Biopower : Foucault and beyond / edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar.

Date:
2016
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"Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe "a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them." With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power--what Foucault called "sovereign power"--the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics." --Publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Physical description

x, 376 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction: Why biopower? Why now? / Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar -- Origins of biopower. The literary birth of biopolitics / Judith Revel ; translated by Christopher Penfield -- At the origins of biopolitics / Antonio Negri ; translated by Diana Garvin -- Biopower and the avalanche of printed numbers / Ian Hacking -- Biopolitics and the concept of life / Catherine Mills -- Power and biopower in Foucault / Paul Patton -- The question of life. Foucault, Cuvier, and the science of life / Mary Beth Mader -- The archaeology of biopower: from plant to animal life in The order of things / Jeffrey T. Nealon -- The biotechnological scala naturae and interspecies cosmopolitanism: Patricia Piccinini, Jane Alexander, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña / Eduardo Mendieta -- Medicine and sexuality: the question of the body. Patient activism and biopolitics: thinking through rare diseases and orphan drugs / Carlos Novas -- The biopolitics of HIV prevention discourse / David M. Halperin -- Precarious life: Butler and Foucault on biopolitics / Jana Sawicki -- Neoliberalism and governmentality: the question of the population. Who's being disciplined now?: operations of power in a neoliberal world / Todd May and Ladelle McWhorter -- Is there a biopolitical subject?: Foucault and the birth of biopolitics / Frédéric Gros ; translated by Samantha Bankston -- Discordant practices of freedom and power of/over lives: three snapshots on the bank effects of the Arab uprisings / Martina Tazzioli -- Biopower today. Biopower today / Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose -- A colonial reading of Foucault: bourgeois bodies and racial selves / Ann Laura Stoler -- Totalitarianism or biopolitics?: concerning a philosophical interpretation of twentieth century / Roberto Esposito ; translated by Timothy Campbell.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780226226590
  • 022622659X
  • 9780226226620
  • 022622662X