Rosario Palese, 2026. “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge” Societies 16, no. 3: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16030102 Abstract This article examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reconfiguring truth regimes in digital societies, introducing the concept of “Artificial Truth” to describe an emerging form of epistemic governance where knowledge production …
Shai Gortler, 2026. “Foucault and the Prisons Information Group’s Counter-subjectivation.” Philosophy and Society 37 (1): 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2601173G Abstract Between February 1971 and December 1972, Michel Foucault co-founded and was an active member of the Prisons Information Group (Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, hereafter GIP). Through demonstrations, direct action, and publications, the GIP sought to intervene …
Foukenstein is a conversational performance that gives voice to an artificial figure freely inspired by Michel Foucault. Starting from a written question, the dispositif produces a spoken response by combining text generation, the mobilization of theoretical references, short-term memory, and speech synthesis. It does not seek to simulate Foucault, nor to offer a faithful incarnation …
Amin Zaini, 2026. Introducing noise cleansing: reading real-time censorship ambivalently. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2670699 ABSTRACT While censorship is often conceptualised as a retrospective and regulated practice, this study examines it as a real-time process of speech interruption and an under-explored dimension of contemporary surveillance. It foregrounds how silencing unfolds dynamically during the circulation …
Kristian D’Amato, ChatGPT: towards AI subjectivity, AI & Society, 40, pp.1627–1641 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01898-z Abstract Motivated by the question of responsible AI and value alignment, I seek to offer a uniquely Foucauldian reconstruction of the problem as the emergence of an ethical subject in a disciplinary setting. This reconstruction contrasts with the strictly human-oriented programme typical …
Marc Trabsky, Death. New Trajectories in Law, Routledge, 2024 This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of …
Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 Open access 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. …
Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German, Research Monographs in French Studies, 71 (Legenda, 2025) The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this reason that Foucault’s ideas are difficult to translate. Yet in Anglophone debates, the task of translation has not …
Kélina Gotman, What is a thoughtful life?, Manchester University Press, forthcoming June 2026 In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought …
Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory, Translated by Andrew Brown, Polity Press, 2026 Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: these were among the luminaries of France’s golden age of theory from the 1960s to the 1990s. What is less …
