Project MUSE - Foucault Studies-Issue 39, Spring 2026

Editorial

Daniele Lorenzini

pp. iii-v

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00024

Critique Beyond Criticism: The Crisis and Potentials of Critique in Critical Times

Sverre Raffnsøe, Daniele Lorenzini, Dorthe Staunæs, Martina Tazzioli

pp. 1-25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00025

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The Pressing Task of Critique

Bernard E. Harcourt, Robert Harvey, Sverre Raffnsøe

pp. 26-38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00026

Critique and Criticism, in Times of Crisis

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sverre Raffnsøe

pp. 39-72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00027

Criticism, Confidence and the Crisis in Critique

David Owen

pp. 73-87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00028

Critique "After" Foucault: Peter Sloterdijk, Affirmative Critique, and the Genealogy of the Critical Attitude

Erik Sporon Fiedler

pp. 88-108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00029

Genealogy as Critical Practice: Toward a Reading of Affective Genealogy

Mostyn Taylor Crockett

pp. 109-131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00030

The Impolitical Concept of Uselessness as a Heuristic Category for Critical Resistance to the Neoliberal Order: A Foucauldian Approach

Léa Antonicelli

pp. 132-157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00031

Sadomasochism in Foucault's Thought and Its Potential Critical Dimension

Cristian Gonzalez Arevalo

pp. 158-174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00032

Critique, Counter-Conduct, Form of Life

Dawn Herrera Helphand

pp. 175-196

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00033

"Toward the Life that It Is Preparing": Dreaming and Fabulating as Critical Arts

Kris Pint

pp. 197-218

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00034

Speculative Critique: Saidiya Hartman, Michel Foucault, and the Limits of the Archive

Miriam Schröder

pp. 219-239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00035

Problematizing Nature: A Foucault Against the Anthropocene

Stefan Rohrhirsch

pp. 240-258

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00036

Black Thought Contra-Foucault? Critique, Counter-History, and the Search for an Originary Cut

Daniel J. Schultz

pp. 259-285

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00037

Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics ed. by Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (review)

Silvia Capodivacca

pp. 286-289

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00038

Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 by Elisabetta Basso (review)

Sneha V. John, Thahiya Afzal

pp. 290-293

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00039

Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) ed. by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn (review)

Anil Kumar

pp. 294-297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00040

A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow (review)

Naz Oktay

pp. 298-302

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fou.00041

ISSN	1832-5203
Launched on MUSE	2026-04-22
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