Foucault News

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

Martinson, M. Lutheran secularism as a challenge for constructive theology: A Swedish perspective, a foucauldian proposal (2017) Dialog, 56 (3), pp. 233-243. DOI: 10.1111/dial.12334 Abstract In this article the Swedish Lutheran heritage is discussed in relation to its historical connections with secularism. The question is raised whether and how constructive and liberating Lutheran theology can …

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Bilge Akbalik, The modern drama of coup d’etat and systems of discipline: Foucault and political ceremony (2017) Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55, pp. 173-179. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12232 Abstract The objective of my comments is to draw attention to the complex relationship between the juridico-political model of sovereignty and disciplinary power in Foucault’s work. I suggest that Elden’s …

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Il “campo”, il razzismo di stato, Archeologia Filosofica Open access journal Politiche di morte e governo della vita, II Paolo Vernaglione Berardi The last decrees imposed by national governments in EU (Italy, East Europe countries) represent the limit of governmentality. The adopted paradigm of the restrictive laws against the migrants coming from Libia, in facts …

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Le foucaldien. Open access journal along Foucauldian lines Update November 2025. Le foucaldien is now GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE (G+C) About this Journal The peer-reviewed open access journal Le foucaldien publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) in English, German, and French. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy credits Foucault with being “the author most frequently cited in …

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materiali foucaultiani volume V, number 9-10 (January-December 2016) Open access Essays by Domingo Fernández Agis, Gianvito Brindisi, Mathieu Corteel, Giulia Guadagni, Manlio Iofrida, Valentina Moro, Maria Muhle TABLE OF CONTENTS Soggettivazione e assoggettamento: tra le maglie del soggetto (pp. 3-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Biopolitical Life and Its Milieu. Between Self-Preservation …

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Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn (eds), Challenging the Punitive Society, Carceral Notebooks, Volume 12, 2016, General Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. See also this announcement on Andrew T. Dilt’s blog.   TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Bernard E. Harcourt Introduction: Challenging the Punitive Society Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn Part I. Foucault and the Legacy of the …

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Frieder Vogelmann (2017). Critique as a practice of prefigurative emancipation. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 18(2), 196–214.. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2017.1359645 ABSTRACT Although the various interpretations of Foucault’s model of critique often seem to differ only in minor details, they seriously diverge by situating critique on different levels of abstraction in Foucault’s work. Mapping interpretations of Foucault’s critique …

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Ariel Handel and Hilla Dayan, Multilayered surveillance in Israel/Palestine: Dialectics of inclusive exclusion, Surveillance and Society, Vol 15 No 3/4 (2017): Surveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism Abstract The paper examines the surveillance apparatuses in Israel/Palestine as mechanisms aiming to secure support for the Israeli regime, and to preserve its domination over the entire …

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Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …

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