Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité. Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972, Vrin 2025 Édition, introduction et apparat critique par Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Orazio Irrera. Présentation Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la conception de la vérité qui est aujourd’hui celle de la civilisation occidentale? Tel est …

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Announcing the official launch of the Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Announcement in French and English Description Michel Foucault moved in with Daniel Defert at 285 rue de Vaugirard (Paris 15th arrondissement) at the beginning of …

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Hegde, S. (2025). Testing the limits of statism: concluding reflections on migrations and Borderlands. Asian Ethnicity, 26(4), 800–816. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2025.2524539 ABSTRACT My effort is to come to terms with the double logic implicating the dynamics of the phenomena of migrations and borderlands, both as framed by the ethnographies collected herein and the larger rubric of borderland …

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Murray, C., Butler, P., Ó Gallchóir, C., & Salokangas, M. (2025). Tensions that stultify education: school principals reflecting on their professional relationships. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2025.2524799 ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationships that principals identify as most significant to their leadership and how these shape their professional identities. Drawing on Foucault’s …

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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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