Foucault News

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

Mobilities and Foucault. Special Issue, Mobilities Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 Further info Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’ Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen & David Tyfield ‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’: Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities Chris Philo Securing Circulation Through …

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Call for Papers: Soft Power Third Issue: June 30, 2015 Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics Soft Power is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published in 2014 by the Grupo Planeta, one of the leading publishers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad …

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The cover image was produced by Astra Howard, an Action Researcher/Performer currently living in Sydney Australia. Spanning more than a decade, her work has sought to elicit and document marginalised, or overlooked, experiences and discourses of the city. The specific image I have chosen is part of a series entitled ‘Kings Cross the Whisper.’ This …

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …

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Editor: See comments on this post and this article and this retraction notice Also Michel Charles, Le plagiat sans fard. Recette d’une singulière imposture, Fabula, November 2014 Call for Papers: DISCOURSES OF MADNESS/ DISCOURS DE LA FOLIE (Special volume of Neohelicon [43, 2016]. Guest-Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett) PROSPECTUS Contributions on any aspect of madness in …

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Call For Papers: Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Critical Concepts for Old and New Times? A special issue of Foucault Studies, edited Barbara Cruikshank (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Sam Binkley (Emerson College) PDF of Call for papers Update September 2025. The special issue in response to this call was published 28 June 2016, no. 21. …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 17 A Special Issue on Foucault and Deleuze guest edited by Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, Daniel W. Smith Issue 17 also includes: 3 original articles on the topics of: Foucault’s discursive practices Orientalist discourses in Foucault’s work Foucault’s late studies of and with classical Greek …

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New issue of materiali foucaultiani (II:4), consecrated mostly (but not exclusively) to “Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects”. Table of contents A che prezzo si diviene soggetti?  (pp. 3-7) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli FULL ARTICLE Butler/Foucault: Undoing Norms, Reworking Subjects Introduzione  (pp. 9-16)   Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli …

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