1] and the co-founder and president of Cette France-là, Paris, a monitoring group on French immigration policy.[2] Feher writes for a number of outlets and has a semi-regular blog with the French journal Mediapart.[3] He has held the positions of Professor and Visiting Lecturer at various universities, including École Normale Supérieure in Paris,[4] the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently, Goldsmiths, University of London.[5]
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Feher has been called "one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today."[6]
Together with Wendy Brown, Michel Feher is co-editor of Zone Books' series Near Futures.[7] In 2016, Feher co-edited "Europe at a Crossroads" with William Callison, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels, the first issue of Near Futures Online, the digital companion to Zone's Near Futures series.[8]
Works
Books and edited volumes in English
- Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, 2018).
- (ed. with William Callison, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels) Europe at a Crossroads, Near Futures Online, Issue No. 1 (March 2016).
- (ed. with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee) Nongovernmental Politics, MIT Press, 2007.
- (ed. with Paul Rabinow) The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984. Vol 2. Aesthetics: Method and Epistemology, 2000.
- Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community, 2000.
- (ed.) The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France, 1997.
- (ed. with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi) Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 3 Volumes, 1989. (Spanish translation: Fragmentos para una historia del cuerpo humano, 1990.)
- (ed. with Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter) Zone 1-2: The Contemporary Cities, 1986.
Articles in English
- "Disposing of the Discredited: A European Project" in Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture, William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, eds. (Fordham University Press, 2020).
- "Movements of Counter-Speculation: A Conversation with Michel Feher," Interview by William Callison, Los Angeles Review of Books (July 12, 2019).
- "The Political Ascendency of Creditworthiness," Public Books, 1.9.2019.
- (with Eyal Weizman, Yve-Alain Bois, and Hal Foster), "On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman," October, Volume | (Spring 2016) p. 116-140.
- "Belonging and Neoliberalism: Michel Feher, in conversation with James Graham" in After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2016), 313-320.
- The Critical State of the Union, in 'Europe at a Crossroads', Near Futures Online, Issue No. 1 (March 2016).
- "Europe and the spectre of democracy: Michel Feher interviews Yanis Varoufakis," Open Democracy (13 May 2016).
- Brave New World Redux, Max de Estaban (2015).
- Self-Appreciation; or, The Aspirations of Human Capital, Public Culture, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2009).
- The Saudi Mirror, Public Culture, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2006).
- Constancy in Context, Wisconsin International Law Journal, Volume 24, Issue 3 (2006).
- Empowerment Hazards: Affirmative Action, Recovery Psychology, and Identity Politics, Representations, Vol. 55 Summer (1996).
Books and edited volumes in French
- Le temps des investis: essai sur la nouvelle question sociale, Paris, La Découverte, 2017.
- Éric Alliez, Michel Feher, Didier Gille, Isabelle Stengers, Contre-temps: Les pouvoirs de l'argent, Editions Michel de Maule (2015/1988). (ISBN 2876230283 et 978-2876230286).
- (with Cette-France-là) Xénophobie d'en haut: le choix d'une droite éhontée. Paris, La Découverte, 2012. (ISBN 9782707173317).
- (with Cette-France-là) Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits. Paris, La Découverte, 2012. (ISBN 9782707173300).
- Conjurations de la violence: introduction à la lecture de Georges Bataille, Presses universitaires de France (PUF) 1981. (ISBN 2130366996).
Articles in French
- « La lutte sociale se joue désormais sur les marchés financiers : Entretien avec Michel Feher », Alternatives Economiques (15/05/2018).
- « Quand le capitalisme change de direction », AOC, 01.06.18.
- « Pourquoi et comment faire des marchés financiers le nouveau foyer des luttes sociales », Ivan du Roy avec Michel Feher, Basta, 20 Octobre 2017.
- « Don, échange, partage : esquisse et croisement de deux projets », Mouvements, des idées et des luttes (26 mai 2015).
- « Que deviennent les arts d'aimer avec le néolibéralisme? Entretien avec Michel Feher », recueillis par Catherine Achin et Olivier Roueff, Mouvements, 2015 Issue 2, number 82, 148-158.
- « Le Proche-Orient hors les murs. Usages français du conflit israélo-palesinien «, De la question sociale à la question raciale ? Représenter la société française. Didier Fassin et Eric Fassin, La Découverte, 2006.
- « Politique non gouvernementale », Vacarme, n° 34, janvier 2006. Collectif dirigé par Michel Feher.
- « Violences dans et hors l'école, quelles responsabilités ? » de Michel Feher, Roger Dadoun, Bruno Mattéi, et Dominique Gelin. Sciences de l'homme et Sociétés, N° 70, Septembre 2004: Cultures en mouvement, Revue Cultures. (ISBN 2752000669)