Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Monica Greco, Biopolitics. In Eds. Arpad Szakolczai and Paul OʼConnor, Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, Elgar, 356–359 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310494.00075 Abstract While Michel Foucault was not the first to use the term ‘biopolitics’, his formulation of this concept transformed its meaning fundamentally for subsequent generations of scholars. Through this concept, Foucault turned the tables on a tradition …

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Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi, (2025). Pastoral Power: Perspectives on the Present. Theory, Culture & Society, Online 26 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251397525 Open access Abstract This introduction to this special section of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the formation of power that Michel Foucault – in a number of texts and lectures from the late …

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Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? …

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Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli, Constanza Parra, Artur da Rosa Pires, The politics of possibility in just transitions: A Foucauldian reading, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 129, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104375 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s notions of power, knowledge, governmentality, and biopolitics, we explore the epistemological and ontological foundations of just transition discourses. Current hegemonic conceptualizations of …

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Georgios Tsagdis, Anthropocene Anarchives, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2025.0620 Abstract The essay pursues Deleuze’s reading of Foucault in order to elicit a fourfold of anarchival virtualities that trouble and destabilise the constitution of every archive. This thematisation of the anarchival is critical in an age that orders life relentlessly, arranging and …

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Phillip Joy, Meredith Bessey, and Linda Mann “I Believe in Santa Claus” and Ozempic: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Holiday Health Advertising. Qualitative Health Research. First published online June 19, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251350876 Open access Abstract This study examines the weight-related discourses in holiday advertising for Ozempic, a prescription drug originally developed for diabetes management but …

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Huseyin Caliskan, Ustuner Birben & Sezgin Ozden, Shifting Priorities: How Amendments in Forestry Law Impact Resource Management, the Case of Türkiye. Environmental Management 76, 13 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02308-w Abstract In Türkiye, where nearly all forests are publicly owned, the government exercises substantial authority over forest management and utilization. This study examines how legislative and regulatory changes …

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Call for Papers Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory Date: 17-19 June, 2026 Location: Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven) Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia) Deadline Call for Papers: 31 January, 2026 PDF of call for papers As new forms of exclusion and colonialism are emerging and old …

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CFP: “Speech and Politics” with Miranda Fricker Sciences Po’s 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory Submission deadline: January 31, 2026 Conference date(s): May 27, 2026 – May 28, 2026 Call for papers Key words: Attentiveness, listening, discourses, representation, political language, democracy, margins The relationship between speech and politics has recently become the object of renewed …

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