Monica Greco, Biopolitics. In Eds. Arpad Szakolczai and Paul OʼConnor, Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, Elgar, 356–359 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310494.00075 Abstract While Michel Foucault was not the first to use the term ‘biopolitics’, his formulation of this concept transformed its meaning fundamentally for subsequent generations of scholars. Through this concept, Foucault turned the tables on a tradition … Continue reading

Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi, (2025). Pastoral Power: Perspectives on the Present. Theory, Culture & Society, Online 26 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764251397525 Open access Abstract This introduction to this special section of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the formation of power that Michel Foucault – in a number of texts and lectures from the late … Continue reading

Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? … Continue reading

Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli, Constanza Parra, Artur da Rosa Pires, The politics of possibility in just transitions: A Foucauldian reading, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 129, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104375 Abstract Drawing from Michel Foucault’s notions of power, knowledge, governmentality, and biopolitics, we explore the epistemological and ontological foundations of just transition discourses. Current hegemonic conceptualizations of … Continue reading

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Georgios Tsagdis, Anthropocene Anarchives, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2025.0620 Abstract The essay pursues Deleuze’s reading of Foucault in order to elicit a fourfold of anarchival virtualities that trouble and destabilise the constitution of every archive. This thematisation of the anarchival is critical in an age that orders life relentlessly, arranging and … Continue reading

Phillip Joy, Meredith Bessey, and Linda Mann “I Believe in Santa Claus” and Ozempic: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Holiday Health Advertising. Qualitative Health Research. First published online June 19, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251350876 Open access Abstract This study examines the weight-related discourses in holiday advertising for Ozempic, a prescription drug originally developed for diabetes management but … Continue reading

Huseyin Caliskan, Ustuner Birben & Sezgin Ozden, Shifting Priorities: How Amendments in Forestry Law Impact Resource Management, the Case of Türkiye. Environmental Management 76, 13 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02308-w Abstract In Türkiye, where nearly all forests are publicly owned, the government exercises substantial authority over forest management and utilization. This study examines how legislative and regulatory changes … Continue reading

Call for Papers Conference: Contagion, Information, Territory Date: 17-19 June, 2026 Location: Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers Dr. Ramon Amaro (Design Academy Eindhoven) Prof. Dr. Jasbir Puar (University of British Columbia) Deadline Call for Papers: 31 January, 2026 PDF of call for papers As new forms of exclusion and colonialism are emerging and old … Continue reading

CFP: “Speech and Politics” with Miranda Fricker Sciences Po’s 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory Submission deadline: January 31, 2026 Conference date(s): May 27, 2026 – May 28, 2026 Call for papers Key words: Attentiveness, listening, discourses, representation, political language, democracy, margins The relationship between speech and politics has recently become the object of renewed … Continue reading

Foucault and Film (Part I) Monday, February 10, 2025 to Friday, February 14, 2025 Theme week organized by Jenny Gunn, Georgia State University Co-editor Sara Ghazi Asadollahi About MediaCommons Foucault’s ‘Cinematicity’ By Jenny Gunn, Monday, February 10, 2025 Curator’s Note “Foucault is uniquely akin to contemporary film.” -Gilles Deleuze[i] Despite Deleuze’s definitive claim in the … Continue reading

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking October 2025, Volume 108, Number 4 Editor: Fraser McBride Advisory Editors Paul A. Roth and Matteo Vagelli Contents: Does Entity Realism Hold Up? — Lydia Patton Scientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work — Oscar Westerblad and Henk W. de Regt Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophical Technology, and … Continue reading

CFP: *50 Years of The History of Sexuality* Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2026 Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster Organizers: Toby Anne Finlay, York University ([email protected]); Chris Tatham, University of Guelph. Dates Call for Abstracts: December 3, 2025 – January 26, 2026 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michel Foucault’s The … Continue reading

Chris Gavaler, Michel Foucault Is Not a Comics Scholar, The Patron Saint of Superheroes blog, August 21, 2023 […] Foucault is not a comics scholar. He did, however, provide one of the earliest analyses of the comics gutter: “On the page of an illustrated book, we seldom pay attention to the small space running above … Continue reading

Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation, Translated by Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, Publication date: February 17th, 2026 Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious exploration of the deep interconnections among disparate fields … Continue reading

Le thermomètre de Foucault Journée d’étude 9 Janvier 2026 09:00 – 18:00 École normale supérieure – PSL 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 2e étage, salle Théodule Ribot, U209 Grégoire Chamayou (CNRS-ENS Paris), Frédéric Keck (CNRS-EHESS Paris) et Jean-Claude Monod (CNRS-ENS Paris) Dans sa généalogie des savoirs biopolitiques, Michel Foucault a beaucoup parlé des milieux mais peu … Continue reading

Stephen W. Sawyer, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. Description Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy. However, the debate over this relationship has given rise to a … Continue reading

Ilaria Santoemma, From Pervasive Technologies to Technology of the Self. A Counter-Subjectivation argument for a Shift in the Critical Theory of Cyberspace, Soft Power, pp. 49-68 Issue 22 (11,2) July-December 2024 https://doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2024.11.2.3 Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the discourse on the intersection of power dynamics and subjectivation processes as explored in critical theory, … Continue reading

Robin Hickman, Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility challenges the dominant discourses of motorisation and the ineffective implementation of sustainable mobility, arguing that transport planning history is … Continue reading

Emanuele Iula, Transizioni. Il soggetto sessuale al vaglio della filosofia e della psicoanalisi, Orthotes Editrice, 2025 Il soggetto sessuale è una categoria emersa dalle ricerche di Michel Foucault, ma già presente nei testi di Simone de Beauvoir. Il nucleo concettuale, da cui si dipanano i vari tipi di esperienza menzionati dagli autori, consiste in una … Continue reading

Carr, M. Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites. Journal of Business Ethics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06055-0 Abstract This article critically examines the discourse of ‘bring your whole self to work’ within the diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) narratives of investment banks. While inclusion is … Continue reading

Alex Dubilet, Foucault, Our Contemporary, boundary 2 (2025) 52 (4): 7–48 https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-11938189 Abstract In fall 1978, Michel Foucault proposes political spirituality as a prism for understanding the Iranian uprising’s contravention of modernity’s secular coordinates, thus continuing the chain of conceptualization begun earlier that year with counter‐conduct and the critical attitude. But in extricating the facticity … Continue reading

Colloque international Néolibéralismes, néofascismes, néo-populismes. Spectres de Foucault (Paris) All details at this link Du 10 Décembre 2025 au 12 Décembre 2025 Comprendre pourquoi Michel Foucault fait retour inévitablement dans les généalogies contemporaines des néolibéralismes, c’est s’employer à ressaisir la pertinence du diagnostic du présent qui fut la sienne en 1979 lorsqu’il diagnostiqua le sens … Continue reading