As friends of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY by now know, 2026 is the centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth in 1926. In a recent post, I wrote:

Facebook is buzzing in anticipation of the publication of The Foucauldian Mind in September to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. Edited by the illustrious Daniele Lorenzini, this landmark text has 44 chapters written by important scholars of Foucault’s work. I am delighted to be in their company by contributing my chapter “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault)” to the collection.

A book as immense (in insight and sheer size) as The Foucauldian Mind will be both expensive and in high demand. So, get your institutional and local public libraries to put in their pre-orders for it as soon as possible.

But wait! There’s more that (feminist) philosophers who work on Foucault can eagerly anticipate, especially with respect to theory that can motivate public forms of resistance and personal and political transformation.

If all goes as smoothly as planned, the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that I am guest editing in commemoration of Foucault’s birth will appear in September too.

Collated under the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” this remarkable issue of FPQ will include articles on disability, Buddhism, and meditation; sex work in post-socialist China; disability, bioethics, and abolition; techno-fascism, disability, and education; and long-termism, as well as an interview with (renowned Foucauldian feminist philosopher) Ladelle McWhorter on genealogy, eugenics, and queer theory.

As you eagerly await the publication later this year of the FPQ special issue to commemorate Foucault, you can enjoy other riches from the trove of brilliant work now produced on Foucault and his indelible impact and influence on recent, current, and future political, philosophical, institutional, social, and cultural thinking and action, including queer theory and activism, prison abolitionism, and anti-ableism.

Since I am an editor of Foucault Studies, I want especially to promote the Spring 2026 issue of the journal which is a special issue edited by the illustrious Daniele Lorenzini and others. Daniele writes: “On this anniversary year, this issue of Foucault Studies is devoted to a special dossier edited by Sverre Raffnsøe, Dorthe Staunæs, Martina Tazzioli, and myself on Critique Beyond Criticism: The Crisis and Potentials of Critique in Critical Times.”

You can find this exciting commemorative issue of Foucault Studies here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56718