Amin Zaini, 2026. Introducing noise cleansing: reading real-time censorship ambivalently. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2670699 ABSTRACT While censorship is often conceptualised as a retrospective and regulated practice, this study examines it as a real-time process of speech interruption and an under-explored dimension of contemporary surveillance. It foregrounds how silencing unfolds dynamically during the circulation …
Kristian D’Amato, ChatGPT: towards AI subjectivity, AI & Society, 40, pp.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 …
Marc Trabsky, Death. New Trajectories in Law, Routledge, 2024 This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of …
Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Daniele Lorenzini pp. iii-v DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00024 Critique Beyond Criticism: The Crisis and Potentials of Critique in Critical Times Sverre Raffnsøe, Daniele Lorenzini, Dorthe Staunæs, Martina Tazzioli pp. 1-25 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00025 The Pressing Task of Critique Bernard E. Harcourt, Robert Harvey, Sverre Raffnsøe pp. …
Daniele Lorenzini, The Foucauldian Mind, Routledge, Forthcoming July 2026 Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His engagement with topics such as truth, power and language continues to exert significant influence …
Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German, Research Monographs in French Studies, 71 (Legenda, 2025) The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this reason that Foucault’s ideas are difficult to translate. Yet in Anglophone debates, the task of translation has not …
Kélina Gotman, What is a thoughtful life?, Manchester University Press, forthcoming June 2026 In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought …
Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory, Translated by Andrew Brown, Polity Press, forthcoming July 2026 Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: these were among the luminaries of France’s golden age of theory from the 1960s to the 1990s. What …
Bedross Der Matossian (Ed), Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century, University of Nebraska Press, 2023 Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation …
PhD course: Foucault: Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation LINK to the course site: https://phdsupport.nemtilmeld.dk/250/ Date and time Monday 1 June at 09:00 to Thursday 4 June 2026 at 16:00 Registration Deadline 26th April 2026 at 23:55 Submission of papers deadline 20th May 2026 Location Room TBA, Campus TBA, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Course coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen, Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL) Organizer …
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