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 …
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 …
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 …
Call for Papers Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory Date: 17-19 June, 2026 Location: Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven) Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia) Deadline Call for Papers: 31 January, 2026 PDF of call for papers As new forms of exclusion and colonialism are emerging and old …
Le thermomètre de Foucault Journée d’étude 9 Janvier 2026 09:00 – 18:00 École normale supérieure – PSL 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 2e étage, salle Théodule Ribot, U209 Grégoire Chamayou (CNRS-ENS Paris), Frédéric Keck (CNRS-EHESS Paris) et Jean-Claude Monod (CNRS-ENS Paris) Dans sa généalogie des savoirs biopolitiques, Michel Foucault a beaucoup parlé des milieux mais peu …
Foucault Studies, Issue 38, Fall 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Foucault’s Revision of Ideology Critique Johanna Oksala Waging War, Waging Peace: The Weimar Right and Michel Foucault’s Analysis of Power in the Mirror of the Archives Philipp Kender Genealogy Between Health and Illness: On the Ambiguity of the Historical Sense in Foucault’s 1969–1970 …
Leonard D’Cruz, What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe, Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251379790 Abstract: Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contemporary politics of death. However, it is not clear that Mbembe succeeds in (a) demonstrating the …
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 …
Johnson, J. M. (2024). The Biopolitics of Liberal War: Humanity, Temporality and Cosmology. Millennium, 53(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241288171 Abstract What is the relationship between war and liberalism? Over the last two decades, an extensive and influential literature inspired by Michel Foucault’s conception of biopolitics has argued that the ‘war on terror’ is defined by distinctly liberal …
Sorace, C. (2025). Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China. Political Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251323747 Abstract China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic could be described as a lesson directly from the pages of Foucault. For nearly three years, China’s vast state apparatus and society were mobilized around the goal of protecting life until November 2023, when people …
