Philippe Artières was born in 1968. He is a historian and Director of Research at the CNRS Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (EHESS-Paris) and was formerly President of the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault from 1995 to 2013. Also a former resident of the villa Medicis, he has published numerous essays, including D’Après Foucault with Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (Les Prairies ordinaries, 2007), Les Enseignes Lumineuses. Des écritures urbaines au XXe siècle (Bayard, 2010), Mémoires du sida with Janine Pierret (Bayard, 2012), Clinique de l'écriture. Une histoire du regard médical sur l'écriture (La Découverte, 2013) and a novella Vie et mort de Paul Geny («Fiction & Cie», Seuil, 2013) and very recently, the exhibition catalogue for L’Asile des photographies with photographer Mathieu Pernot (Le Point du jour, 2014). He wrote the critical apparatus for Intolérable by the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons (Verticales, 2013).