Foucault News

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

Dossier: Foucault, 40 años después: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) EN EL MARCO DEL WORLD CONGRESS: FOUCAULT 40 YEARS AFTER Dossier: Foucault desde el Sur Global (No. 41) Dossier: Foucault from the Global South (No. 41) Coordinadores / Coordinators: Hugo David Tavera Villegas Bertha Bermúdez Tapia FECHA LÍMITE DE ENVÍO: 17 DE FEBRERO …

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Pietro Barbetta, Giovanni Mascaretti, Lorenzo Petrachi (eds), Michel Foucault.Quarant’anni e poi, Orthotes Editrice, 2024 Sono trascorsi quarant’anni dalla scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Da allora, il corpus foucaultiano e i suoi utilizzi non hanno fatto che moltiplicarsi, diffondersi e diffrangersi, incontrando sulla loro strada movimenti sociali, studi post-coloniali e di genere, letterature e torsioni filosofiche inattese. …

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Antti Saari & Jan Varpanen, Critical ambiguities – ambiguities of critique: Technologies of the self in entrepreneurial activism, Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization, 2024 Open access Keywords critical theories, social movements, power, entrepreneurial activism, Foucault, subjectivity Theory U, Ambiguity Extract from introduction In Foucauldian organization studies, a shift of emphasis has taken place from …

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Edizione Efesto Archeologia del presente è una nuova collana che prova a contaminare pensiero e racconto, cronaca e archivio, giornalismo filosofico e urgenze politiche per elaborare una presa di posizione sulla realtà attuale. Questo campo di ricerca interpella i dispositivi di sapere-potere nel tempo della fine. Pensare questo tempo significa comprendere ciò che resta – …

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Par-delà le principe de répression. Dix leçons sur l’abolitionnisme pénal, Flammarion, 2025 « Tout interroger, tout bousculer, tout refonder, et produire, à partir de là, quelque chose comme une désorientation générale de nos sens, une transformation des affects que nous sommes souvent conduits à éprouver lorsque nous sommes victimes ou témoins d’une …

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Urošević, Milan. 2024. “Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism.” Philosophy and Society https://doi.org/10.2298/FID240220005U ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and the phenomena of “therapy culture”. We define therapy culture as a consequence of the spread of ideas, discourses, and practices from psychology and psychotherapy into various realms of society. Previous …

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Bufkin, S. The hunger strike as a biopolitical technology: re-reading the 1981 Irish republican prison protest (2024) Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2024.2405584 Abstract This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their commitment to good government. …

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Daniel Whistler and Mark Sinclair, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2024 -A rich and authoritative guide to French philosophy since 1800 -No other book gives such broad coverage of modern French philosophy -Discusses the ideas in their historical context -Written by an international team of specialists in French philosophy …

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Miotto, M. & Daflon, Alessandra (eds.) (2024). Corpo, vida e biopolítica: encontros extensionistas em torno de Michel Foucault. Cachoeirinha: Editora Fi. Open access O livro que o leitor tem em mãos é resultado do I e II Encontro de Estudos sobre Michel Foucault, eventos nacionais ocorridos em 2020-2021 e organizados pelo projeto de extensão da …

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