Giorgi Vachnadze, Genealogies of Formal Systems. Substack (2025-) Giorgi Vachnadze is a writer and researcher focused on Foucault and Wittgenstein, working at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, and contemporary issues such as AI, education policy, and algorithmic governance. Recent posts include: Ἑαυτοῦ Ἡνίοχος: Piloting the Self Liberating the Care of the Self from Plato …
Steven Maynard, Michel and Mathurin: Finding Foucault in the Archives, Archivaria 100 (Fall/Winter 2025): 44-73 https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14061 Abstract In this article, we follow Foucault into the archives. Foucault spent much of his working life reading and researching in libraries and archives, and yet he most often figures in the archival literature as the creator of the …
Paul Flaig, ‘From the Tramp to Trump: On Sovereignty and Screen Comedy’, in William V. Costanzo, and Peter C. Kunze (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, Oxford Handbooks (2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Aug. 2025) https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197675502.013.0026 Abstract In recent years, critics and scholars have anxiously observed that the subversive force of satire, jokes, …
Matteo Polleri, “From Adversity to Heresy: Towards a Disjunctive Conjunction of Foucault and Marx.” Genealogy+Critique 11, no. 1 (2025): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.23083 Open access Abstract Over the last decades, influential critical thinkers have creatively mobilized Foucault’s ideas to renovate the Marxist lens. However, while recognizing key proximities between Marx’s and Foucault’s works, Étienne Balibar has argued …
Monica Greco, Biopolitics. In Eds. Arpad Szakolczai and Paul OʼConnor, Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, Elgar, 356–359 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310494.00075 Abstract While Michel Foucault was not the first to use the term ‘biopolitics’, his formulation of this concept transformed its meaning fundamentally for subsequent generations of scholars. Through this concept, Foucault turned the tables on a tradition …
Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi, (2025). Pastoral Power: Perspectives on the Present. Theory, Culture & Society, Online 26 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251397525 Open access Abstract This introduction to this special section of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the formation of power that Michel Foucault – in a number of texts and lectures from the late …
Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? …
Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli, Constanza Parra, Artur da Rosa Pires, The politics of possibility in just transitions: A Foucauldian reading, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 129, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104375 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s notions of power, knowledge, governmentality, and biopolitics, we explore the epistemological and ontological foundations of just transition discourses. Current hegemonic conceptualizations of …
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Georgios Tsagdis, Anthropocene Anarchives, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2025.0620 Abstract The essay pursues Deleuze’s reading of Foucault in order to elicit a fourfold of anarchival virtualities that trouble and destabilise the constitution of every archive. This thematisation of the anarchival is critical in an age that orders life relentlessly, arranging and …
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