Foucault News

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

Asad L. Asad, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, Princeton University Press, 2023. Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex …

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Jeffrey Whyte, The Birth of Psychological War. Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War. Oxford University Press, 2023 Open access Description The Birth of Psychological War explores the history, politics, and geography of United States psychological warfare in the 20th century against the backdrop of the contemporary ‘post-truth era’. From its …

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Sam Binkley, Against White Interiority. A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial …

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Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book ​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …

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Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature, de Gruyter, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 About this book This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken …

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Eugene B. Young, Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power. Deleuze via Blanchot, Bloomsbury, 2022 Description Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze’s thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining …

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Fan Yang, Habermas, Foucault and the Political-Legal Discussions in China. A Discourse on Law and Democracy, Springer 2022 About this book This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context. After arguing that Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy is too normative and idealistic, it presents Foucault’s Discourse Theory …

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Luca Sciortino, History of Rationalities. Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of ‘ways of thinking’. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking’s idea of ‘style of reasoning’ …

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Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, 3rd Edition, Polity, 2023 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and …

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