Chronology
This is a work in progress or a ‘live’ document charting the significant dates – events, publications, etc – over a widened timeframe around the publication of Recherches 13 and the work of the CERFI ‘Genealogy’ group.
1953
Creation of Clinique La Borde
1955
Félix Guattari arrives at La Borde
1961 (April)
Publication of Michel Foucault, Folie et déraison; Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique
1962 (February)
Publication of Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche et la philosophie
1962 (August)
Approval of Fourth Plan (1962-1965)
1963
Jean-Claude Polack (UNEF Medicine) arrives at La Borde
1963 (April)
Publication of Michel Foucault, Naissance de la clinique
1964
Conference on Nietzsche at Royaumont (org. by Deleuze, Foucault presents the paper ‘Nietzsche, Marx, Freud’)
1964
François Fourquet meets Félix Guattari at a UEC congress.
1964
International Conference on Psychodrama, Paris – Guattari presents paper on ‘Transversality’
1964 (September)
Publication of abridged version of Histoire de la folie with 10/18
1965
Publication of Gilles Deleuze, Nietzche
1965
Michel Rostain (UNEF) arrives at La Borde
1965
Fernand Deligny arrives at La Borde
1965 (October)
Creation of FGERI
1965 (November)
Approval of 5th Plan (1966-1970)
1966
Creation of Ministère de l’Equipment
1966
Publication of Royaumont Nietzsche conference papers
1966 (February)
Issue 2 of Recherches (texts by Guattari, Fabre, Oury, Deligny)
1966 (April)
Issues 3-4 of Recherches (texts by Fernand Oury, Fernand Deligny, William Burchett (On Vietnam), Lacan, ‘Petit discours à l’ORTF)
1966 (April)
Publication of Michel Foucault, Les Mots et les choses
1966 (Autumn)
François Fourquet (Sciences Po) arrives at La Borde, as does François Pain
1967
Foucault and Deleuze co-author the preface to Vol. 5 of the Colli/Montinari edition, translated, of Nietzsche’s works.
1967
Issue 5 of Recherches (Interview with William Burchett, dossier on Latin America, dossiers on health, education, psychiatry (Basaglia))
1967 (May)
Publication of Tavistock translation of Histoire de la folie with preface by David Cooper
1967 (June)
Issue 6 of Recherches, special issue on Architecture, Programming, Psychiatry
1967
Georges Canguilhem, ‘Mort de l‘homme ou épuisement du cogito?’ in Critique, 242 (review of Les Mots et les choses)
1967 (Autumn)
Conference on Alienated Childhood; publication of Recherches 7: ‘L’enfance aliénée’
1967 (December)
Issue 8 of Recherches: Alienated Childhood 2 (Lacan, Mannoni, Cooper, Laing, Oury, Tosquelles)
1968
Publication of Gilles Deleuze, Différence et repetition
1968 (22 March)
Creation of Mouvement du 22 mars
1968 (3-13 May)
Demonstrations in Paris and occupation of Sorbonne
1968 (8 May)
The Mouvement du 22 mars meets at CERFI locale, 7 Avenue de Jerzy
1968 (end of May)
Raymond Marcellin becomes Minister of the Interior; De Gaulle’s ‘participation’ speech
1968 (Summer)
Cahier pour l’analyse 9: ‘Généalogie des sciences’, interview with Foucault (drafts of Archéologie du savoir)
1968 (September)
Creation of Gauche proletairienne
1968 (October)
Formal creation of University of Vincennes, with Commission d’orientation including Barthes, Derrida, Le Roy Ladurie, Canguilhem
1968 (October)
Death of Jean Hyppolite
1968 (November)
Edgar Faure’s loi d’orientation – reform of University administration
1968 (December)
Foucault co-opted as Professor of Philosophy at Vincennes
1969
Gilles Deleuze, Logique du sens
1969 (January)
Teaching starts at Vincennes
1969 (January)
Michel Foucault tribute to Hyppolite
1969 (January)
Occupation of Vincennes and clash with police; Foucault arrested
1969 (February)
Mutualité meeting with Sartre and Foucault
1969 (February)
Foucault lecture to the Société française de philosophie, ‘What is an Author?’
