Foucault News

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

Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Andrew Purves (Eds), Postcapitalist Countrysides. From commoning to community wealth building, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its premise is that capitalism, as …

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Robin Hickman, Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility challenges the dominant discourses of motorisation and the ineffective implementation of sustainable mobility, arguing that transport planning history is …

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Emanuele Iula, Transizioni. Il soggetto sessuale al vaglio della filosofia e della psicoanalisi, Orthotes Editrice, 2025 Il soggetto sessuale è una categoria emersa dalle ricerche di Michel Foucault, ma già presente nei testi di Simone de Beauvoir. Il nucleo concettuale, da cui si dipanano i vari tipi di esperienza menzionati dagli autori, consiste in una …

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Carr, M. Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites. Journal of Business Ethics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06055-0 Abstract This article critically examines the discourse of ‘bring your whole self to work’ within the diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) narratives of investment banks. While inclusion is …

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Alex Dubilet, Foucault, Our Contemporary, boundary 2 (2025) 52 (4): 7–48 https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-11938189 Abstract In fall 1978, Michel Foucault proposes political spirituality as a prism for understanding the Iranian uprising’s contravention of modernity’s secular coordinates, thus continuing the chain of conceptualization begun earlier that year with counter‐conduct and the critical attitude. But in extricating the facticity …

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Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) All details at this link Du 10 Décembre 2025 au 12 Décembre 2025 Comprendre pourquoi Michel Foucault fait retour inévitablement dans les généalogies contemporaines des néolibéralismes, c’est s’employer à ressaisir la pertinence du diagnostic du présent qui fut la sienne en 1979 lorsqu’il diagnostiqua le sens …

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Bala, M., Singh, S. When elephants fight back: Animal standpoint reading of Nirmal Ghosh’s Novella River Storm (2024) Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 14 (1), pp. 9-25. Cited 1 time. DOI: 10.1386/fict_00093_1 Abstract Drawing inspiration from Geoffrey Whitehall’s article titled ‘“When they fight back”: A cinematic archive of animal resistance and world wars’, this …

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Bar Foucault Instagram Facebook December 2025 will mark the fifth anniversary of the bar’s opening. From Vichayuth Chantan, Chiang Mai bars: Where to get the best cocktails up North, Lifstyle Asia, 26 September 2024 Named after the French philosopher most known for critiques of humanist philosophy, Bar Foucault offers guests a taste of power through …

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Carlson, Stephen C. “The Imposition of Authorship: Michel Foucault’s Author-Function and Papias of Hierapolis on the Gospel of Mark.” Harvard Theological Review 118, no. 2 (2025): 242–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816025100680. Abstract In a famous essay, Michel Foucault introduced the term “author-function” into scholarly discourse, and later scholars of authorship in antiquity have applied the term in different …

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Lars Erik L. Gjerde, Nordic Leviathans. A Weberian-Foucauldian Study of the Politics of COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 About this book This book offers a theoretical synthesis between the Foucauldian theory of power and the Weberian theory of the state. The book centres on the politics of COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden. …

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