Foucault Studies. Issue 40, Fall 2026 Open access This issue contains a special section entitled Contributions from the Foucault Circle, a little-known interview with Michel Foucault from 1983, two original articles, and a review essay. Editorial pp. iii-v DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00042 Special Section: Contributions from the Foucault Circle Vilde Lid Aavitsland, Adam Herpolsheimer, Elena Vasiliou pp. …
Two Decades of Climate Governmentality Studies Introduction Florian Steig, Eva Lövbrand, Angela Oels, Jonathan Barnes, Diana Eriksson Lagerqvist, Marie Fischer, Jennifer Gabrys, Aarti Gupta, Maarten Hajer, Phoebe Hamilton Jones, Maria Jernnäs, Cecilia Oliveira, Jeroen Oomen, Johannes Stripple, The Show Must Go On? Revisiting the Script of International Climate Cooperation Ten Years After Paris. Global Environmental …
Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum’s 48th annual session Cittàdi Castello, Italy, Jul 6-24, with the participants conference taking place July 4 and 5, 2026 PDF of poster Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by …
Etienne Balibar, Sur la catastrophe informatique : une fin de l’historicité ?, Les temps qui restent, 4 March 2024 La catastrophe digitale en cours fait des humains des inforgs, des organismes configurés et traités par l’informatique. Cela reconfigure les relations de pouvoir, de travail, et de production et circulation du symbolique : ce sont des conséquences anthropologiques. Elles …
Donna M. Goldstein & Magdalena E. Stawkowski, Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk, Journal of the History of Biology (Published: 19 March 2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09851-0 Abstract This paper explores the complexities of extrapolating insect data to understand nuclear exposure effects on humans. Within radiation research, animal studies are …
Milena Tekeste, Mustafa F. Özbilgin (2026), Misrecognition and Responsibilisation in Extreme Events: Towards Recognition-based Accountability in Academia. British Journal of Management, 37: e70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.70032 Abstract This essay interrogates how extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disasters, and political conflict, amplify structural inequalities in academia. Drawing on critical autoethnographic material from an Early Career Researcher …
Alex Midlen, Rethinking environmental governance for development: the blue œconomy dispositif, Political Geography, Volume 126, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103494 Abstract: The Blue Economy is a recent development paradigm, created in response to a refocusing of sustainable development during preparations for the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 2012 in which the ‘green economy’ was proposed. Coastal …
Shelza Jalan, The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Dam and the shifting grounds of resistance, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Volume 12, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102118 Abstract: The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP), India’s largest hydropower initiative in Northeast India, exemplifies the tensions between state-led developmentalism and civil society resistance in ecologically fragile regions. While envisioned as a cornerstone …
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 …
Clare O’Farrell: I have added the following statement to the About page on Foucault News. Statement about generative AI I do not support the outsourcing of research and writing to generative AI. This is sometimes (often) very hard to detect. If you notice posts on work that falls into this category, please let me know. …
