Foucault News

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

Shelza Jalan, The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Dam and the shifting grounds of resistance, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Volume 12, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102118 Abstract: The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP), India’s largest hydropower initiative in Northeast India, exemplifies the tensions between state-led developmentalism and civil society resistance in ecologically fragile regions. While envisioned as a cornerstone …

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Antti Saari, Nelli Piattoeva, and Katja Brøgger. (2026). Introduction: Critical times? Conditions, constraints, and cooptions in contemporary educational critique. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2611004 Extract In educational research, various conceptions of critique and criticality serve as markers for distinct genres of scholarship and writing, as well as for particular types of journals and monographs …

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Svetlana Racanović, (2024). Art in a Glass Box: Phantasies, Disasters and Shelters in the (Post-)Human Zoo. Život umjetnosti, 115 (2), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2024.115.07 Open access Abstract Whether experiencing the oppressive “Rules for the Human Zoo” as inspected by Sloterdijk or “long shadows” of Foucauldian disciplinary-biopolitical society or/and being situated within the Deleuzian society of control, we …

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William Guschwan (2026). The Iliad as Leadership Curriculum: A Mythopoeic Framework Through LARP. In: Thomas, A., Meyer, M., Zank, M. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG: Joint International Conference on Serious Games 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16243. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10518-9_30 Abstract This paper proposes a live action role-playing game (LARP) curriculum that unites philosophical …

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Stephanie Assmann, Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan Nourishing National Identity, Routledge, 2025 Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This …

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Neo Xia, The Material Metamorphosis of Neon Symbols and the Reconstruction of Power: A Media Topology Study from Industrial Relics to Digital Simulacra, Southern Semiotic Review, Issue 22 2025(ii) http://doi.org/10.33234/SSR.22.1 Abstract This study redefines neon lighting as a dynamic semiotic infrastructure that reflects the interplay of material constraints, media architectures, and power mechanisms. By tracing …

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Federico Soldani, “Mr. President, are you crazy?”: The New York Times calls for an “intervention” on the “mad king” Trump, echoing the scene of George III — last king of America — at the origins of psychiatry. When politics is constructed for the public as a psychiatric spectacle. Blog post. PsyPolitics. A blog about the …

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Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, and Patrick ffrench (2025). The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history. History of the Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251371976 Abstract This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolved through three …

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Ana Crespo-Solana, Ships Arriving at Ports and Tales of Shipwrecks: Heterotopia and Seafaring, 16th to 18th Centuries. Heritage. 2025; 8(10):411. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8100411 Abstract The objective of this article is to provide a critical analysis of maritime heterotopia as a category for reinterpreting ships, shipwrecks and maritime landscapes between the 16th and 18th centuries. Through an interdisciplinary …

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