Indrajit Mukherjee, (2025). Performing the Otherness: Vodou/Voodoo as a Cultural Marker of Subaltern Resistance in Magical Realist Narratives. In: Bacon, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7_113-1 Abstract The Vodou/Voodoo exercises, often associated with the Aja, Ewe, Kongo, and Wolof people of the pre-colonial West African continent, refer to the …
Appel à contributions: Regards sur le « nouveau droit » foucaldien – | Call for papers: Perspectives on the Foucauldian « New Law » PDF of Call for papers […] As part of the publication of thematic issues, the open-access legal journal Lex Electronica invites those interested in exploring the theme of the “new Foucauldian …
Emmanuel Le Doeuff, Les thèses annotées de Michel Foucault sont désormais en ligne sur Numerabilis, Panacée, 7 mai 2026 https://doi.org/10.58079/166xv Comme nous l’indiquions dans un billet précédent1, les trois volumes de la thèse principale de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ainsi que les deux volumes de sa thèse complémentaire sont conservés à la BU Henri-Piéron. Intitulées respectivement …
Donna M. Goldstein & Magdalena E. Stawkowski, Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk, Journal of the History of Biology (Published: 19 March 2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09851-0 Abstract This paper explores the complexities of extrapolating insect data to understand nuclear exposure effects on humans. Within radiation research, animal studies are …
Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society A Reappraisal, Routledge, 2026 This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, tensions, inconsistencies, and transformations in Foucault’s work, the book shows how, in Foucault’s later years, his ideas gradually converged toward a conception of …
Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities. A new peer-reviewed, open access journal launching in 2027 in Kyoto, Japan. The inaugural special issue, will be the ‘The Birth of Michel Foucault (La naissance de Michel Foucault) a volume marking the centenary of his birth. The call for papers has just opened. Frontier Ethics: A Journal …
Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault. A Virtual Force Ontology, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 Christopher Penfield illuminates the philosophical encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, developing the first systematic treatment of Deleuze’s book Foucault, originally published in 1986. Using the full spectrum of Foucault’s primary texts, as well as new insights and analysis from Deleuze’s recently …
Rosario Palese, 2026. “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge” Societies 16, no. 3: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16030102 Abstract This article examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reconfiguring truth regimes in digital societies, introducing the concept of “Artificial Truth” to describe an emerging form of epistemic governance where knowledge production …
Shai Gortler, 2026. “Foucault and the Prisons Information Group’s Counter-subjectivation.” Philosophy and Society 37 (1): 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2601173G Abstract Between February 1971 and December 1972, Michel Foucault co-founded and was an active member of the Prisons Information Group (Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, hereafter GIP). Through demonstrations, direct action, and publications, the GIP sought to intervene …
Foukenstein is a conversational performance that gives voice to an artificial figure freely inspired by Michel Foucault. Starting from a written question, the dispositif produces a spoken response by combining text generation, the mobilization of theoretical references, short-term memory, and speech synthesis. It does not seek to simulate Foucault, nor to offer a faithful incarnation …
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