Foucault News

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

Koempel, A. (2025). “We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”: The jobification of United States healthcare. Human Organization, 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2025.2519790 Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of “jobification” to examine how primary care medicine has transformed from a perceived calling into mechanistic, profit-driven work. Through qualitative research with family physicians in the United …

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PDF of CFP in English PDF of CFP in Spanish Círculo de Estudios Foucaultianos Call for Papers II INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 50 YEARS OF ‘SURVEILLANCE AND PUNISHMENT’ November 25 and 26, 2025 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos [National University of San Marcos], Lima, Peru Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison …

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Thibaud, E. (2025). Reflections on techno-solutionism in education: Manifestations and causes. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2528852 Abstract Techno-solutionism refers to the belief that many of society’s ills can and should be solved by technology. This paper explores the ways techno-solutionism manifests itself in the field of education: for the past few decades, each new …

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 26.09.2025, 9:00h-13:00h (Graz local time) Link: https://unimeet.uni-graz.at/b/dus-xkx-sud-m3y Digital Archives as Spaces for Collaborative Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz, Elisabethstraße 59/III +43 316 380 -2292 dh@uni-graz.at https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at/de/ PDF Flyer In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have been discussing …

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Leo McCann et al eds, Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies, Edward Elgar, 2025. [Ed: Several chapters cite Foucault] This expansive Encyclopedia provides a detailed overview of Critical Management Studies (CMS). This exciting and iconoclastic area of research and scholarship has had a major impact on the academic field of business and management studies, opening …

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Vincent Pak, Queer Correctives. Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore, Bloomsbury Press, 2025 Description Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapore, Christian discourses …

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Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 Based on the French La grande Soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2016). About this book This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from setting aside the question of the State to focus on the …

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Michel Foucault. Edited by Elisabetta Basso. Binswanger and Existential Analysis General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough. Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Columbia University Press, 2025. In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss …

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APPEL À CANDIDATURES | Bourse internationale IMEC/ Centre Michel FOUCAULT 15 décembre 2025 Version PDF L’Imec et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à chercheur pour l’attribution de la 5ème Bourse internationale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault. L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Imec), préserve et met en valeur une collection exceptionnelle d’archives dédiée à l’histoire de …

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Tivadar Vervoort, “Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2025 15:1, 209-241 Abstract In his introduction to Canguilhem’s Le normal et le pathologique, Michel Foucault claims that the “question of Enlightenment” has been taken up differently …

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