Diana Obeid, Prison Narratives in the Arab World. Writing as Resistance in Egypt and Syria, Bloomsbury, 2026 Description The book examines how imprisoned Arab authors challenge regimes that seek to reduce them to “docile bodies” or worse-subject them to haywana, the process of animalization that strips prisoners of their humanity. Through clandestine writing, fragmented memory, …
Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese (eds), COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations. Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures, Anthem Press, 2025 This book unveils the challenges of living beyond Covid-19 navigating trauma, solidarity, and transformative futures. The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 emerged in the city of Wuhan in December …
Jade G Roque and Marcos C Alvarez, Breaking the pendulum with Michel Foucault: Modern punishment beyond docile bodies, Punishment and Society, Published online 4 May 2026 https://doi.org/10.1177/146247452614465 Abstract Contemporary penal change is often explained as an institutionally mediated outcome of political, cultural, and social transformations that vacillate between affinity for retributive and rehabilitative penal measures. …
Damián Tuset Varela (2024). Artificial Intelligence Law through the Lens of Michel Foucault: Biopower, Surveillance, and the Reconfiguration of Legal Normativity. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12, 189-201. https://www.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2024.1212012 Abstract This paper examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on legal systems through the theoretical lens of Michel Foucault. It explores how AI, as a …
Etienne Balibar, Sur la catastrophe informatique : une fin de l’historicité ?, Les temps qui restent, 4 March 2024 La catastrophe digitale en cours fait des humains des inforgs, des organismes configurés et traités par l’informatique. Cela reconfigure les relations de pouvoir, de travail, et de production et circulation du symbolique : ce sont des conséquences anthropologiques. Elles …
Ruixun Dai, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas, and Shaun Rawolle. 2025. “Revisiting Foucault’s Panopticon: How Does AI Surveillance Transform Educational Norms?” British Journal of Sociology of Education 46 (5): 650–68 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2501118 Abstract This article applies Foucault’s theories of surveillance, disciplinary power, and normalisation to examine the shifting power dynamics in AI-mediated education. Drawing on qualitative responses …
Christophe Bouton, The problem of the transcendental from Kant to Hegel. The young Foucault’s interpretation of the “Phenomenology of Spirit” in his 1949 mémoire. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. First published: 13 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.70043 Abstract In this paper, I explore the young Foucault’s engagement with phenomenology in his master’s thesis, The Constitution of a …
Rubén Alepuz Cintas, Molecular Biopolitics and Biological Citizenship: Towards a New Configuration of Power over Life. (2026). Tábano, 27, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.2026.5394 Article in Spanish Abstract This article analyzes the evolution of the concept of biopolitics from Michel Foucault to Nikolas Rose, with a particular focus on molecular biopolitics and biological citizenship. It examines how contemporary …
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 …
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