Foucault News

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

Svetlana Racanović, (2024). Art in a Glass Box: Phantasies, Disasters and Shelters in the (Post-)Human Zoo. Život umjetnosti, 115 (2), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2024.115.07 Open access Abstract Whether experiencing the oppressive “Rules for the Human Zoo” as inspected by Sloterdijk or “long shadows” of Foucauldian disciplinary-biopolitical society or/and being situated within the Deleuzian society of control, we …

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Neo Xia, The Material Metamorphosis of Neon Symbols and the Reconstruction of Power: A Media Topology Study from Industrial Relics to Digital Simulacra, Southern Semiotic Review, Issue 22 2025(ii) http://doi.org/10.33234/SSR.22.1 Abstract This study redefines neon lighting as a dynamic semiotic infrastructure that reflects the interplay of material constraints, media architectures, and power mechanisms. By tracing …

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Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, and Patrick ffrench (2025). The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history. History of the Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251371976 Abstract This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolved through three …

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Ana Crespo-Solana, Ships Arriving at Ports and Tales of Shipwrecks: Heterotopia and Seafaring, 16th to 18th Centuries. Heritage. 2025; 8(10):411. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8100411 Abstract The objective of this article is to provide a critical analysis of maritime heterotopia as a category for reinterpreting ships, shipwrecks and maritime landscapes between the 16th and 18th centuries. Through an interdisciplinary …

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Anjela Mikhaylova, Sara Wilford, Bernd Stahl, Laurence Brooks, Smart Doorbells in a Surveillance Society, Ethical and Social Impacts of Information and Communication Technology: 22nd International Conference, ETHICOMP 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 17–19, 2025, Proceedings pp. 451 – 463 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01429-0_39 Abstract Smart doorbells, promoted as tools of convenience and peace of mind, extend far beyond their …

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Timothy O’Leary, (2026). Fiction’s critique: Gray’s Poor Things and the conduct of sensibility. Textual Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2608009 ABSTRACT This essay explores how works of literary fiction contribute to the aims of critique, understood along Foucauldian lines as a transformative engagement with modes of subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, these …

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Richard Wolin, (2025). Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 43(1), 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2025.430105 Abstract Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was best known for his pathbreaking forays in literary criticism: dense meditations on the abyss of literary meaning, culminating in his radical insight concerning the ontological impossibility of writing or écriture. …

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Dimitri M’Bama and William Tilleczek (2026). The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation. Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251398786 Abstract Asceticism has a bad reputation in political and social theory—insofar as it has any reputation at all. If it is not ignored entirely, it tends to be aligned with either political elitism …

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Eduan Breedt, Erin Tichenor & Tim Barlott (2025), Diagnosing the body in physiotherapy: the passage from discipline to control. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2025.2585138 ABSTRACT The concept of the body as a biomechanical machine was central to legitimizing physiotherapy and defining its professional identity. As society transitioned from Michel Foucault’s disciplinary formation to Gilles …

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Édison Flávio Fernandes & Alice Casimiro Lopes (2025) When data speaks, what issues are silenced? Evidence, statistics, and curriculum. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33(86). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.9195 Abstract: This paper presents a discussion that operates within the tension between deconstructionist philosophy—centered on the event as a rupture of stable meanings—and statistical practices in education, which seek to …

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