Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society A Reappraisal, Routledge, 2026 This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, tensions, inconsistencies, and transformations in Foucault’s work, the book shows how, in Foucault’s later years, his ideas gradually converged toward a conception of …
Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities. A new peer-reviewed, open access journal launching in 2027 in Kyoto, Japan. The inaugural special issue, will be the ‘The Birth of Michel Foucault (La naissance de Michel Foucault) a volume marking the centenary of his birth. The call for papers has just opened. Frontier Ethics: A Journal …
Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault. A Virtual Force Ontology, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 Christopher Penfield illuminates the philosophical encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, developing the first systematic treatment of Deleuze’s book Foucault, originally published in 1986. Using the full spectrum of Foucault’s primary texts, as well as new insights and analysis from Deleuze’s recently …
Rosario Palese, 2026. “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge” Societies 16, no. 3: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16030102 Abstract This article examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reconfiguring truth regimes in digital societies, introducing the concept of “Artificial Truth” to describe an emerging form of epistemic governance where knowledge production …
Shai Gortler, 2026. “Foucault and the Prisons Information Group’s Counter-subjectivation.” Philosophy and Society 37 (1): 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2601173G Abstract Between February 1971 and December 1972, Michel Foucault co-founded and was an active member of the Prisons Information Group (Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, hereafter GIP). Through demonstrations, direct action, and publications, the GIP sought to intervene …
Foukenstein is a conversational performance that gives voice to an artificial figure freely inspired by Michel Foucault. Starting from a written question, the dispositif produces a spoken response by combining text generation, the mobilization of theoretical references, short-term memory, and speech synthesis. It does not seek to simulate Foucault, nor to offer a faithful incarnation …
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. …
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