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 (January)

Issue 1 of Recherches (texts by Guattari, Muyard, Preli, Deligny, Fabre)

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 (April)

De Gaulle resigns; Pompidou becomes President.

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 (November)

Execution (by guillotine) of Buffet and Bontemps

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’

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