Foucault News

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

Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi, (2025). Pastoral Power: Perspectives on the Present. Theory, Culture & Society, Online 26 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251397525 Open access Abstract This introduction to this special section of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the formation of power that Michel Foucault – in a number of texts and lectures from the late …

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Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli, Constanza Parra, Artur da Rosa Pires, The politics of possibility in just transitions: A Foucauldian reading, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 129, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104375 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s notions of power, knowledge, governmentality, and biopolitics, we explore the epistemological and ontological foundations of just transition discourses. Current hegemonic conceptualizations of …

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Georgios Tsagdis, Anthropocene Anarchives, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2025.0620 Abstract The essay pursues Deleuze’s reading of Foucault in order to elicit a fourfold of anarchival virtualities that trouble and destabilise the constitution of every archive. This thematisation of the anarchival is critical in an age that orders life relentlessly, arranging and …

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Phillip Joy, Meredith Bessey, and Linda Mann “I Believe in Santa Claus” and Ozempic: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Holiday Health Advertising. Qualitative Health Research. First published online June 19, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251350876 Open access Abstract This study examines the weight-related discourses in holiday advertising for Ozempic, a prescription drug originally developed for diabetes management but …

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Huseyin Caliskan, Ustuner Birben & Sezgin Ozden, Shifting Priorities: How Amendments in Forestry Law Impact Resource Management, the Case of Türkiye. Environmental Management 76, 13 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02308-w Abstract In Türkiye, where nearly all forests are publicly owned, the government exercises substantial authority over forest management and utilization. This study examines how legislative and regulatory changes …

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Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking October 2025, Volume 108, Number 4 Editor: Fraser McBride Advisory Editors Paul A. Roth and Matteo Vagelli Contents: Does Entity Realism Hold Up? — Lydia Patton Scientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work — Oscar Westerblad and Henk W. de Regt Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophical Technology, and …

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Ilaria Santoemma, From Pervasive Technologies to Technology of the Self. A Counter-Subjectivation argument for a Shift in the Critical Theory of Cyberspace, Soft Power, pp. 49-68 Issue 22 (11,2) July-December 2024 https://doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2024.11.2.3 Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the discourse on the intersection of power dynamics and subjectivation processes as explored in critical theory, …

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Carr, M. Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites. Journal of Business Ethics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06055-0 Abstract This article critically examines the discourse of ‘bring your whole self to work’ within the diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) narratives of investment banks. While inclusion is …

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Alex Dubilet, Foucault, Our Contemporary, boundary 2 (2025) 52 (4): 7–48 https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-11938189 Abstract In fall 1978, Michel Foucault proposes political spirituality as a prism for understanding the Iranian uprising’s contravention of modernity’s secular coordinates, thus continuing the chain of conceptualization begun earlier that year with counter‐conduct and the critical attitude. But in extricating the facticity …

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Bala, M., Singh, S. When elephants fight back: Animal standpoint reading of Nirmal Ghosh’s Novella River Storm (2024) Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 14 (1), pp. 9-25. Cited 1 time. DOI: 10.1386/fict_00093_1 Abstract Drawing inspiration from Geoffrey Whitehall’s article titled ‘“When they fight back”: A cinematic archive of animal resistance and world wars’, this …

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