Foucault and Marx, Genealogy + Critique, 2025-2026
Papers for the symposium “Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles” (University of Vienna, 18–19 October 2024). The symposium was part of the World Congress “Foucault: 40 years after”, marking the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death.
The special collection “Foucault and Marx,” edited by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, and Jonas Oßwald, explores key aspects of the ambivalent relationship between Foucault, Marx, and Marxism. Despite the significance of Foucault’s supposed anti-Marxism for the tensions and polemics between poststructuralism, critical theory, and Marxist theory, their relationship remains surprisingly underexplored. With the recent publication of Foucault’s early lectures, particularly Penal Theories and Institutions and The Punitive Society, a much more nuanced picture of Foucault’s account of Marx began to emerge than commonly assumed. The special collection aims to investigate this constellation against the backdrop of this latest perspective, shedding new light on questions of theoretical lineage and discontinuity as well as contemporary approaches, uses, and continuations of the Foucault–Marx nexus.
Editorial
Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Evi Jägle, Jonas Oßwald, “Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles,” Genealogy+Critique 12, no. 1 (2026). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.31073
Articles
– Matteo Polleri, “From Adversity to Heresy: Towards a Disjunctive Conjunction of Foucault and Marx,” Genealogy+Critique 11, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.23083
– Chiara Stefanoni and Francesco Aloe, “The Queer ‘Standpoint of Reproduction’: De Lauretis as a Reader of Althusser and Foucault,” Genealogy+Critique 11, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.22918
– Gordan Maslov and Atila Lukić, “As the Earth Falls into the Sun: Marx, Foucault and the Problem of Destruction,” Genealogy+Critique 11, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.22995
– Tanja Wischnewski and Johann Szews, “Modern Times: Zeitregime der Moderne bei Michel Foucault und Moishe Postone”, Genealogy+Critique 12, no. 1 (2026). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.23664
– Friederike Beier, “The Biopolitics of Social Re_production: Feminist Foucauldian and Marxist Perspectives,” Genealogy+Critique 12, no. 1 (2026). https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.23004
