Foucault News

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

Call for Presentations Addressing Interior Violences International Conference. The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in the construction of violence …

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Anna Terwiel, Prison Abolition for Realists, University of Minnesota Press, December 2025 Forthcoming Description A lucid guide to the radical politics of prison abolitionists There is growing recognition that mass incarceration is unjust and undemocratic, but prison abolition continues to be dismissed as naïve, idealistic, and out of touch with reality. Anna Terwiel challenges this …

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Garruzzo, A. (2025). History and the Will to Power: Foucault and Nietzsche on Genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70010 ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in genealogy among social and political philosophers. I argue, however, that this growing literature has tended to obscure what distinguishes genealogy as an approach to …

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