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Foucault Studies Number 35, December 2023

Special Issue: Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe et al.

Special Issue Introduction
Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times
Annika Skoglund, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Fabiana Jardim, David Armstrong

Governmentality, Science and the Media. Examining the “Pandemic Reality” with Foucault, Lyotard and Baudrillard
Jean-Paul Sarrazin, Fabián Aguirre

Securing the Pandemic: Biopolitics, Capital, and COVID-19
Mark G. Kelly

Plague, Foucault, Camus
Adam Herpolsheimer

Fragile Responsibilization: Rights and Risks in the Bulgarian Response to Covid 19
Todor Hristov

A Critique of Pandemic Reason: Towards a Syndemic Noso-Politics
Jorge Vélez Vega, Ricardo Noguera-Solano

Foucault Meets Novel Coronavirus: Biosociality, Excesses of Governmentality and the “Will to Live” of the Pandemicariat
Subhendra Bhowmick, Mursed Alam

Critical Friendship After the Pandemic
Joelle M. Abi-Rached

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Freedom-Security Tension: Calibrating their Fragile Relationship
Pablo Martín Méndez

Virus as a figure of geontopower or how to practice Foucault now? A conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Fabiana Jardim, Annika Skoglund, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, David Armstrong

Metamorphosis of Biopolitics. A Foucauldian Ecological Perspective and the Challenge of the Pandemic. A Review Essay of Ottavio Marzocca, Biopolitics for Beginners. Knowledge of Life and Government of People
Valentina Antoniol

Book Reviews
Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino (ed.), Biopolitics and Ancient Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN: 978-0-19-284710-2.
Morten S. Thaning

Post-pandemic South Asian Governmentalities and Foucault: State Power and Ordinary Citizens
Nasima Islam

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