Foucault News

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

Anna Nygren, An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car, Literary Hub, 13 February 2026. Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization One day last summer, at my parents’ house on the east coast of Sweden, my dad says he wants to show me something. He pulls out a piece …

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Séminaire de Michel Foucault du 17 mai 1979 au Collège de FrancePar Michel Foucault, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Paul Veyne, Raisons politiques 2025/4 n° 100, Pages 15 à 52 https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.100.0015 Texte établi à partir d’une discussion d’environ deux heures, enregistrée et conservée par François Ewald, assistant de Michel Foucault entre 1976 et 1984 par Michel …

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Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 23 au 25 septembre 2026 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen, IMEC Soumissions avant le 1er juin 2026 Appel à communications/ Pour le centenaire de Michel Foucault, l’Imec accueille les rencontres doctorales de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault. Ces journées en immersion à l’abbaye …

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Nele Jensen, Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 397, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119127. Abstract: Recent years have seen the progressive expansion of Integrative Medicine (IM) as a self-proclaimed movement of medical professionals aiming to radically re-orient medicine’s reductionist focus on disease and treatment towards a new …

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İhsan Gürsoy, Can education liberate us? Reframing an old question, Journal of Philosophy of Education, February 2026 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhag002 Abstract This article reframes the question ‘Can education liberate us?’ by shifting attention from education’s capacity to produce emancipated individuals to its capacity to enable—or foreclose—liberation within the experience of subjectivation. Instead of proposing new educational theory …

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Joanne Hunt, (2026). Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Disability & Society, 41(1), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2492653 Abstract Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy – albeit unequally – society’s …

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Joanne Hunt. Mapping the government of disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A critical feminist account. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. 2025. Vol. 5(3):332-356. https://www.doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.5.3.0004 Abstract​ People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have historically been conceptualised in health and social policy as “undeserving” of societal support, largely via a variant of biopsychosocial model …

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Stuart Jeffries, Jürgen Habermas obituary, The Guardian, 16 March 2026 Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule The philosopher, social theorist and defender of humane Enlightenment values Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, spent the last months of the second world war helping …

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