Foucault News

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

Jerome C. Wakefield, Foucault Versus Freud, Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality, Routledge, 2025 In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud’s influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault. …

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Oztig, L. I., & Karluk, A. C. (2025). Beyond Foucault and Post-Panoptic Theories: New Perspectives on China’s Surveillance Mechanisms in East Turkestan. Geopolitics, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2465681 ABSTRACT Surveillance is as old as human history. In pre-modern times, it mostly took place through spies, informants, and guards. In modern times, it became a systematised practice conducted through …

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Ahrens, T., & Ferry, L. (2025). Governmentality, counter-conduct, and modes of governing: Accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management. Contemporary Accounting Research, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.13026 Abstract Recent research into the uses of accounting as a technology of government has used Foucault’s notion of “counter-conduct” to shed light on various ways in which the governed …

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Wahyudi Akmaliah, Review: Making the subject of Sunda, Inside Indonesia, 14 April 2025 What is ethnicity? Is it social construction or a part of an ancestral heritage? In what way is ethnicity significant in the Indonesian context? These are the questions Holy Rafika Dhona tries to answer in Subjek Sunda: Genealogi. Kelahiran, dan Kewilayahan.  Specifically, he offers …

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Dhona, H. R. (2024). Islamic communication as an invention of modern-western knowledge: critical analysis toward Islamic communication in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Communication, 34(3), 381–398. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2024.2320902 ABSTRACT This article questions the idea that Islamic communication is rooted purely in the religion itself. By studying the field of Islamic communication studies in Indonesia, it analyzes discourses …

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Diefenhardt, F. (2025). Automating the managerial gaze: critical and genealogical notes on machine learning in personnel assessment. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2025.2470302 Abstract This paper takes a Foucauldian approach to current discussions on the use of machine learning in personnel selection, with a focus on pre-selection assessment. It problematizes two central …

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Reddy Naveen K. Redefining disease in the age of blood-based biomarkers, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1533429 Abstract This article explores the sociological and ethical implications of redefining disease in the era of advanced diagnostic technologies, with a focus on blood-based biomarkers. Drawing from Foucault’s concept of medicalization and Illich’s critique of disease mongering, …

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Yarar, B. (2025), Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War. Global Networks, 25: e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70004 ABSTRACT Over the past decade and more, many countries in the Middle East and Africa have experienced significant disruptions in their social and institutional life due to the rise …

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Stephen J. Ball , Jordi Collet-Sabé, Against School. Thinking Education Differently, Springer, 2025 About this book This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult …

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