Giorgi Vachnadze, The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence, Non, 15 July 2023 I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how would that make …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Biometric Technology And The Theory Of Human Capital, Non, 8 July 2023 Authentication and Verification: Defining the Problem Throughout his career, one of the central concerns for Foucault’s work was to investigate, analyze and offer a genealogical account of truth-telling as a mode of subjectivation. The notion of Biopolitics implies many different ways …
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …
Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature, de Gruyter, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 About this book This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken …
Højme, Philip. 2022. “Biopolitics and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of the Danish Government’s Response to the Pandemic” Philosophies 7, no. 2: 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020034 Abstract With the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant once again forcing countries into lockdown (as of late 2021), this essay seeks to outline a Foucauldian critique of various legal …
Kaufman, S.R., Morgan, L.M. The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life (2023) Medical Anthropology, pp. 465-490. DOI: 10.4324/9781315249360-40 Abstract This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life. A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that characterize anthropological attention to the cultural production of …
Menard, R., Törrönen, J. Immigration, Multiculturalism and Biopolitical Projects on ‘Difference’: Negotiating Intersecting Social Divisions From Positions of Privilege and Disadvantage (2023) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 13 (1), pp. 1-23. DOI: 10.33134/njmr.513 Abstract Informed by Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, in this study we examine how lived experiences of privilege and disadvantage may be at …
Erbilen, S.Ü., Uysal, M. The Common Point of Countries Successful Policies in the Struggle Against COVID-19: Women Leaders (2023) SAGE Open, 13 (2) DOI: 10.1177/21582440231179458 Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the biggest epidemics of the last century and can be regarded as a global tragedy, leaders had to mobilize many resources …
Stephanie Cox, Showers: Discourse, Disability, and the State, PhD thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023 Open access Abstract Showering is a pleasurable part of a daily hygiene routine for many people. However, for those who are unable to stand or step up into the typical shower unit, it is a space of …
Rust, J.R. Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia (2023) Textual Practice DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2205708 Abstract Discourses of health and disease pervade More’s Utopia. The text insistently plays upon the ambiguities of salus, a term with a wide semantic range including spiritual salvation, the physical health of the individual body, and the …
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