The Will to Knowledge | Vesper, Spring–Summer 2026 Editorial: Sara Marini, Angela Mengoni, The Will to Knowledge Fifty years ago, Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral tradition of the 17th century progressively extended to all areas of society, marking the …
Cahier de L’Herne : Michel Foucault, Dirigé par Frédéric Gros. Avec la collaboration Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert et Judith Revel. Paris, L’Herne, 15 Octobre 2026 Première édition publiée en 2011. Republished to celebrate Foucault’s Centenary Les ouvrages de Michel Foucault ont tous été ressentis comme des provocations : Histoire de la folie a heurté la …
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. …
Tony Bennett, Habit’s Pathways: Guiding Repetition, Governing Conduct, Contested Interruptions. Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10236-x Abstract Drawing principally on the work of Michel Foucault, this paper considers how the relations between habit and repetition have been construed in the exercise of different forms of power: disciplinary, pastoral, governmental, and algorithmic, for example. …
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 12 No. 2/3 (2026) Published: 2026-09-18 In this special double issue published to celebrate Foucault’s centenary and guest edited by Shelley Lynn Tremain, readers will find six peer-reviewed articles and an interview, as well as an introduction by Tremain. In the first article, …
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 …
Lala Hajibayova, Seungmin Lee, Authorship in the age of artificial intelligence, Journal of Documentation, Volume 81, Issues 5–6, 2025, pp. 1401-1414. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2025-0109. Abstract: Purpose In this paper, the evolving boundaries between human- and machine-generated content are examined through the lens of Foucault’s (2002) conceptualizations of authorship and associated ethical considerations in the interest of ensuring quality …
Denise Mifsud, Paul Campbell and Richard Niesche (2026). School leadership and artificial intelligence: A framework for critical and reflexive engagement and enactment. Management in Education, First published online August 18, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206261475462 Abstract Recent advances in digital technologies and generative artificial intelligence are creating significant challenges for education systems and school leaders around the world. …
Michael Uebel & Bilal Hamamra, Authorship After Generative AI: Distributed Creativity and Relational Responsibility. Philosophy & Technology, 39, 152 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01170-w Abstract Generative AI exposes the historical fragility of Romantic myths of the sovereign, self-transparent writer without inaugurating a crisis of authorship itself. Tracing a genealogy from symbolic AI to large language models, we show …
Tiancheng Xia, & Yuanjing Wu (2026). A Genealogical Critique of Medicalization: From Conrad Back to Foucault. Acta Bioethica, 32(2), 193–205. https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/84796 Abstract Foucault’s genealogy is widely applied in discussions of medicalization. Critics such as Conrad have adopted Foucault’s power-knowledge analysis as a crucial tool for critiquing it. However, these critiques often tend to view medicalization …
