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 …
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 …
Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Daniele Lorenzini pp. iii-v DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00024 Critique Beyond Criticism: The Crisis and Potentials of Critique in Critical Times Sverre Raffnsøe, Daniele Lorenzini, Dorthe Staunæs, Martina Tazzioli pp. 1-25 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00025 The Pressing Task of Critique Bernard E. Harcourt, Robert Harvey, Sverre Raffnsøe pp. …
Kristina Vera-Phillips, (2025), I Would Rather Die: Postcolonial Analysis of Rebellion Speeches in Star Wars: Andor. The Journal of Popular Culture, 58: 267-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70003 ABSTRACT In Star Wars: Andor, the choice for prisoners of Narkina 5 was clear: freedom or death. Two critical speeches from the Narkina 5 prison episodes demonstrate how to disrupt the …
Hentyle Yapp, “Not To Be Governed Like This”: Ai Weiwei, Foucault, and Illiberal Representation, Public Culture, 11 February 2026. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12175774 Abstract In expressing critique, the main model for understanding the merits of such expressions is through a liberal democratic tradition with its ideas of free speech. Regardless of whether discontent is expressed through aesthetic or …
Antoinette Rouvroy, Thomas Berns, Translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht (2013). Algorithmic Governmentality and Prospects of Emancipation Disparateness as a Precondition for Individuation Through Relationships? Réseaux, No 177(1), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3917/res.177.0163. Extract The new opportunities for statistical aggregation, analysis and correlation afforded by big data are taking us away from traditional statistical perspectives focused on the average man …
Nele Jensen, Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 397, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119127. Abstract: Recent years have seen the progressive expansion of Integrative Medicine (IM) as a self-proclaimed movement of medical professionals aiming to radically re-orient medicine’s reductionist focus on disease and treatment towards a new …
İhsan Gürsoy, Can education liberate us? Reframing an old question, Journal of Philosophy of Education, February 2026 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhag002 Abstract This article reframes the question ‘Can education liberate us?’ by shifting attention from education’s capacity to produce emancipated individuals to its capacity to enable—or foreclose—liberation within the experience of subjectivation. Instead of proposing new educational theory …
Joanne Hunt, (2026). Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Disability & Society, 41(1), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2492653 Abstract Whilst myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has recently attracted high-profile media coverage, dominant accounts do not tell the whole story of how this group of disabled people came to occupy – albeit unequally – society’s …
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