Foucault News

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

Prozorov, S. (2023). Foucault and Agamben on Augustine, Paradise and the Politics of Human Nature. Theory, Culture & Society, 41(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221140811 (Original work published 2024) Abstract This article focuses on Foucault’s and Agamben’s readings of Augustine’s account of human nature and original sin. Foucault’s analysis of Augustine’s account of sexual acts in paradise, subordinated …

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Demelius, Y., & Yoshida, Y. (2025). Technologies of the YouTuber self: Digital vigilantism, masculinities and attention economy in neoliberal Japan. Global Crime, 26(2), 120–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2025.2451833 ABSTRACT This paper investigates YouTube vigilantism in contemporary Japan. While studies have discussed the relationship between vigilantism and the public police and technology’s role in the weaponisation of visibility, attempts …

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Lindholm, S. (2025). Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower. Philosophy & Social Criticism https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537251324164 Abstract The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim …

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Patrick Boucheron, The Archaeologist and the Historian: Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben, Translated by Matthew Collins, Journal of Italian Philosophy, Volume 8 (2025), 117 – 123 Open access Original text: Boucheron, P. (2017/1–2), ‘L’archéologue et l’historien. Dialogue avec Giorgio Agamben’, Critique, 836–37, pp. 164–71. Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/criti.836.0164 (accessed 13th August 2024). This conversation between Patrick Boucheron …

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Paolo A. Bolaños, Figurations of French Critical Theory, Kritike Volume 16 Number Four (February 2025) 128-136 DOI:10.25138/18.4.a6 Abstract: In this brief article, I merely present a schematic presentation of the “figurations” of French critical theory. I rehearse the historical and institutional circumstances of French academia that produced progressive thinkers, such as, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, …

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D’Amato, K. ChatGPT: towards AI subjectivity. AI & Society 40, 1627–1641 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01898-z Abstract Motivated by the question of responsible AI and value alignment, I seek to offer a uniquely Foucauldian reconstruction of the problem as the emergence of an ethical subject in a disciplinary setting. This reconstruction contrasts with the strictly human-oriented programme typical …

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Jones, H., Arnould, E. Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct. Journal of Business Ethics 198, 387–406 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05752-6 Abstract This paper investigates Street Fight Radio’s consumer community’s resistance to neoliberal financial consumer responsibilization. Extant scholarship critiques consumer responsibilization on ethical grounds for placing too much responsibility on consumers at the expense of institutional actors. …

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Variyan, G., McKnight, L., & Charles, C. (2025). The subterranean masculinities of elite private boys’ schools. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2447534 ABSTRACT The #metoo movement has led to countless revelations of sexual misconduct across the globe. Schools have not been immune from such allegations and elite private boys’ schools in particular …

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Ryan, M. We’re only human after all: a critique of human-centred AI. AI & Society 40, 1303–1319 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01976-2 Abstract The use of a ‘human-centred’ artificial intelligence approach (HCAI) has substantially increased over the past few years in academic texts (1600 +); institutions (27 Universities have HCAI labs, such as Stanford, Sydney, Berkeley, and Chicago); in …

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Birtles, M. (2024). World-class education for the few: Analysing Japan’s designated national university corporation system policy discourse. Policy Futures in Education, 23(3), 582-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241287276 (Original work published 2025) Abstract This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan’s Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames …

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