Foucault News

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

Gabriel Pochapski, Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales materiali foucaultiani, a. XI, n. 21-22, gennaio-dicembre 2022, pp. 11-46. Issue released in January 2025. Abstract Rethinking space, pluralizing time. Nietzsche’s Thought Between Foucault and the École des Annales This article aims to examine the uses of Nietzsche’s …

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Geller, P.L. In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower (2025) In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics Edited By Genevieve Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Routledge, pp. 152-166. DOI: 10.4324/9781003272311-10 Abstract This chapter explores the contradictions raised by and consequences of small plastic things forgotten that were born …

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Butchart, G.C. Poststructuralism: A Philosophy of Difference, (2025) In The Handbook of Communication Ethics. Edited By Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jason Hannan, Second Edition, Routledge, pp. 93-107. DOI: 10.4324/9781003274506-9 Abstract This chapter offers an overview of poststructuralism as relevant to media and communication ethics. Research informed by poststructuralist thinking typically emphasizes alterity over identity, …

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Liz Teston (ed), Public Interiority Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm, Routledge, 2024 Public Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field. Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 …

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Moreno-Mulet, C., Valdivielso-Navarro, J., Miró-Bonet, M., Carrero-Planells, A., Gastaldo, D. Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault’s Lessons on Resistance for Nurses (2025) Nursing Philosophy, 26 (1), art. no. e70008 DOI: 10.1111/nup.70008 Abstract In this paper, we bring together Foucault’s biography and oeuvre to explore key concepts that support the analysis of nurses’ acts of resistance. Foucault reflected …

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Open access directories A new resource page on Foucault News [Editor]: Accessing electronically published scholarly material can be difficult for those with no formal affiliation to a university – and this includes former long-standing staff members. Even people working within the system can run into problems of access for a variety of reasons. This is …

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Hiba, B. If you don’t problematize it, you won’t see it, and you won’t understand it (2025) New Ideas in Psychology, 77, art. no. 101141 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101141 Abstract This paper critically redefines problematization as both a research method and a transformative approach to critical thinking, positioning it as a pivotal modus operandi that transcends the …

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Shelley Lynn Tremain, Ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and …

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Zaharijević, A., & Urošević, M. (2024). Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241284544 Abstract The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific period of his work, situated between the disciplinary phase and the beginning …

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