Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy. Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power, SUNY Press, November 2026 Description Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles and his engagement with Marxism. Michel Foucault has exerted enormous influence on our understanding of power and penal systems, above all with his work Discipline …
Call for papers: Panels for annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in 2027 Abstracts are due 30 September 2026. The 58th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Newport, Rhode Island, USA on March 6-9, 2027. There are a number of panels of interest to Foucault scholars and others working in the …
Daniele Lorenzini, How Foucault Changed My Life. Guest post on Shelley Tremain’s blog, Biopolitical Philosophy, 13 July 2026 I first encountered the work of Michel Foucault twenty years ago. It was March 2006, and I was a second-year undergraduate student at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. On a rainy winter day, …
Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide. A Genealogy of the Fantasy of the West, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 About this book Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology. Fueled by the settler colonial imaginary, the logic of “speciation” inevitably …
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless …
Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum’s 48th annual session Cittàdi Castello, Italy, Jul 6-24, with the participants conference taking place July 4 and 5, 2026 PDF of poster Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by …
Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry, Minor Compositions, 2026 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and …
Jonathan Fanara, « Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault » : les demeures de la pensée, LeMagduCiné, 27 mai 2026 Avec Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault, les Presses universitaires de Rennes prennent le parti d’explorer le philosophe français à travers Poitiers, Vendeuvre et Verrue. Le livre transforme ces lieux de vie en véritables chambres …
Frédéric Chauvaud, Irène Le Roy Ladurie, Jean-Luc Terradillos, Henri-Paul Fruchaud (préface), Benoît Hamet (illustration-photographie), Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2026) Né à Poitiers, Michel Foucault, philosophe de la folie, de l’archéologie des sciences humaines, du crime, du pouvoir, de la sexualité et de bien d’autres domaines, est l’auteur d’une oeuvre …
