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 …
Ojakangas, M. (2012). “Michel Foucault and the enigmatic origins of bio-politics and governmentality”. History of the human sciences , 25 (1), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111426654 Abstract Even a superficial look at the classical ideas and practices of government of populations makes it immediately apparent that there is a peculiarity in Foucault’s genealogy of western bio-politics and …
Audrey Kiéfer et David Risse (eds). La biopolitique outre-atlantique après Foucault, Editions Harmattan, 2012 From the détentions et rétentions carcérales blog Principe de précaution. Bioéthique. Multiplication et diversification des dispositifs de contrôle des corps. Sexualité. Placement sous surveillance électronique. Village d’insertion pour les communautés Roms. Ces dispositifs de pouvoirs se présentent-ils comme rassurants, novateurs, libéralisateurs …
Terry Flew, ‘Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates’, Thesis Eleven, February 2012 vol. 108 no. 1 44-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136114214 Abstract Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von …
Holloway, Lewis (2011). “Choosing and rejecting cattle and sheep: changing discourses and practices of (de)selection in pedigree livestock breeding”. Agriculture and human values, 28 (4), pp. 533-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-010-9298-2 Abstract This paper examines the discourses and practices of pedigree livestock breeding, focusing on beef cattle and sheep in the UK, concentrating on an under-examined aspect of …
Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Description Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book …
