Foucault News

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

Le foucaldien. Open access journal along Foucauldian lines Update November 2025. Le foucaldien is now GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE (G+C) About this Journal The peer-reviewed open access journal Le foucaldien publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) in English, German, and French. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy credits Foucault with being “the author most frequently cited in …

Continue reading

materiali foucaultiani volume V, number 9-10 (January-December 2016) Open access Essays by Domingo Fernández Agis, Gianvito Brindisi, Mathieu Corteel, Giulia Guadagni, Manlio Iofrida, Valentina Moro, Maria Muhle TABLE OF CONTENTS Soggettivazione e assoggettamento: tra le maglie del soggetto (pp. 3-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Biopolitical Life and Its Milieu. Between Self-Preservation …

Continue reading

Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn (eds), Challenging the Punitive Society, Carceral Notebooks, Volume 12, 2016, General Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. See also this announcement on Andrew T. Dilt’s blog.   TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Bernard E. Harcourt Introduction: Challenging the Punitive Society Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn Part I. Foucault and the Legacy of the …

Continue reading

Foucault Studies Number 23: August 2017: Discipline and Punish Today Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al. PDF 1-3 Special Issue on Discipline and Punish Today Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish Jörg Bernardy, Frieder Vogelmann PDF 4-9 Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and “visual citizenship” Susanne Krasmann PDF 10-26 Opening …

Continue reading

Parrhesía y estética de la existencia, Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos, Núm. 2 (2017) DORSAL ISSN 0719-7519 es una Revista digital publicada por CENALTES Ediciones con acceso abierto a su contenido, de periodicidad semestral y editada por la Red Iberoamericana Foucault. En ella se publican artículos de investigación procedentes de distintas disciplinas científicas que utilicen …

Continue reading

Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Society for contemporary thought and the Islamicate world (SCTIW) 3/21/2017 “Foucault and Iran” by Banu Bargu (New School for Social Research) 3/23/2017 “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes” by Anthony C. Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center) 3/28/2017 “Foucault: Against …

Continue reading

Foucault Studies Number 22: January 2017: Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault’s Rome Editor’s note: I have now returned to the journal, of which I was one of the co-founders, as part of an expanded editorial team. An interview with another of the three founding editors of the journal, Stuart Elden, also appears in this issue, …

Continue reading

History and Theory: Special Issue: Words, Things, and Beyond: Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: FOUCAULT’S LES MOTS ET LES CHOSES AT 50 (pages 3–6) PETER E. GORDON PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN FOUCAULT’S “INTRODUCTION TO BINSWANGER’S DREAM AND EXISTENCE“: A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE ORDER OF THINGS? (pages 7–22) BÉATRICE HAN-PILE …

Continue reading

Revisiting The History of Sexuality: Thinking with Foucault at Forty, Guest edited by Howard Chiang, Cultural History, Volume 5, Issue 2, October, 2016 Articles Revisiting Foucault: Thinking with The History of Sexuality at Forty Howard Chiang ‘The Party with God’: Michel Foucault, the Gay Left and the Work of Theory Steven Maynard Sex and Truth: …

Continue reading