Foucault News

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

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco, Valentina Surace (eds.) Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions. Roberto Esposito in Dialogue with Contemporary Thinkers, SUNY Press, 2025 Description Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito’s thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration. Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions offers a …

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Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power. Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons, Edinburgh University Press, 2025. How have datasciences and neurosciences converged to create a new form of power, polity and citizenship? Proposes a theory of sensory power and re-examines theories of sovereign, disciplinary, and regulative powers Offers a revised history of datasciences …

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Laurent Olivier, The Dark Abyss of Time. Archaeology and Memory, trans. Arthur Greenspan, Bloomsbury, 2024. Description The field of archaeology continues to face a major crisis of interpretation. The traditional view is that the basic business of archaeology is to reconstruct the history of cultures and civilizations through their material productions. Olivier challenges this view …

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Aline Courtois, Simon Marginson, Catherine Montgomery, Ravinder Sidhu (eds), The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities. Power, Knowledge and Agency, Bloomsbury, 2025 Open access Description This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast-changing and crisis-ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of …

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Michel Serres, Hermes IV: Distribution. Translated by Randolph Burks. University of Minnesota Press, December 22, 2026 How order, meaning, and knowledge emerge from noise across science, literature, and philosophy Description Hermes IV: Distribution is the fourth and penultimate volume in Michel Serres’s landmark series on knowledge and communication across disciplines. This collection of essays investigates …

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Sam Galloway, (2026). Scandalous Parrhesia in Cruising Times. In: Sam Galloway, Cruising Politics: : Affect, Assemblage, Agonism . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-23431-5_4 Abstract What happens when artwork problematizes politics and politics problematizes artwork? Against the impulse to valorize agonistic insurrection as such, we examine the foment and fallout of demonstrations that erupted in New York …

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Frédéric Chauvaud, Michel Foucault. Le jardin du philosophe, Memoring, 2026 Annonce de l’auteur On connaît Michel Foucault, le philosophe mondialement célèbre. On connaît moins l’homme qui, chaque été, revenait se retirer dans la maison familiale de Vendeuvre-du-Poitou. Pendant près de trente ans, loin de Paris et de l’agitation internationale, Foucault y lit, écrit et reprend …

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur Foucault. I. Les formes du savoir. Cours octobre-décembre 1985, Paris, Minuit, 2026. Édition établie par David Lapoujade. Republished to celebrate Foucault’s centenary Lors de l’année universitaire 1985-1986, Gilles Deleuze décide de rendre hommage à la pensée de Michel Foucault, disparu en 1984, dont il fut longtemps proche et dont l’œuvre constitue à …

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Martin Mees, Isabelle Ost et Philippe Sabot (dir.), Esthétique de l’existence. Généalogies à partir de Michel Foucault, Bruxelles, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2026 Dans les dernières années de sa vie, le philosophe Michel Foucault explore dans ses cours au Collège de France comme dans ses ouvrages et entretiens une idée qui va progressivement s’imposer dans sa …

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