Poland and Foucault: A Mutual Reading

Michał Kozłowski is a philosopher, occasional sociologist, historian, and columnist. He is a professor at the University of Warsaw and former editor of the quarterly magazine Bez Dogmatu . He is currently working on the concept of political misogyny. He is the author or co-author of several books, including The Art Factory: The Division of Labor and the Distribution of Capital in the Polish Field of Visual Art (2013), and co-edited the volume Joy Forever: The Political Economy of Social Creativity (2014).

Chair: Patrick Boucheron, Collège de France

Patrick Boucheron is a historian specializing in medieval Italy, particularly urban and architectural history. He is a professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of the History of Power in Western Europe, 13th–16th Centuries. His work has focused in particular on the concepts of communal experimentation and political fictions, from a Foucauldian perspective. His books include The Power of Images, Siena 1338 (2018), Political Fictions: From the Middle Ages to the “Post-Truth” Present (2025), and The Black Death (2026).