Foucault scholars
This is a list of people interpreting using the works of Michel Foucault in their research.
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@timchristiaens.bsky.social
@sputniksteve.bsky.social
whovian | dad | husband | chaplain | teacher | discourse digger | "we are the cosmos made conscious" - prof brian cox
@evalax.bsky.social
PhD researcher questioning hydropolitics, power, discourses, and (neo)colonialism in African water governance 💧🕊️ often ranting about our climate crisis in 🇬🇧 / 🇫🇷 / 🇪🇸 (all views mine) he/him 🏳️🌈
@saultobias.bsky.social
Liberal Arts Professor. Rootless cosmopolitan. Literature | Social and Political Philosophy | Religious Studies. Schubert and Sibelius stan. ‐ plugging away at that novel, same as everyone -
@helgeschwiertz.bsky.social
Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
@ezgiozlu.bsky.social
Migrant, Postdoc @University of Strasbourg, Re:constitution fellow 24/25 Formerly, Research Fellow @Max Planck Institute Luxembourg Human rights, PIL, courts, access to justice, legal mobilisation In her former life, constitutional law scholar in TR
@billcallahan.bsky.social
China curious filmmaker and writer for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/ Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
@svop.bsky.social
Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
@franziskavv.bsky.social
Sociology, intersectional feminism, political ecology, critical sts // postdoc @GoetheUni Frankfurt // PhD on seedbanking and naturalcultural future-/world-making
@josefbarla.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Goethe University Frankfurt | PI DFG Research training group „Fixing Futures: Technologies of anticipation in contemporary societies“ | Philosophy of technology, new materialisms, feminist epistemology & objectivity, sociology of the Antropocene
@moyalloyd.bsky.social
Political theory prof. at the University of Essex Currently writing about embodied agency, resistance, corporeal politics, vulnerability, and marginality, drawing on feminist and critical theory. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2023-2025. Own views.
@cdanby.bsky.social
Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home 2017: _The Known Economy_
@leonhardriep.bsky.social
PhD candidate in social philosophy @GoetheUniversity: "Politics of Experience after Walter Benjamin and Michael Foucault" | Research assistant in Cultural History @LeipzigUniversity | he/him
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
@erosamon.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Editor at Finance and Society. Writing about reputation, personality and financialized culture.
@jasonrweidner.bsky.social
Academic, professor of International Relations, gringo living and working in Monterrey, Mexico
@vkluzik.bsky.social
works @goetheuni.bsky.social, currently visiting CSI/école des mines, paris. historical sociologist phd‘ing on the environmentalization of economic knowledge and speculative capitalism. feminist. nie ohne soziologische brille. she/her
@mtfkear.bsky.social
Associate Prof in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at UArizona. Wanderer of financial borderscapes. Heat, housing and finance. Views my own.
@jbowsher.bsky.social
Sociology Lecturer: the cybernetic and the computational, STS, critical human rights studies. Author of The Informational Logic of Human Rights (Edinburgh University Press) (he/him)
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
@hannahrichter.bsky.social
Political theorist at Uni Sussex, Editor-in-chief of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. Critical thought, ecology, weird systems theory.
@robertdorschel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
@tivadarvervoort.net
Critical theory and political philosophy. Wrote a PhD about reification and resistance. Prepping a project on everyday resistance. Currently: postdoc at UNamur Managing editor @krisisjournal.bsky.social Editor nederlandseboekengids.com tivadarvervoort.net
@jloverwijk.bsky.social
Social Philosophy & Critical Theory | Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Social Research Frankfurt | Assistant Professor at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht | Editor at Krisis Journal | Eco-Marxism & Ecological Economics
@fmaschewski.bsky.social
Ko-Direktor Critical Data Lab (HU Berlin/Uni Oldenburg), Researcher: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Bylines: FAZ, Republik Magazin, Zeit Online, Wiwo etc. Buch: Gesellschaft der Wearables
@karstenschubert.net
Associate Fellow in Political Theory at Humboldt University Berlin. NEW BOOK: Lob der Identitätspolitik, C.H.Beck, http://www.lobderidentitaetspolitik.de
@verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social
Political theorist at the University of Illinois, review editor for Political Theory, author of Genealogies of Terrorism, writing about terrorism and white supremacy. Views my own etc. 📷 Andrew Smith
@alirizataskale.bsky.social
https://alirizataskale.com Marie Curie Fellow at Roskilde University @distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
@tbiebricher.bsky.social
Political Theory, Neoliberalism, Conservatism, Rock‘n‘Roll
@vernonwcisney.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Interdisciplinary Studies. Jewish Studies. Philosophy. Film. Lit. Gilles Deleuze. Cormac McCarthy. 1st-gen. Singer-Guitar. Pats fan. Tattoo enthusiast. Opinions my own. He/him.