1969 (February)
Foucault lectures at Vincennes on ‘Sexuality and Individuality’ (DF)
1969 (February)
Alain Geismar, Serge July, E. Morane, Vers la guerre civile
1969 (March)
Michel Foucault, ‘Ariane s’est pendue’ – review of Deleuze, Différence et répétition, in Le Nouvel Observateur
1969 (March)
Publication of special issue of Partisans (Maspero), Garde-fous arrêtez de vous serrer les coudes
1969 (March)
Michel Foucault, L’Archéologie du savoir
1969 (May)
Epistolary exchanges between Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
1969 (June)
First encounter of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari via intermediary Jean-Pierre Muyard, St Leonard de Noblat, Limousin (Deleuze)
1969 (July)
Publication of Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux
1969 (September)
Chaban-Delmas as Minister of Interior promotes ‘new society’
1969 (September)
Issue 9 of Recherches (radical pedagogy)
1969 (November)
Foucault elected to Collège de France as Professor of the History of Systems of Thought
1969 (December)
Évolution psychiatrique conference in Toulouse: critique of Foucault
1970 (Winter 1969)
Foucault lectures at Vincennes on Nietzsche (UV 170)
1970
Publication of issue of L’Arc on Klossowski, including Deleuze & Guattari, ‘La Synthèse disjunctive’, excerpt from Anti-Œdipe
1970
Publication of Pierre Klossowski, La Monnaie vivante
1970 (February)
Methane explosion at Ménin-Liétard mine in Lens
1970 (March)
Gilles Deleuze, ‘Un nouvel archiviste’, Critique, review of Foucault’s Archéologie du savoir
1970 (April)
Marcellin’s Loi anti-casseurs
1970 (May)
Proscription of Gauche proletairienne by Marcellin; protest meeting at the Mutualité, arrest of Alain Geismar and subsequent riots
1970 (May)
Georges Bataille, Œuvres completes I, preface by Michel Foucault
1970 (May)
Issue 10 of Recherches (institutional psychiatry)
1970 (June)
Creation of ‘Secours rouge’ (Sartre)
1970 (June)
Althusser, ‘Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d’Etat’, La Pensée
1970 (July-August)
Special issue of Annales on ‘Histoire et urbanisation’
1970 (November)
Michel Foucault, ‘Theatrum philosophicum’ Critique, review of Deleuze, Logique du sens & Différence et répétition
1970 (December)
Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, ‘L’Ordre du discours’
1970 (December) - 1971 (March)
Foucault lectures at the Collège de France, ‘Leçons sur la Volonté de savoir’
1970 (December)
‘People’s court’ on catastrophe at Lens
1971
Creation of Mission de la recherche urbaine
1971
Foucault seminar starts at Collège de France
1971
Michel Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Généalogie, Histoire’ in Hommage à Jean Hyppolite
1971 (January)
Publication of Jean-Claude Polack, La Médecine du Capital, Maspero - Cahiers libres
1971 (February)
Demonstrations; brutalisation of Richard Deshayes; shown on the cover of Tout!; strikes and protests
1971 (February)
Creation of Groupe d’information sur les prisons
1971 (February)
Publication of Michel Foucault, L’Ordre du discours
1971 (April)
FHAR Rapport contre la normalité,
1971 (April)
Michel Foucault, lecture on Nietzsche at McGill University, Montreal
1971 (April)
Creation of Front révolutionnaire d’action homosexuel (FHAR) via issue of Tout!
1971 (May)
Brutalisation by the police of journalist Alain Jaubert
1971 (May)
Creation of Agence de presse Libération
1971 (May)
Publication of Nietzsche, Par-delà le bien et le mal/Généalogie de la morale, Collin and Montinari edition, Vol VII
1971 (July)
Foucault - debate with the ‘maos’ (Benny Lévy, André Glucksmann) on people’s courts.
