Foucault News

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

Essien, Essien Oku. 2025. “Climate Change Disinformation on Social Media: A Meta-Synthesis on Epistemic Welfare in the Post-Truth Era” Social Sciences 14, no. 5: 304. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14050304 Abstract Climate change disinformation has emerged as a substantial issue in the internet age, affecting public perceptions, policy response, and climate actions. This study, grounded on the theoretical frameworks …

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Joakim Slinning Lange, “Stemmen som fortsetter etter døden (om Henri-Paul Fruchaud (red.), Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983). In Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon, nr. 1-2, 2025 “Judith Butler”, 265-89 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/agora.43.1-2.12 40 år etter forfatterens død fortsetter det han sa og skrev, å snakke til oss. På tampen av en lang rekke posthume utgivelser fra …

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Foucault Studies, Issue 37, Spring 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial pp. iii-v DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00001 Special Section: Contributions from the Foucault Circle Lauren Guilmette, Ege Selin Islekel pp. 1-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00002 black Foucault: An Intellectual Reparations Project Taryn D. Jordan, Haylee Christine Harrell pp. 5-34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00003 On COVID and Racism as “Twin Pandemics”: …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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