Critical Theory Working Group, Wokeness Must be Defended. Podcast on Patreon, 4 April 2026 JE, Cam and Re interrogate Foucault’s mid 1970s lectures at the Collège de France, Society Must be Defended. They discuss Foucault’s method, his genealogy from Race Wars to Racism and modern conspiratorial thinking among other things.
Mats Inauen, Reading Michel Foucault Today: In Conversation with Philipp Sarasin, The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics and Art, 21 July 2026. Philipp Sarasin is emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and one of the foremost scholars of Michel Foucault in the German-speaking world. Among his many publications are Darwin und …
Editor: The latest round in the iterative saga of critiques of “woke” and North American culture wars. It started with a post on X by Brivael Le Pogam on 15 May 2026 which has of the current date attracted 55.5 million views (by no doubt a mixture of humans and bots) and 4.1k replies. The …
Serge Audier, Le Néolibéralisme, Foucault et nous, Le Bord de l’eau, Carignan-de-Bordeaux, 2026 Le cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France sur la « naissance de la biopolitique » s’est imposé comme une référence fondamentale pour toute réflexion sur le néolibéralisme dans ses différentes dimensions – théorique, historique, sociologique, etc. Beaucoup y ont vu …
Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy. Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power, SUNY Press, November 2026 Description Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles and his engagement with Marxism. Michel Foucault has exerted enormous influence on our understanding of power and penal systems, above all with his work Discipline …
Call for papers: Panels for annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in 2027 Abstracts are due 30 September 2026. The 58th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Newport, Rhode Island, USA on March 6-9, 2027. There are a number of panels of interest to Foucault scholars and others working in the …
Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life. Guest post on Shelley Tremain’s blog, Biopolitical Philosophy, 13 July 2026 I first encountered the work of Michel Foucault twenty years ago. It was March 2006, and I was a second-year undergraduate student at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. On a rainy winter day, …
Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide. A Genealogy of the Fantasy of the West, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 About this book Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology. Fueled by the settler colonial imaginary, the logic of “speciation” inevitably …
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless …
Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum’s 48th annual session Cittàdi Castello, Italy, Jul 6-24, with the participants conference taking place July 4 and 5, 2026 PDF of poster Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by …
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