Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026
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Table of Contents
Editorial
Daniele Lorenzini
pp. iii-v
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00024
Critique Beyond Criticism: The Crisis and Potentials of Critique in Critical Times
Sverre Raffnsøe, Daniele Lorenzini, Dorthe Staunæs, Martina Tazzioli
pp. 1-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00025
The Pressing Task of Critique
Bernard E. Harcourt, Robert Harvey, Sverre Raffnsøe
pp. 26-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00026
Critique and Criticism, in Times of Crisis
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sverre Raffnsøe
pp. 39-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00027
Criticism, Confidence and the Crisis in Critique
David Owen
pp. 73-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00028
Critique “After” Foucault: Peter Sloterdijk, Affirmative Critique, and the Genealogy of the Critical Attitude
Erik Sporon Fiedler
pp. 88-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00029
Genealogy as Critical Practice: Toward a Reading of Affective Genealogy
Mostyn Taylor Crockett
pp. 109-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00030
The Impolitical Concept of Uselessness as a Heuristic Category for Critical Resistance to the Neoliberal Order: A Foucauldian Approach
Léa Antonicelli
pp. 132-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00031
Sadomasochism in Foucault’s Thought and Its Potential Critical Dimension
Cristian Gonzalez Arevalo
pp. 158-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00032
Critique, Counter-Conduct, Form of Life
Dawn Herrera Helphand
pp. 175-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00033
“Toward the Life that It Is Preparing”: Dreaming and Fabulating as Critical Arts
Kris Pint
pp. 197-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00034
Speculative Critique: Saidiya Hartman, Michel Foucault, and the Limits of the Archive
Miriam Schröder
pp. 219-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00035
Problematizing Nature: A Foucault Against the Anthropocene
Stefan Rohrhirsch
pp. 240-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00036
Black Thought Contra-Foucault? Critique, Counter-History, and the Search for an Originary Cut
Daniel J. Schultz
pp. 259-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00037
Reviews
Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics ed. by Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (review)
Silvia Capodivacca
pp. 286-289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00038
Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 by Elisabetta Basso (review)
Sneha V. John, Thahiya Afzal
pp. 290-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00039
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) ed. by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn (review)
Anil Kumar
pp. 294-297
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00040
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow (review)
Naz Oktay
pp. 298-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00041
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