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Paul Rabinow is a cultural anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley) and Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory. He is known for his development of an anthropology of modernity and for his practice of studying thought as it occurs in the world rather than as it is described in philosophical discourse. He is also well known as a close interlocuter of the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, as well as an editor and interpreter of Foucault's body of work. Rabinow's work has centered on modernity as a problem: for those seeking to live with its diverse forms and for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. Rabinow has called his approach as an anthropology of reason and, more recently, an anthropology of the contemporary. This interview exposes what Paul Rabinow calls contemporary equipment.

Interview by Christian Girard & Pierre Cutellic in Paris, February 2008, French version.

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