Tamara J. Young, Rochelle Einboden 2026. Power, Resistance, and Family Absence During Resuscitation: A Foucauldian Analysis. Nursing Inquiry 32: e70111. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.70111 ABSTRACT Although family presence during resuscitation demonstrates benefits such as facilitating the grieving process through fostering a sense of closeness, providing reassurance that all efforts were made, and…
Dimitrios Lais, Foucault’s Ethics of Genealogy. Antiquity, (Neo) Governmentality, and Globalisation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 About this book This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Michel Foucault’s late work, reconstructing him as an ethical philosopher whose account of antiquity provides crucial resources for understanding contemporary forms of power. Bringing Foucault into original…
Gutting, Gary and Johanna Oksala, “Michel Foucault”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2026 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.) First published Wed Apr 2, 2003; substantive revision Tue Apr 21, 2026 Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had strong influence…
Diana Obeid, Prison Narratives in the Arab World. Writing as Resistance in Egypt and Syria, Bloomsbury, 2026 Description The book examines how imprisoned Arab authors challenge regimes that seek to reduce them to “docile bodies” or worse-subject them to haywana, the process of animalization that strips prisoners of their humanity. Through clandestine writing, fragmented memory, …
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Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese (eds), COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations. Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures, Anthem Press, 2025 This book unveils the challenges of living beyond Covid-19 navigating trauma, solidarity, and transformative futures. The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 emerged in the city of Wuhan in December…
Jade G Roque and Marcos C Alvarez, Breaking the pendulum with Michel Foucault: Modern punishment beyond docile bodies, Punishment and Society, Published online 4 May 2026 https://doi.org/10.1177/146247452614465 Abstract Contemporary penal change is often explained as an institutionally mediated outcome of political, cultural, and social transformations that vacillate between affinity for…
Damián Tuset Varela (2024). Artificial Intelligence Law through the Lens of Michel Foucault: Biopower, Surveillance, and the Reconfiguration of Legal Normativity. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12, 189-201. https://www.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2024.1212012 Abstract This paper examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on legal systems through the theoretical lens of Michel Foucault. It…
Etienne Balibar, Sur la catastrophe informatique : une fin de l’historicité ?, Les temps qui restent, 4 March 2024 La catastrophe digitale en cours fait des humains des inforgs, des organismes configurés et traités par l’informatique. Cela reconfigure les relations de pouvoir, de travail, et de production et circulation du symbolique : ce sont des conséquences anthropologiques. Elles …
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Ruixun Dai, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas, and Shaun Rawolle. 2025. “Revisiting Foucault’s Panopticon: How Does AI Surveillance Transform Educational Norms?” British Journal of Sociology of Education 46 (5): 650–68 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2501118 Abstract This article applies Foucault’s theories of surveillance, disciplinary power, and normalisation to examine the shifting power…
Christophe Bouton, The problem of the transcendental from Kant to Hegel. The young Foucault’s interpretation of the “Phenomenology of Spirit” in his 1949 mémoire. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. First published: 13 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.70043 Abstract In this paper, I explore the young Foucault’s engagement with phenomenology in his master’s thesis, The Constitution of a…
Το πρωί της 24ης Μαΐου, συγκεντρωθήκαμε στην πλατεία του χωριού Οινόη και στη συνέχεια πραγματοποιήσαμε πορεία προς το στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης προσφύγων στα Οινόφυτα, εκφράζοντας τη στήριξή μας στον αγώνα των κατοίκων του στρατοπέδου Οινοφύτων. Η κινητοποίηση επικεντρώθηκε στο αίτημα για άμεση εξέταση των αιτήσεων ασύλου των κατοίκων, καθώς πολλοί βρίσκονται στο στρατόπεδο εδώ και σχεδόν έναν…
On the morning of May 24th, we, Solidarity with Migrants and solidarians, gathered in the town square of Oinoi village and then marched toward the concentration camp of refugees of Oinofyta to demonstrate in support of the struggle of the residents in the Oinofyta camp. The protest focused on demanding the processing of asylum applications …
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Rubén Alepuz Cintas, Molecular Biopolitics and Biological Citizenship: Towards a New Configuration of Power over Life. (2026). Tábano, 27, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.2026.5394 Article in Spanish Abstract This article analyzes the evolution of the concept of biopolitics from Michel Foucault to Nikolas Rose, with a particular focus on molecular biopolitics and biological citizenship. It…
Indrajit Mukherjee, (2025). Performing the Otherness: Vodou/Voodoo as a Cultural Marker of Subaltern Resistance in Magical Realist Narratives. In: Bacon, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7_113-1 Abstract The Vodou/Voodoo exercises, often associated with the Aja, Ewe, Kongo, and Wolof people of the pre-colonial West…
