materiali foucaultiani, volume X, numero 19-20 (gennaio-dicembre 2021) Open access SOMMARIO L’ambiente del governo. Biopolitica ed ecologia politica a cura di Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Introduzione. La biopolitica e il clima della storia (pp. 5-18) Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Gouvernementalité et écologie (pp. 19-44) Emanuele Leonardi, Luigi Pellizzoni L’impasse de l’antinaturalisme …
Ottavio Marzocca, Il virus della biopolitica: forme e mutazioni, Edizioni Efesto (2023) La pandemia ha confermato che la biopolitica è una forma essenziale della politica dominante. Essa tuttavia non ne è il “paradigma”, ma è parte di un insieme di tecniche di governo, in cui il primato della razionalità economica s’intreccia con la pervasività delle …
Prewitt, Ryan, and Max Accardi. “Cultural Necromancy: Digital Resurrection and Hegemonic Incorporation.” SubStance 52, no. 2 (2023): 74-101. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2023.a907150. Abstract: This essay follows the recent discourse on two phenomena: the tendency of hegemony to incorporate subversive cultures, and the digital reanimation of prominent dead people. At the intersection of these phenomena lies what we call …
Foeken, E. (2023). Embodied, caring and disciplinary: A Foucauldian reading of ‘process time’ as constitutive of the biopolitical institution of the family. Time & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231176434 ‘Process time’ describes the recursive/fluid, social and embodied temporality that characterises much ‘women’s work’. Though this concept has proven highly useful to feminist analyses of caring and other feminised …
Lemm, Vanessa, and Miguel Vatter. “Chapter 4: Michel Foucault’s perspective on biopolitics”. In Handbook of Biology and Politics, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) accessed Jul 26, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476275.00012 Abstract Foucault’s discussion of biopolitics, a term that he began using in the mid-1970s, is closely related to his new theories of power, which have since …
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 …
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