Foucault News

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

Call for Papers Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique (1963) and L’archeologie du savoir (1969), the recurrence of the term “archaeology” marks the centrality of this notion in the period when …

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Atkinson-Ross, C., & Wu, W. (2025). Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools. Gender and Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506356 ABSTRACT This paper employs feminist poststructuralist and queer theory to analyze the experiences of three gay and lesbian middle leaders in Chinese schools. Drawing on Butler’s heterosexual matrix, and Foucault’s …

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Xenofontos, C. (2025). Mathematical heterotopias: lessons from other-ed spaces for the mainstream classroom. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2508715 ABSTRACT Many mathematics classrooms worldwide often adhere to rigid, traditional practices that may serve some students effectively but risk disengaging others. In this paper, I draw on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to introduce the notion …

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Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation, Columbia University Press, 2025 Interview with the author in Columbia News, June 25, 2025 Interview with the author on the New Books Network, Jan 17, 2026 What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of …

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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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