1971 (July)
Approval of 6th Plan (1971-1975)
1971 (Autumn)
Marie-Thérèse Vernet approaches Foucault for CERFI Genealogy project (DM)
1971 (Autumn)
CERFI moves to 103 Boulevard Beaumarchais
1971 (September)
CERFI’s initial response to funding call (Chapter 1: ‘La Ville ordinateur’)
1971 (September)
‘Clairvaux affair’: prisoners Buffet & Bontemps take warden and nurse hostage and kill them. Minister Pleven withdraws Christmas parcels; protests ensue
1971 (November-March)
Foucault lectures at the Collège de France on ‘Théories et institutions pénales’; seminar on medico-legal practices (Pierre Rivière)
1971 (December)
Prison mutiny at Toul
1971 (late)
Creation of Groupe d’Information sur les Asiles (GIA)
1972
Félix Guattari, Psychanalyse et transversalité
1972
Publication of Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche et la métaphore
1972
C. Baudelot & R. Establet, L’École capitaliste en France, Maspero
1972 (January)
Publication of Roger Gentis, Les Murs de l’asile, Maspero
1972 (March)
Michel Foucault, ‘Le Savoir d’œdipe’ lecture at SUNY
1972 (March)
Murder of Pierre Overney by Renault Billancourt factory; demonstrations; kidnapping of Nogrette, Renault official
1972 (March)
Re-edition of Foucault, Naissance de la clinique
1972 (March)
Publication of 1972 Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Œdipe
1972 (April-May)
Foucault in round-table debate on social work published in Esprit
1972 (May)
Foucault & Deleuze, ‘Les intellectuels et le pouvoir’ in L’Arc. Gilles Deleuze
1972 (May)
Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari - discussions on collective equipment with CERFI Genealogy group (DD)
1972 (May)
Conference at Waterloo (Belgium) on institutional psychotherapy
1972 (April)
Murder of Brigitte Dewevre
1972 (June)
Re-edition of complete text of Histoire de la folie, without preface
1972 (July)
Les Temps modernes ‘Nouveau fascisme, nouvelle démocratie’; debate on people’s tribunals with Foucault, Benny Lévy, Glucksmann (GP)
1972 (July)
Nietzsche conference at Cérisy (Deleuze presents the paper ‘La Pensée nomade’; interventions from Klossowski, Derrida, Lyotard, Kofman etc.)
1972 (July)
Special issue of Annales on ‘Famille et society’
1972 (Summer)
Dissolution of Secours rouge
1972 (September)
Suicide of Gérard Grandmontagne, Fresnes prison
1972 (October)
Publication of manifesto of Groupe Information Santé in La Nef (Foucault)
1972 (October-December)
‘la toupie folle’: intense period of composition for CERFI Genealogy group
1972 (October)
CERFI Genealogy group’s ‘règlement de comptes’ with ‘La Ville-Métaphore’; Marie-Thérèse Vernet-Straggiotti on holiday
1972 (October)
Murder of Djellali ben Ali
1972 (November)
CERFI Genealogy group’s ‘première mouture’ of Recherches 13
1972 (December)
Death of Mohammed Diab
1972 (December)
Dissolution of GIP; Creation of CAP (Comité d’action des prisonniers) ADDD (Association de défense des droits des détenus)
1973 (January)
Issue 11 of Recherches (extracts from Waterloo - date: conference)
1973 (January)
GIP – Suicides dans les prisons en 1972, preface by Deleuze
1973 (January)
Foucault lectures on La Société punitive at Collège de France; seminar on Pierre Rivière
1973 (March)
Publication of Recherches 12 – Trois milliards de pervers
1973 (April)
First issue of Libération
1973 (May)
Foucault lectures in Rio, ‘Vérité et forms juridiques’
1973 (September)
Publication of Pierre Rivière dossier
1973 (December)
dissolution of Gauche proletairienne
1973 (December)
Foucault accords patronage of 2 CERFI studies: Genealogy of equipments of normalisation (health and schools) N. 168; Analysis of urban equipment in urban planning
1973 (December)
Publication of Recherches 13 – Généalogie du capital: Les équipments du pouvoir
1974
Dieppe conference on ‘Politiques urbaines et planification’
1974 (January)
Publication of Recherches 14 – Généalogie du capital 2: L’Idéal historique
1974 (April)
Seizure of Recherches 12 and trial of Guattari; Foucault and Deleuze are witnesses
1974 (April)
Death of Georges Pompidou
1974 (May)
Election of Giscard d’Estaing
1974 (June)
Issue 15 of Recherches: Programmation et architecture
1974 (December)
Robert Linhart, ‘Gauchisme à vendre’ + Serge July in Libération
1975 (March)
Further critiques in Libération
1976 (December)
Recherches 25 Le Petit travailleur indefatigable
1975
Publication of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: pour une littérature mineure
1977 (September)
Publication of Félix Guattari, La Révolution moléculaire (Editions Recherches)
1979 (End)
Guattari writes Equipments collectifs et assujetissement sémiotique (Lignes de fuite)
1979 (September)
Félix Guattari, L’Inconscient machinique (Editions Recherches)
1982 (September)
Recherches 46 François Fourquet, ‘L’accumulation du pouvoir ou le désir d’Etat; Synthèse des recherches du Cerfi de 1970 à 1981’