Leonard D'Cruz

What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe - Leonard D’Cruz, 2025 Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contempo...

New open access article by TASA member Leonard D'Cruz:

What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe

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Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method - Leonard D’Cruz, 2025 This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspect...

Did you know that Foucault's respect for the natural sciences is crucial to making sense of his work?

Check out my article, "Foucault's Naturalism", which has just been included in the most recent issue of Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Maybe, but Foucault's position is something of a moving target (especially between the archaeological and genealogical periods). I also think much depends on exactly what one means by "interpretation". My take is that he ends up complicating the dichotomy between "interpretation" and "description"

Glad to be of service! And do let me know if you want to chat more about the topic – happy to help if I can

Explanation and evaluation in Foucault's genealogy of morality Philosophers have cataloged a range of genealogical methods by which different sorts of normative conclusions can be established. Although such methods provide diverging ways of pursuing genealogical...

Great question! One thing you might find useful is this excellent article by Eli B. Lichtenstein, specifically the sections on Nietzsche and the Annales school: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Leonard D’Cruz, 'What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe - Leonard D’Cruz, 2025 Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contempo...

Everyone talks about 'necropolitics'. But does Mbembe actually succeed in distinguishing this idea from Foucault's conception of biopolitics?

My new paper in Theory, Culture & Society tackles this exact question.

Check it out here (open access!): doi.org/10.1177/0263...

The normative stakes of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism: Seduction, invention, and normalization This article critically examines Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions ...

"The normative stakes of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism: Seduction, invention, and normalization" has been included in the latest issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy!

TL;DR Foucault was NOT seduced by neoliberalism

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Thanks so much for this wonderful review, @keanuheydari.bsky.social!