Appel à contributions: Regards sur le « nouveau droit » foucaldien – | Call for papers: Perspectives on the Foucauldian « New Law » PDF of Call for papers […] As part of the publication of thematic issues, the open-access legal journal Lex Electronica invites those interested in exploring the theme of the “new Foucauldian …
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Emmanuel Le Doeuff, Les thèses annotées de Michel Foucault sont désormais en ligne sur Numerabilis, Panacée, 7 mai 2026 https://doi.org/10.58079/166xv Comme nous l’indiquions dans un billet précédent1, les trois volumes de la thèse principale de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ainsi que les deux volumes de sa thèse complémentaire sont conservés à la BU Henri-Piéron. Intitulées respectivement…
Donna M. Goldstein & Magdalena E. Stawkowski, Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk, Journal of the History of Biology (Published: 19 March 2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09851-0 Abstract This paper explores the complexities of extrapolating insect data to understand nuclear exposure effects on humans. Within radiation…
Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society A Reappraisal, Routledge, 2026 This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, tensions, inconsistencies, and transformations in Foucault’s work, the book shows how, in Foucault’s later years, his ideas gradually converged toward a conception of …
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Frontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities. A new peer-reviewed, open access journal launching in 2027 in Kyoto, Japan. The inaugural special issue, will be the ‘The Birth of Michel Foucault (La naissance de Michel Foucault) a volume marking the centenary of his birth. The call for papers has just opened. Frontier Ethics: A Journal …
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Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault. A Virtual Force Ontology, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 Christopher Penfield illuminates the philosophical encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, developing the first systematic treatment of Deleuze’s book Foucault, originally published in 1986. Using the full spectrum of Foucault’s primary texts, as well as new insights and analysis…
Rosario Palese, 2026. “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge” Societies 16, no. 3: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc16030102 Abstract This article examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reconfiguring truth regimes in digital societies, introducing the concept of “Artificial Truth” to describe an emerging form of…
Shai Gortler, 2026. “Foucault and the Prisons Information Group’s Counter-subjectivation.” Philosophy and Society 37 (1): 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2601173G Abstract Between February 1971 and December 1972, Michel Foucault co-founded and was an active member of the Prisons Information Group (Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, hereafter GIP). Through demonstrations, direct action, and…
Foukenstein is a conversational performance that gives voice to an artificial figure freely inspired by Michel Foucault. Starting from a written question, the dispositif produces a spoken response by combining text generation, the mobilization of theoretical references, short-term memory, and speech synthesis. It does not seek to simulate Foucault, nor to offer a faithful incarnation …
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Amin Zaini, 2026. Introducing noise cleansing: reading real-time censorship ambivalently. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2670699 ABSTRACT While censorship is often conceptualised as a retrospective and regulated practice, this study examines it as a real-time process of speech interruption and an under-explored dimension of contemporary surveillance. It…
Kristian D’Amato, ChatGPT: towards AI subjectivity, AI & Society, 40, pp.1627–1641 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01898-z Abstract Motivated by the question of responsible AI and value alignment, I seek to offer a uniquely Foucauldian reconstruction of the problem as the emergence of an ethical subject in a disciplinary setting. This reconstruction contrasts with the strictly…
Marc Trabsky, Death. New Trajectories in Law, Routledge, 2024 This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of …
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Daniele Lorenzini, The Foucauldian Mind, Routledge, Forthcoming July 2026 Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His engagement with topics such as truth, power and language continues to exert significant influence …
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(Scroll down for the english version of this article / θα βρείτε την αγγλική μετάφραση του άρθρου στο κάτω μέρος της σελίδας) “Αυτό δεν είναι προσφυγικό στρατόπεδο αλλά φυλακή “ – κάτοικος του camp Οινοφύτων “Δεν ζητάω αυτά τα πράγματα μόνο για μένα, οπότε αν μπορείτε να τα βρείτε μόνο για μένα, μην τα φέρετε. …
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Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German, Research Monographs in French Studies, 71 (Legenda, 2025) The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this reason that Foucault’s ideas are difficult to translate. Yet in Anglophone debates, the task of translation has not …
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Kélina Gotman, What is a thoughtful life?, Manchester University Press, forthcoming June 2026 In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought…