Foucault News

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

Reddy Naveen K. Redefining disease in the age of blood-based biomarkers, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1533429 Abstract This article explores the sociological and ethical implications of redefining disease in the era of advanced diagnostic technologies, with a focus on blood-based biomarkers. Drawing from Foucault’s concept of medicalization and Illich’s critique of disease mongering, …

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Yarar, B. (2025), Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War. Global Networks, 25: e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70004 ABSTRACT Over the past decade and more, many countries in the Middle East and Africa have experienced significant disruptions in their social and institutional life due to the rise …

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Baciu, Elena-Loreni , Lazăr, Theofild-Andrei , Totan, Raluca Iunia, Social goals under a neoliberal agenda: measures to promote equality in European higher education read through a Foucauldian lens, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10, 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1492863 Abstract In this study we draw on Foucault’s work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and …

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Ridgway, V. (2025). Conspiracy theories and Geography: Who gets to say where is power? Dialogues in Human Geography https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251316008 Abstract Conspiracism has become a powerful explanatory category for major political events (Brexit vote, January 6th Capitol attack) and the subject of a diverse body of research. Yet geography has largely ignored such debates and has, …

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Gretzky, M., & Dishon, G. (2025). Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2452196 ABSTRACT The emergence of large language models (LLMs) that generate human-like texts has raised questions about the boundaries between human-authored and machine-generated outputs. This article examines how LLMs are re-shaping academic …

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Newman, S. (2024). Fugitive Truth: Renewing the Public Sphere in the Age of Post-Truth. Javnost – The Public, 31(3), 327–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2383904 Abstract In the sixty years since the publication of Jürgen Habermas’ magnum opus, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the public sphere now faces a new threat in the era of “post-truth” politics. …

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Xu, P., & Ritchie, J. Neoliberalism, citizenship, and young children: Exploring discursive constructions of citizenship in early childhood curricula in China and Aotearoa New Zealand. (2025) Global Studies of Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241311639 Abstract As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children’s citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article …

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Friedmann, V., & Marton, P. (2025). Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2442433 Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic made biopolitical decisions, including on vaccine approval, a subject of public discussion, challenging governmental legitimacy at the level of …

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Tavani, E. (2025). The Selfie and the Low-Resolution Self: Beyond Foucault’s Technologies of the Self. Itinera, (28). https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/27832 Abstract The article discusses Foucault’s «technologies of the self» by reconsidering the link between ethics and aesthetics in this paradigm, with a view to its possible application to selfie technology as a «gestural image» (Frosh). This reconsideration …

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Dent, C. (2025). Road deaths as problematisation: thanatopolitics and economised thoughts. Griffith Law Review, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2025.2452029 ABSTRACT The persistence of the road toll suggests that a new perspective may be of value – either to consider new insights to reduce it, or to allow a greater acceptance of the relatively limited number of deaths. The …

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