Foucault News

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

Ruixun Dai, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas, and Shaun Rawolle. 2025. “Revisiting Foucault’s Panopticon: How Does AI Surveillance Transform Educational Norms?” British Journal of Sociology of Education 46 (5): 650–68 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2501118 Abstract This article applies Foucault’s theories of surveillance, disciplinary power, and normalisation to examine the shifting power dynamics in AI-mediated education. Drawing on qualitative responses …

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Christophe Bouton, The problem of the transcendental from Kant to Hegel. The young Foucault’s interpretation of the “Phenomenology of Spirit” in his 1949 mémoire. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. First published: 13 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.70043 Abstract In this paper, I explore the young Foucault’s engagement with phenomenology in his master’s thesis, The Constitution of a …

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Rubén Alepuz Cintas, Molecular Biopolitics and Biological Citizenship: Towards a New Configuration of Power over Life. (2026). Tábano, 27, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.2026.5394 Article in Spanish Abstract This article analyzes the evolution of the concept of biopolitics from Michel Foucault to Nikolas Rose, with a particular focus on molecular biopolitics and biological citizenship. It examines how contemporary …

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Appel à contributions: Regards sur le « nouveau droit » foucaldien – | Call for papers: Perspectives on the Foucauldian « New Law » PDF of Call for papers […] As part of the publication of thematic issues, the open-access legal journal Lex Electronica invites those interested in exploring the theme of the “new Foucauldian …

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Emmanuel Le Doeuff, Les thèses annotées de Michel Foucault sont désormais en ligne sur Numerabilis, Panacée, 7 mai 2026 https://doi.org/10.58079/166xv Comme nous l’indiquions dans un billet précédent1, les trois volumes de la thèse principale de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ainsi que les deux volumes de sa thèse complémentaire sont conservés à la BU Henri-Piéron. Intitulées respectivement …

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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 …

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Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities. A new peer-reviewed, open access journal launching in 2027 in Kyoto, Japan. The inaugural special issue, will be the ‘The Birth of Michel Foucault (La naissance de Michel Foucault) a volume marking the centenary of his birth. The call for papers has just opened. Frontier Ethics: A Journal …

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Rosario Palese, 2026. “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge” Societies 16, no. 3: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16030102 Abstract This article examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reconfiguring truth regimes in digital societies, introducing the concept of “Artificial Truth” to describe an emerging form of epistemic governance where knowledge production …

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Shai Gortler, 2026. “Foucault and the Prisons Information Group’s Counter-subjectivation.” Philosophy and Society 37 (1): 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2601173G Abstract Between February 1971 and December 1972, Michel Foucault co-founded and was an active member of the Prisons Information Group (Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, hereafter GIP). Through demonstrations, direct action, and publications, the GIP sought to intervene …

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Amin Zaini, 2026. Introducing noise cleansing: reading real-time censorship ambivalently. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2670699 ABSTRACT While censorship is often conceptualised as a retrospective and regulated practice, this study examines it as a real-time process of speech interruption and an under-explored dimension of contemporary surveillance. It foregrounds how silencing unfolds dynamically during the circulation …

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