Michel Feher (born 1956) is a Belgian philosopher and cultural theorist who writes in English and French. He is the founding editor of

Zone Books Sanford Kwinter is a Canadian-born, New York-based writer and architectural theorist, and a co-founder of Zone Books publishers. Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Pratt Institute. He formerly served as an associ ...

and the co-founder and president of Cette France-là, Paris, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. Feher writes for a number of outlets and has a semi-regular blog with the French journal

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. He has held the positions of Professor and Visiting Lecturer at various universities, including École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and most recently,

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. Feher has been called "one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today." Together with Wendy Brown, Michel Feher is co-editor of

' series Near Futures. 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.About Near Futures Online Issue No. 1 (March 2016)
Europe at a Crossroads, June 6, 2017.

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 Paul M. Rabinow (June 21, 1944 – April 6, 2021) was professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices f ...

) ''The Essential Works of

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

, 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 Nadaff and Nadia Tazi) ''Fragments for a History of the Human Body'', 3 Volumes, 1989. * (ed. with

Jonathan Crary Jonathan Crary is an art critic and essayist, and is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His first notable works were ''Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century'' (1990), and ...

and

Sanford Kwinter Sanford Kwinter is a Canadian-born, New York-based writer and architectural theorist, and a co-founder of Zone Books publishers. Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Pratt Institute. He formerly served as an associ ...

) ''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 ''Public Culture'' is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September—by Duke University Press. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Commu ...

'', 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). ( et 978-2876230286). * (with Cette-France-là) ''Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée.'' Paris, La Découverte, 2012. (). *(with Cette-France-là) ''Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits.'' Paris, La Découverte, 2012. (). *''Conjurations de la violence: introduction à la lecture de

Georges Bataille Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; ; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, ...

'', Presses universitaires de France (PUF) 1981. ().

Articles in French

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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. ()

References

External links

Michel Feher's blog
(

, in French) *Michel Fehe
en France Culture (2006-2017)La suite dans les idées
Cette France-là, celle du Ministère de l'Immigration et de l'Identité nationale. Michel Feher, philosophe, 19 décembre 2009.
SICK 80s. The AIDS Crisis, Art and Counter-biopolitical Guerrilla
Conférence de Michel Feher
MACBA
Barcelona, 2010.
Podcast interview for France Culture:
Michel Feher, du collectif Cette France-là, Xenophobie d’en haut et Sans papiers et préfets (07/04/2012)
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Television interview on Xerfi Canal
Michel Feher speaking about "Le temps des investis" (15/03/2019)
Inverview and photos with Feher in Catalan

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