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 Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the discourse on the intersection of power dynamics and subjectivation processes as explored in critical theory, particularly in response to the digital transformation brought about by information and communications technologies and cyberspace.

Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Andrew Purves (Eds), Postcapitalist Countrysides. From commoning to community wealth building, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its premise is that capitalism, as we experience it today, is incapable of solving key societal challenges – centred on social justice and sustainable livelihoods.

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 not merely a record of successful projects but a reflection of how transport has been provided, including who and what has been included or excluded.

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 transizione, la cui chiave di volta è normativa.

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). 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 often framed as essential for leveraging diversity, scholars argue that ‘whole self’ approaches risk individualising diversity and reinforcing systemic exclusions.

Alex Dubilet, Foucault, Our Contemporary, boundary 2 (2025) 52 (4): 7–48 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 of uprising from revolutionary normative frameworks and narrative schemas, Foucault avowed — however briefly — a lived collective refusal incommensurable with the order of government, the kind of absolute refusal of government that appeared earlier only via negation, equivocation, and disavowal.

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 et la portée de l’émergence du néolibéralisme au regard de ce qui nous arrive aujourd’hui.

Bala, M., Singh, S. When elephants fight back: Animal standpoint reading of Nirmal Ghosh’s Novella River Storm (2024) Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 14 (1), pp. 9-25. Cited 1 time. DOI: 10.1386/fict_00093_1 Abstract Drawing inspiration from Geoffrey Whitehall’s article titled ‘“When they fight back”: A cinematic archive of animal resistance and world wars’, this article seeks to explore the exploitation and resistance of elephants by examining the power dynamics between humans and elephants in Nirmal Ghosh’s novella…

Bar Foucault Instagram Facebook December 2025 will mark the fifth anniversary of the bar's opening. From Vichayuth Chantan, Chiang Mai bars: Where to get the best cocktails up North, Lifstyle Asia, 26 September 2024 Named after the French philosopher most known for critiques of humanist philosophy, Bar Foucault offers guests a taste of power through cocktails without the discipline and punish of his literary works.

Carlson, Stephen C. “The Imposition of Authorship: Michel Foucault’s Author-Function and Papias of Hierapolis on the Gospel of Mark.” Harvard Theological Review 118, no. 2 (2025): 242–63. Abstract In a famous essay, Michel Foucault introduced the term “author-function” into scholarly discourse, and later scholars of authorship in antiquity have applied the term in different ways to different concepts. Some scholars center the notion of authorship around authority, while others look to the notion of authorizing a work as a finished literary work.

Lars Erik L. Gjerde, Nordic Leviathans. A Weberian-Foucauldian Study of the Politics of COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 About this book This book offers a theoretical synthesis between the Foucauldian theory of power and the Weberian theory of the state. The book centres on the politics of COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden. It analyses the different tactics, strategies and rationalizations of these states to develop the theoretical framework, while using the theoretical framework to better advance our understandings of the politics of COVID-19 and how state power worked in subtle and overt, direct and indirect, ways, during this crisis.

June 23, 2025, Theoretical Puppets: Z is for Zoology (Michel Foucault)

Lynne Huffer, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction, Duke University Press, 2025 Summary A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer’s These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and experimental features that include black-out poems, weather reports, and abecedarian essays.

Echo Delay Reverb. American Art, Francophone Thought Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France from 10/22/2025 to 02/15/2026 The group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world, from Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Monique Wittig, Pierre Bourdieu and Edouard Glissant… The reception and translation of their work in the United States led to unexpected forms, creating tools for a critical vision of institutions, both those of art and those of society.

Maya Krishnan, (2025) “Over-intelligibility”, Political Philosophy 2(2). doi: Abstract Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet hinders someone as a knower. This takes place when concepts normalize or detrimentally standardize our epistemic lives.

