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

Xenofontos, C. (2025). Mathematical heterotopias: lessons from other-ed spaces for the mainstream classroom. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2508715 ABSTRACT Many mathematics classrooms worldwide often adhere to rigid, traditional practices that may serve some students effectively but risk disengaging others. In this paper, I draw on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to introduce the notion …

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Essien, Essien Oku. 2025. “Climate Change Disinformation on Social Media: A Meta-Synthesis on Epistemic Welfare in the Post-Truth Era” Social Sciences 14, no. 5: 304. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14050304 Abstract Climate change disinformation has emerged as a substantial issue in the internet age, affecting public perceptions, policy response, and climate actions. This study, grounded on the theoretical frameworks …

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Joakim Slinning Lange, “Stemmen som fortsetter etter døden (om Henri-Paul Fruchaud (red.), Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983). In Agora. Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon, nr. 1-2, 2025 “Judith Butler”, 265-89 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/agora.43.1-2.12 40 år etter forfatterens død fortsetter det han sa og skrev, å snakke til oss. På tampen av en lang rekke posthume utgivelser fra …

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Foucault Studies, Issue 37, Spring 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial pp. iii-v DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00001 Special Section: Contributions from the Foucault Circle Lauren Guilmette, Ege Selin Islekel pp. 1-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00002 black Foucault: An Intellectual Reparations Project Taryn D. Jordan, Haylee Christine Harrell pp. 5-34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00003 On COVID and Racism as “Twin Pandemics”: …

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Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Encoding Plasticity: The Rise of Molecular Biopolitics and Human Capital, University of Toronto Quarterly 2025 94:2, 257-275 Abstract This article explores the fundamental concept of plasticity in living organisms and its complex relationship with capitalism and its datafication of life. Plasticity is presented as a crucial adaptive mechanism allowing organisms to respond …

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Shahidullah, A. K. M., & Mohiuddin, H. (2025). Indoctrinated Developmentalism and Local Sustainability: A Social–Ecological Model for Community-Based Enterprises. Sustainability, 17(9), 4181. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17094181 Abstract Developmental approaches over time have been largely economistic and overlooked local sustainability preconditions. They were greatly influenced by a host of doctrines, theories, and strategies argued through macro-level, macro-scale policies. This …

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Michel Senellart, Oikonomia et regimen. À propos d’une critique de M. Foucault par G. Agamben, Laval théologique et philosophique, Volume 79, Number 3, 2023, p. 355–368 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1107500ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1107500ar Résumé Cet article propose une réponse à la critique adressée par G. Agamben, dans Le Règne et la Gloire (2008), à la généalogie foucaldienne de la gouvernementalité. …

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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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