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

Shakib Zarbighalehhammami, Exploring the Comprehensive Surveillance Strategies of the Iranian Government to Control Women’s Attire Post the Women, Life, Freedom Movement, Sexuality, Gender & Policy, Volume 8, Issue 3 e70011, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.70011 ABSTRACT The comprehensive surveillance system, expanded today through technology, provides a more precise form of monitoring and control over citizens, enabling a unified …

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living. Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying our modern experience of politics. Today’s global health crisis acts as a stark reminder that life …

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Call for Abstracts: Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene H-Announce link We are pleased to announce a forthcoming edited volume, Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene. The volume will bring together original scholarship that examines the relationship between cinema and the Anthropocene from a variety of perspectives. It is intended as a resource …

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Call for Presentations Addressing Interior Violences International Conference. The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in the construction of violence …

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Anna Terwiel, Prison Abolition for Realists, University of Minnesota Press, December 2025 Forthcoming Description A lucid guide to the radical politics of prison abolitionists There is growing recognition that mass incarceration is unjust and undemocratic, but prison abolition continues to be dismissed as naïve, idealistic, and out of touch with reality. Anna Terwiel challenges this …

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Garruzzo, A. (2025). History and the Will to Power: Foucault and Nietzsche on Genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70010 ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in genealogy among social and political philosophers. I argue, however, that this growing literature has tended to obscure what distinguishes genealogy as an approach to …

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Michel Foucault, Les hermaphrodites Édition d’Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Arianna Sforzini. Préface d’Arianna Sforzini, postface d’Éric Fassin Collection Bibliothèque des Histoires. Gallimard 2025 En 1978, Michel Foucault annonce un volume de son Histoire de la sexualité « consacré aux hermaphrodites ». Avec la réorientation de son enquête vers l’Antiquité, il y a renoncé. Demeure dans ses …

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Palti Elias J. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. The Seeley Lectures. Cambridge University Press; 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. …

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Khan, S. R., Kelly, P., & Brown, S. (2025). The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2515021 ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 …

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