@aminsamman.bsky.social
Writing a book on financial nihilism. Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
@mhjessen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Corporate Subjects: An Intellectual History of the Corporation www.corporatesubjects.com
@kylzjarrett.bsky.social
All the social medias; still nothing to say. Also on Masto and the Bad Place at same name Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
@masssimons.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him
@annanosthoff.bsky.social
JProf (TT) of Philosophy & Digital Ethics @UniOldenburg/ Co-Director @criticaldatalab.bsky.social (HU Berlin/ Uni Oldenburg)/ Affiliate @INCAmsterdam/ forthcoming book: Kybernetik & Kritik (Suhrkamp, January 2026)
@mathijsvdsande.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL). Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it.
@cearadau.bsky.social
everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
@paullangley.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Geography, Durham, UK. Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social Finance, money, FinTech, and more. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
@routhier.bsky.social
Starter pack marxist https://www.versobooks.com/products/2954-with-and-against
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology VUB teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI, research: digital & more-than-human criminology, critical surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Political Science at Columbia University and Directeur d'études at EHESS. Death penalty lawyer and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020) and *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023).
@mkonings.bsky.social
Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
@elkeschwarz.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
@jessicawhyte.bsky.social
Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.
@merijnoudenampsen.org
Politicoloog en parttime prins. Book on Dutch neoliberal turn due to appear spring 2026 @Verso Books. Columns @DeGroene. “Oh god, deze man, hou op! Deze Oudenampsen is een dwaas.” - Frits Bolkestein website: https://merijnoudenampsen.org/
@gilmorejon.bsky.social
philosophy PhD. historical materialist. free Palestine. trans rights. Chicago based. all takes my own. podcast @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social https://leftofphilosophy.com/ https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
@nescio13.bsky.social
Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack: https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
@jasonread.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
International law, historical materialism, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@pardoguerra.bsky.social
Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-25) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, and translator. Views do not represent those of my employer. Most recent book: www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919108/late-star-trek/ Star Trek Substack: akotsko.substack.com Academic blog: itself.blog Professional site: adamkotsko.com
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@versobooks.bsky.social
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@steffenmau.bsky.social
Sociologist HU Berlin l social change, inequality, transformation, conflict, borders (picture Midjourney | Gesine Born | Bilderinstitut)
@mflohr.bsky.social
I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and lecturer at Roskilde Uni. He/him. Tweets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸Research profile: https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/mflohrc
@dzamorav.bsky.social
Professor of sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Work on intellectual history, inequality, poverty and economic thought.
@lottelist.bsky.social
Lotta Continua, List der Vernunft. Marxist researcher in political philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of history, and the history of economic thought. www.lottelist.org
@danielloick.bsky.social
Social and Political Philosophy danielloick.net New book: Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/daniel-loick-die-ueberlegenheit-der-unterlegenen-t-9783518300398
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Politics of Possibility https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-possibility & Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
@danlor.bsky.social
Philosophy professor at Penn Author of “The Force of Truth” (Chicago, 2023)
@timchristiaens.bsky.social
Political philosopher working on critical theory, the digitalization of work, platform capitalism, and anything else going wrong in the world. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University.