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

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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Carlson, Stephen C. “The Imposition of Authorship: Michel Foucault’s Author-Function and Papias of Hierapolis on the Gospel of Mark.” Harvard Theological Review 118, no. 2 (2025): 242–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816025100680. Abstract In a famous essay, Michel Foucault introduced the term “author-function” into scholarly discourse, and later scholars of authorship in antiquity have applied the term in different …

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Maya Krishnan, (2025) “Over-intelligibility”, Political Philosophy 2(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.24931 Abstract Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet …

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Foucault Studies, Issue 38, Fall 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Foucault’s Revision of Ideology Critique Johanna Oksala Waging War, Waging Peace: The Weimar Right and Michel Foucault’s Analysis of Power in the Mirror of the Archives Philipp Kender Genealogy Between Health and Illness: On the Ambiguity of the Historical Sense in Foucault’s 1969–1970 …

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Thakur, S. Environmental crises as crises of representation: Community rights and natural resource (Mis) management in India. Jindal Global Law Review 16, 357–386 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-025-00273-3 Abstract If one has to look for the origin to diffusing environmental crises, one must look in the forests and the usurpation of its governance from communities by the developmental …

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Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but …

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Reid-Pharr, R.F. Monster in the Archive (2024) James Baldwin Review, 10 (1), pp. 21-35. DOI: 10.7227/JBR.10.2 Abstract “Monster in the Archive” asks what the presence of a figure with a massive archival presence like James Baldwin does to our understanding of the presumed “absence” or “lack” of Black subjects in American archives. Paying careful attention …

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Sheehey, B. Between a scalpel and a touch, or, Foucault’s ways of writing the dead (2023) Diacritics, 51 (3), pp. 8-29. DOI: 10.1353/dia.2023.a938173 Abstract This essay draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on his writing practice to develop a reading of his historical inquiries as exercises of what I call “death-writing.” Death-writing is a type of …

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Mills, J., & Thue Bjørndal, C. (2025). Endurance running coaching’s mechanical topography: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of coaches’ knowledges. Sports Coaching Review, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2025.2541142 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was part of a French revolution of history seeking deeper understandings of history beyond narratives of “great men” and their events. As a historian of the body and …

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