Madness and Civilization Reading Group @ Bathers Library
In Madness and Civilization (1961), Michel Foucault traces how “madness” went from something medieval and Renaissance societies lived alongside to something confined, medicalized, and spoken of only through psychiatric discourse — a discourse that didn’t just describe unreason but produced the categories of rational subjecthood still used to decide who counts as free, competent, or dangerous. We’ll extend this history to how race, gender, and class shape today’s production and pathologization of socio-economic precarity in the US.
📅 January 12 – February 16 (6 weeks)
🕔 Wednesdays,
📍 In person: 2310 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA
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