Vint, S. Biopolitics and Bioethics (2023) The Oxford Handbook of: New Science Fiction Cinemas, Ed. J. P. Telotte, Oxford University Press, pp. 193-205.
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.12
Abstract
This chapter outlines ideas central to biopolitical theory and demonstrates how they have proven especially useful for analyzing science fiction (sf) films, particularly those concerned with the social reproduction of humanity into the future, and those exploring themes about society’s differentiation between valued and disposable life-a distinction that sf has often represented as a matter of species difference. The primary text used to examine ideas about the valuation of life is Claire Denis’s High Life. © Oxford University Press 2023. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords
body; governance; medicine; Michel Foucault; population; reproduction; violence
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