Critique 935. Après Canguilhem. Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie « Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose à toute une série de discussions. » Par ces mots, Michel Foucault faisait de Georges Canguilhem l’invisible clef de voûte de la philosophie française. Pourtant, à son décès en 1995, l’austère historien des sciences ne nous …
Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from within the tradition of liberal political economy. Divided into two parts …
Rovira Martorell, J., Gálvez, A., & Tirado, F. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth. Theory, Culture & Society, 42(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241268174 (Original work published 2025) Abstract The aim of this paper is to present artificial intelligence (AI) as an organ with a role in the production of judicial truth, expanding its objects, …
Jones, Luke, Zoe Avner, Neil Boardman, and Jim Denison. 2025. “Confessions of a Retired Footballer: A Foucauldian Reading of British Working Footballers’ Longer-Term Retirement Experiences.” Sport in Society, March, 1–21. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2025.2470144 Abstract Historically, the phenomenon of retirement from high-performance sport has predominantly been researched through a psychological or psychosocial lens, highlighting the key challenges experienced …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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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