I’m pleased to announce that Foucault Studies is now published by Penn Press. Foucault Studies is the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault. The journal remains open access. Future issues will be hosted on Project MUSE, while back issues will continue to be available on …
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Encoding Plasticity: The Rise of Molecular Biopolitics and Human Capital, University of Toronto Quarterly 2025 94:2, 257-275 Abstract This article explores the fundamental concept of plasticity in living organisms and its complex relationship with capitalism and its datafication of life. Plasticity is presented as a crucial adaptive mechanism allowing organisms to respond …
Xenia Chiaramonte, Bio-story. Michel Foucault and the history of social medicine. In Eds. Marta-Laura Cenedese, Clio Nicastro, Violence, Care, Cure. Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter, Routledge, 2025 Abstract In October 1974, Foucault gave three lectures in Rio de Janeiro on the archaeology of the cure. This piece will comment on the first two, published a …
Paolo Vernaglione Berardi, Per una storia della verità, Archeologia del presente blog, 2 Aprile 2025 Michel Foucault nella prima lezione dell’ultimo corso al Collège de France, Il coraggio della verità, riprende la nozione di parresia e definisce diversi modi del dir vero. le strutture caratteristiche dei differenti discorsi che vengono accetatati come veri si riferiscono …
Shahidullah, A. K. M., & Mohiuddin, H. (2025). Indoctrinated Developmentalism and Local Sustainability: A Social–Ecological Model for Community-Based Enterprises. Sustainability, 17(9), 4181. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17094181 Abstract Developmental approaches over time have been largely economistic and overlooked local sustainability preconditions. They were greatly influenced by a host of doctrines, theories, and strategies argued through macro-level, macro-scale policies. This …
Michel Senellart, Oikonomia et regimen. À propos d’une critique de M. Foucault par G. Agamben, Laval théologique et philosophique, Volume 79, Number 3, 2023, p. 355–368 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1107500ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1107500ar Résumé Cet article propose une réponse à la critique adressée par G. Agamben, dans Le Règne et la Gloire (2008), à la généalogie foucaldienne de la gouvernementalité. …
Tom Nicholas, Postmodernism is dead. This is Who Killed It. Apr 25, 2025 Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas. Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows. Remember postmodernism? Just under a decade ago, the term “postmodernism” seemed to be everywhere. To slightly nerdier commentators on the political right (including Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Gad Saad, …
Andreas Elpidorou, Josefa Ros Velasco, Eds. The History and Philosophy of Boredom, Routledge, 2025 Description From Lucretius’s horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination. Its story, unfolding through millennia, encompasses apathy, weariness, …
Prozorov, S. (2023). Foucault and Agamben on Augustine, Paradise and the Politics of Human Nature. Theory, Culture & Society, 41(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221140811 (Original work published 2024) Abstract This article focuses on Foucault’s and Agamben’s readings of Augustine’s account of human nature and original sin. Foucault’s analysis of Augustine’s account of sexual acts in paradise, subordinated …
Demelius, Y., & Yoshida, Y. (2025). Technologies of the YouTuber self: Digital vigilantism, masculinities and attention economy in neoliberal Japan. Global Crime, 26(2), 120–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2025.2451833 ABSTRACT This paper investigates YouTube vigilantism in contemporary Japan. While studies have discussed the relationship between vigilantism and the public police and technology’s role in the weaponisation of visibility, attempts …
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