Timothy O’Leary, (2026). Fiction’s critique: Gray’s Poor Things and the conduct of sensibility. Textual Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2608009 ABSTRACT This essay explores how works of literary fiction contribute to the aims of critique, understood along Foucauldian lines as a transformative engagement with modes of subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, these …
Richard Wolin, (2025). Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 43(1), 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2025.430105 Abstract Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was best known for his pathbreaking forays in literary criticism: dense meditations on the abyss of literary meaning, culminating in his radical insight concerning the ontological impossibility of writing or écriture. …
Dimitri M’Bama and William Tilleczek (2026). The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation. Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251398786 Abstract Asceticism has a bad reputation in political and social theory—insofar as it has any reputation at all. If it is not ignored entirely, it tends to be aligned with either political elitism …
Eduan Breedt, Erin Tichenor & Tim Barlott (2025), Diagnosing the body in physiotherapy: the passage from discipline to control. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2025.2585138 ABSTRACT The concept of the body as a biomechanical machine was central to legitimizing physiotherapy and defining its professional identity. As society transitioned from Michel Foucault’s disciplinary formation to Gilles …
Édison Flávio Fernandes & Alice Casimiro Lopes (2025) When data speaks, what issues are silenced? Evidence, statistics, and curriculum. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33(86). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.9195 Abstract: This paper presents a discussion that operates within the tension between deconstructionist philosophy—centered on the event as a rupture of stable meanings—and statistical practices in education, which seek to …
Steven Maynard, Michel and Mathurin: Finding Foucault in the Archives, Archivaria 100 (Fall/Winter 2025): 44-73 https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14061 Abstract In this article, we follow Foucault into the archives. Foucault spent much of his working life reading and researching in libraries and archives, and yet he most often figures in the archival literature as the creator of the …
Matteo Polleri, “From Adversity to Heresy: Towards a Disjunctive Conjunction of Foucault and Marx.” Genealogy+Critique 11, no. 1 (2025): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.23083 Open access Abstract Over the last decades, influential critical thinkers have creatively mobilized Foucault’s ideas to renovate the Marxist lens. However, while recognizing key proximities between Marx’s and Foucault’s works, Étienne Balibar has argued …
Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi, (2025). Pastoral Power: Perspectives on the Present. Theory, Culture & Society, Online 26 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251397525 Open access Abstract This introduction to this special section of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the formation of power that Michel Foucault – in a number of texts and lectures from the late …
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 …
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