Spieker, J. Defending the open society: Foucault, Hayek, and the problem of biopolitical order (2013) Economy and Society, 42 (2), pp. 304-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.687929 Abstract The aim of this paper is to throw new light on a previously neglected aspect of Hayek’s political theory. In order to show the significance of Hayek’s evolutionary argument, the paper draws on Foucault’s thesis about …
Mark Kelly, Michel Foucault’s Political Thought, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013 The work of twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault has increasingly influenced the study of politics. This influence has mainly been via concepts he developed in particular historical studies that have been taken up as analytical tools; “governmentality” and ”biopower” are the most prominent of …
Teresa Macias, ‘Tortured bodies’: The biopolitics of torture and truth in Chile (2013) International Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.701912 Abstract In the same way that torture has become a common and privileged instrument of war and political repression, and a regular occurrence of our time, so, too, has the question of …
Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical authority, objectivity and the groundwork of modern citizenship Journal of Political Power Volume 6, Issue 1, 2013 Special Issue: Special Issue on Authority http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2013.774968 Abstract Authority is a powerful concept for coming to terms with the diversity of power. This article reframes the concept of ‘authority’ and articulates its continued relevance in …
Singh, N.M. The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India (2013) Geoforum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.010 Abstract How do humans come to care for their environment and what turns them into conservationists are central questions in environmental politics. Recent scholars have turned to Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality” to understand …
Crawshaw, P. Governing at a distance: Social marketing and the (bio) politics of responsibility, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 75, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 200-207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.040 Abstract In the recently published lectures from the College de France series, The Birth of Biopolitics, Foucault (2009) offers his most explicit analysis of neo-liberal governmentality and its …
Special Issue Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 43, 2012 Presentación Laura Quintana y Carlos Manrique Editorial Foucault’s Critique of Political Reason: Individualization and Totalization Paolo Savoia La palabra transgresiva y la otra vida: de la literatura al gesto cínico (entre Foucault y Raúl Gómez Jattin) Carlos Manrique De la subjetivación política. Althusser/Rancière/Foucault/Arendt/Deleuze Etienne Tassin Singularización …
Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” Part 2 organized at Goldsmiths College (London) by Yari Lanci, Amedeo Policante and Martina Tazzioli, with the support of the Department of Politics and of mf / materiali foucaultiani Thursday, November 22, 5-7 pm Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 2107 Goldsmiths, University of London …
Brett Neilson, Ageing, Experience, Biopolitics: Life’s Unfolding, Body and Society, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, September 2012, Pages 44-71 https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X12446377 Abstract In the wake of Foucault, the debate on biopolitics has focused on the tensions of bíos and zoé, community and immunity, generation and thanatopolitics. What remains obscure in these accounts is the experiential aspect of …
Ben Anderson, Affect and biopower: Towards a politics of life, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 28-43 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00441.x Abstract In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through …
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