Foucault News

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

Lindholm, S. (2025). Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537251324164 Abstract The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim …

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Patrick Boucheron, The Archaeologist and the Historian: Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben, Translated by Matthew Collins, Journal of Italian Philosophy, Volume 8 (2025), 117 – 123 Open access Original text: Boucheron, P. (2017/1–2), ‘L’archéologue et l’historien. Dialogue avec Giorgio Agamben’, Critique, 836–37, pp. 164–71. Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/criti.836.0164 (accessed 13th August 2024). This conversation between Patrick Boucheron …

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Paolo A. Bolaños, Figurations of French Critical Theory, Kritike Volume 16 Number Four (February 2025) 128-136 DOI:10.25138/18.4.a6 Abstract: In this brief article, I merely present a schematic presentation of the “figurations” of French critical theory. I rehearse the historical and institutional circumstances of French academia that produced progressive thinkers, such as, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, …

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D’Amato, K. ChatGPT: towards AI subjectivity. AI & Society 40, 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 …

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Jones, H., Arnould, E. Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct. Journal of Business Ethics 198, 387–406 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05752-6 Abstract This paper investigates Street Fight Radio’s consumer community’s resistance to neoliberal financial consumer responsibilization. Extant scholarship critiques consumer responsibilization on ethical grounds for placing too much responsibility on consumers at the expense of institutional actors. …

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Pierre Nora, académicien et historien de l’âme française, est mort Par Jacques de Saint Victor, Le Figaro, 4 juin 2025 L’historien, auteur des « Lieux de mémoire », vient de disparaître à l’âge de 93 ans. Il fut à la fois un grand éditeur et un intellectuel soucieux de comprendre la France et son évolution, …

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Variyan, G., McKnight, L., & Charles, C. (2025). The subterranean masculinities of elite private boys’ schools. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2447534 ABSTRACT The #metoo movement has led to countless revelations of sexual misconduct across the globe. Schools have not been immune from such allegations and elite private boys’ schools in particular …

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Call for Papers Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research This panel is a part of 5th Congress of Young Science Gdansk, Poland, July 17-19, 2025 Moderator: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza Scientific supervisor: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza; Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco …

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Ryan, M. We’re only human after all: a critique of human-centred AI. AI & Society 40, 1303–1319 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01976-2 Abstract The use of a ‘human-centred’ artificial intelligence approach (HCAI) has substantially increased over the past few years in academic texts (1600 +); institutions (27 Universities have HCAI labs, such as Stanford, Sydney, Berkeley, and Chicago); in …

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William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics. A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, University of Chicago Press, 2024 A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and …

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