Benoît Loiseau

🅲🅾🆅🅴🆁(🆂) 🆁🅴🆅🅴🅰🅻 A Barbara-Krugeresque retro collage cover for @yalebooks and, of course, @fitzcarraldoeditions ' iconic French-style cover needs no introduction. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤 comes out Sept 24th (UK) & 29th (US). I look forward to sharing it with you. ⚕️ ⚕️ ⚕️ #booklover #yaleuniversitypress #fitzcarraldo #foucault #medicalhistory

Hi! My forthcoming book, The Clinic, will be published in North America by Yale University Press. I'm stoked. Thanks to my editors on both sides of the Atlantic, Tamara at Fitzcarraldo and Jessie at Yale. Thanks to my agent, @serenadams , too. I can't wait to share it with y'all 🏥 #publishersmarketplace

I'm excited to share that my first book, THE CLINIC, is forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2025. It has lived in my head for some time and I couldn't have asked for a better home for it. Thanks to my agent @serenadams my editor Tamara and the team at @fitzcarraldoeditions for taking a chance on this odd little book. 🏥

thank yous for the birthday love 💜 ageing sucks a little less with yall

I'm excited to present some new archive-based research at the New School on May 5, in conversation with @jamiesonwebster and Elias Dakwar. RSVP at event.newschool.edu/stalkingfoucault Thanks to @maria_markiewicz_ at The Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute for the invite.

"When you say 'I love you'...you're saying 'I stand here at the limits of language such that I cannot describe how deeply I feel about you.' We all say it." Gregg Bordowitz, reflecting on Roland Barthes at NYU's Maison Française. Thanks to everyone we came down last night for the lecture/performance/conversation "Possibilities in Theory." [Photography on the walls by Reza, curated by @charli_sass ]

I'm excited to introduce a lecture by artist, writer and activist Gregg Bordowitz, followed by a conversation, on the impact of Francophone philosophy or "French Theory" in shaping artistic practices in 1980s-1990s New York, in ways that continue to resonate today. 🗓 Thursday April 16 ⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM 📍 La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, NYC 🎟 RSVP via NYU Maison Française https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/maisonfrancaise/events/spring-2026/greg-bordowitz--possibilities-in-theory-.html #greggbordowitz #actup #frenchphilosophy #frenchinnewyork

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I am positively chuffed to share that my second book, an academic monograph based on my doctoral thesis and provisionally titled THE QUEER ART OF AUTOFABULATION: DISOBEDIENT SELF-FICTIONS AFTER HIV/AIDS, is now under contract with @nyupress as part of their iconic Sexual Cultures Series, co-founded by the late José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini. I could not have hoped for a better home for my fabulatory pursuits. My sincere gratitude to the Series editors, Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong'o and Joshua Chambers-Letson, and the editorial team at NYU Press, for supporting my work. I can't wait for what's to come. Images: *Kia LaBeija, Eleven, 2015. *Hervé Guibert, Still from La Pudeur ou l’impudeur, 1991. *Gregg Bordowitz, Still from Fast Trip, Long Drop, 1993. *Paul B. Preciado, Still from Orlando. My Political Biography, 2023. *Tourmaline, Still from Pollinator, 2022

Feb 3: Very excited to be organising and moderating a conversation (en français) on fabulation with philosophers Vinciane Despret and Nadia Yala Kisukidi, whose work I admire deeply. This event is part of a series of three conversations with Despret, who is visiting our department from Liège RSVP at the Maison Française's website: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/maisonfrancaise.html

Sept 24 ⚕️ The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine weaves together biography, history and personal reflection in a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history. A sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin. A preventive health centre in pre-NHS London. A radical institute of psychiatry and medical philosophy in a post-war French chateau. A feminist health centre born from the women's liberation movement in Geneva. A grassroots research initiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s-90s New York. Each of these clinics emerged in response to seismic political shifts and era-defining global events – yet at their heart lie the stories of extraordinary individuals who dared to reimagine how we care for one another. At once deeply personal and sharply analytical, Benoît Loiseau's investigation is anchored in his own encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health worker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes addressed to her, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes of medicine today. Reframing Michel Foucault's seminal text, The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to reimagine the clinic – not as a fixed institution, but as a living, evolving practice rooted in care, resistance and collective imagination.

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