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.

biografia

Dr. Mischa Twitchin is a senior lecturer in the Theatre and Performance Dept., at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has contributed chapters to several collected volumes, as well as articles in journals such as Memory Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Performance Research (an issue of which, On Animism, 24.6, he also co-edited). His book, The Theatre of Death – the Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg and an Iconology of the Actor, is published by Palgrave Macmillan; and his edited volume, Wittgenstein and Performance, by Rowman and Littlefield.

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