Foucault Studies, Issue 38, Fall 2025 Open access Table of Contents Editorial Foucault's Revision of Ideology Critique Johanna Oksala Waging War, Waging Peace: The Weimar Right and Michel Foucault's Analysis of Power in the Mirror of the Archives Philipp Kender Genealogy Between Health and Illness: On the Ambiguity of the Historical Sense in Foucault's 1969–1970 Vincennes Lectures on Nietzsche…

Emmanuel Chamorro Sánchez, Foucault, el poder y la política, de mayo del 68 al ascenso del neoliberalismo, Editorial Universidad de Granada (EUG), 2025 Este libro tiene como objetivo reconstruir el itinerario intelectual, político y biográfico de Michel Foucault desde 1968 hasta 1979. Comienza con los acontecimientos del Mayo francés —que alcanzaron a Foucault en plena revolución tunecina y se cierra con la victoria de Margaret Thatcher y el inicio de la consolidación global del neoliberalismo.

Jean Allouch, Entre Lacan et Foucault 1983-2022, Epel Éditions, 2025 « La position de la psychanalyse, dis-je, sera foucaldienne, ou la psychanalyse ne sera plus. D’ailleurs, nous allons le voir, ça a toujours été le cas », déclare Jean Allouch en 1998 dans la première de ses « Érotologies analytiques » (La Psychanalyse : une érotologie de passage). Dès 1983, c’est en faisant cas de la conférence de Michel Foucault en 1969 « Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ?

Jan 20, 2025, Theoretical Puppets: O is for Outside (Michel Foucault)

Jean-Marie Durand, De Deleuze à Foucault, la “French Theory” illustrée dans un magistral essai graphique, Les Inrockuptibles, 28 octobre 2025 French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle de François Cusset, Thomas Daquin (La Découverte, Delcourt, 2025) Avec “French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle”, François Cusset et Thomas Daquin rendent accessibles les concepts-clé de la french theory, aujourd’hui attaqués par l’internationale réactionnaire.

François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle (La Découverte, Delcourt, 2025) On connaissait la French Pop , mais connaissez-vous la French Theory ? Comment Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida... sont devenus des stars aux USA et comment leurs théories, sur la déconstruction, le genre, les inégalités ont façonné le débat contemporain. Entre wokistes et réacs, le débat fait rage. La promesse de ce livre : nous ouvrir grand les yeux, de façon ludique, sur Foucault, Derrida ou Baudrillard et l'aventure de leur singulière théorie, aux USA et au-delà... Les penseurs de la déconstruction, du genre ou du racisme, sont devenus des stars américaines et ont révolutionné nos façons de voir le monde.

Thakur, S. Environmental crises as crises of representation: Community rights and natural resource (Mis) management in India. Jindal Global Law Review 16, 357–386 (2025). Abstract If one has to look for the origin to diffusing environmental crises, one must look in the forests and the usurpation of its governance from communities by the developmental state. This paper undertakes an interdisciplinary examination of the nexus between environmental crises, representation, community rights, and natural resource management in India, specifically focusing on the marginalisation of forest dwellers.

Call for papers XIV MICHEL FOUCAULT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: 50 YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY May 26 to 29, 2026 Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Instagram contact: foucaultnabahia@gmail.com _______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION OF APPLICANTS: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THEMATIC SYMPOSIUMS AND PANELS 1. OVERVIEW The XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years of the History of Sexuality will be held in person from May 26 to 29, 2026, at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

Richard Niesche and Denise Mifsud, Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership. Methodological and Conceptual Challenges, Bloomsbury, 2025. This book brings together key scholars using Foucault in educational leadership to provide an overview of his methodologies, concepts, and examples of applications. Written for both those new to and experienced with Foucault's work, this book explores new avenues to understand, critique and explore relevant issues in educational leadership.

Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Philips, J., Procter, S. Governing the factory: microhistories of the present (2024) Management and Organizational History DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127 Abstract Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but deeply strange to us. Such peculiar moments are subjected to intense scrutiny to understand how they were meaningful to participants.