Foucault News

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

Daniele Lorenzini, The Foucauldian Mind, Routledge, Forthcoming July 2026 Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His engagement with topics such as truth, power and language continues to exert significant influence …

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Joshua Penrod, Ethics and Biopower in Neuromarketing. A Framework for an Ethical Approach to Marketing, Springer, 2023 About this book This book explores the ethical and policy implications of the use of neuroscience in marketing. Addressing emerging areas of neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience, this book offers a fresh perspective on establishing a framework for codes …

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Joanne Hunt, (2026). Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Disability & Society, 41(1), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2492653 Abstract Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy – albeit unequally – society’s …

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Joanne Hunt. Mapping the government of disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A critical feminist account. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. 2025. Vol. 5(3):332-356. https://www.doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.5.3.0004 Abstract​ People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have historically been conceptualised in health and social policy as “undeserving” of societal support, largely via a variant of biopsychosocial model …

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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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Monica Greco, Biopolitics. In Eds. Arpad Szakolczai and Paul OʼConnor, Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, Elgar, 356–359 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310494.00075 Abstract While Michel Foucault was not the first to use the term ‘biopolitics’, his formulation of this concept transformed its meaning fundamentally for subsequent generations of scholars. Through this concept, Foucault turned the tables on a tradition …

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Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? …

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Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli, Constanza Parra, Artur da Rosa Pires, The politics of possibility in just transitions: A Foucauldian reading, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 129, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104375 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s notions of power, knowledge, governmentality, and biopolitics, we explore the epistemological and ontological foundations of just transition discourses. Current hegemonic conceptualizations of …

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Georgios Tsagdis, Anthropocene Anarchives, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2025.0620 Abstract The essay pursues Deleuze’s reading of Foucault in order to elicit a fourfold of anarchival virtualities that trouble and destabilise the constitution of every archive. This thematisation of the anarchival is critical in an age that orders life relentlessly, arranging and …

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Phillip Joy, Meredith Bessey, and Linda Mann “I Believe in Santa Claus” and Ozempic: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Holiday Health Advertising. Qualitative Health Research. First published online June 19, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251350876 Open access Abstract This study examines the weight-related discourses in holiday advertising for Ozempic, a prescription drug originally developed for diabetes management but …

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