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[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]

Michel Feher interviewed by Ràdio Web MACBA.

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]


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Books and edited volumes in English edit

  • 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 Nadaff and Nadia Tazi) Fragments for a History of the Human Body, 3 Volumes, 1989.
  • (ed. with Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter) Zone 1-2: The Contemporary Cities, 1986.

Articles in English edit

Books and edited volumes in French edit

  • 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 edit

References edit

  1. ^ Friday Salon: Activism on the Map: The Zone Books Series on Non-Governmental Politics, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 19 April 2013.
  2. ^ About Near Futures Online Issue No. 1 (March 2016), Europe at a Crossroads, June 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Blog de Michel Feher, Mediapart. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  4. ^ "Michel Feher". Oslo arkitekturtriennale. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  5. ^ "Michel Feher". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  6. ^ "Michel Feher on Right Wing Populism in the Age of Asset Appreciation". Progress in Political Economy (PPE). 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  7. ^ "Near Futures, Series Announcement from Zone Books" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 3, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017. "Near Futures, publications from Zone Books and MIT Press". Archived from the original on July 15, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  8. ^ About Near Futures Online Issue No. 1 (March 2016), Europe at a Crossroads, June 6, 2017. "PDF of Near Futures Online, TOC and Links - Academia". Retrieved June 8, 2017.

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