Foucault News

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

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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Barker, D., Quennerstedt, M. Power and group work in physical education: A Foucauldian perspective (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 339-353. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15620716 Abstract Group work is used in physical education (PE) to encourage student-directed, collaborative learning. Aligned with this aim, group work is expected to shift some power from teacher to students …

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Öhman, M. Losing touch – Teachers’ self-regulation in physical education (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 297-310. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15622159 Abstract The question of physical interaction is especially relevant in school physical education, where a lot of the teaching and activities are based on body movements. However, the issue of ‘touching’ has been questioned …

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Silverman, D.L. Boundaries: Bourgeois Belgium and “tentacular” modernism (2017) Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244317000245 Abstract The sweep, originality, and plenitude of Jerrold Seigel’s work have transformed our field. His prolific and creative scholarship encompasses the history of ideas, the history of cultural forms, and the history of intellectuals, areas typically …

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