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Journal articles on the topic "Biopolitical strategies"
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Tan, Cera Y. J. "Circuit Breakers and Biopolitical Strategies." Cultural Politics 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797557.
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AbstractTaking as a starting point the challenge of containing the spread of epidemics, this article provides an oblique critique of the connections between biopolitics and contact tracing. Aligning the question of biopolitical strategies with epidemiology, the article follows the lines of continuity between containment strategies, contact-tracing technology, and circulations and networks. The uptake of mobile application surveillance by government entities to trace the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has seamlessly supplemented containment measures. Singapore's deployment of TraceTogether, an application developed by the Ministry of Health and Government Technology Agency, circumvents the use of geolocation tracking: formulating a network of infected bodies using proximity data, the population undergoes a topological change. Drawing on a tradition that acknowledges the transformative quality of technology and its implications on information societies, the article frames the enquiry within the parameters of Martin Heidegger's and Gilles Deleuze's deliberations on the ways in which technology is brought to bear on the biopolitical imaginary of a population. The technological rationality that, according to Heidegger, has gripped the entire horizon of thought is opened up for interruption wherever technology fails. In these slippages emerge spaces in which a critique of society's faults may be advanced. This article proposes a critical reading of application surveillance with a view to the biopolitical and philosophical implications of overdetermined network structures against the backdrop of contagion-related phenomena.
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Yatsyk, Alexandra. "Biopolitical Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK: The “Post-Truth” Coverage by RT." Social Sciences 11, no. 3 (March 18, 2022): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030139.
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This paper seeks to examine the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, France, Germany, and the UK, as covered by the Russian state media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today). I view the RT coverage through the prism of biopolitics and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to demonstrate multiple discrepancies in its “post-truth” knowledge production strategies. I argue that these strategies aim to expose the hybrid and controversial nature of biopolitical governance in Western democracies during the COVID-19 pandemic as they struggle to strike a balance between imposing social restrictions and safeguarding public health. I also show how the (post)liberal biopolitical debate on personal responsibility and state resilience in times of emergency could be applied by authoritarian regimes for self-description.
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Boucher, James. "Neoliberal Biopolitics in Michel Noël's Nipishish: Market Logic and Indigenous Resistance." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 2 (January 1, 2018): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.2.boucher.
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Abstract This article explores the imbrication of history, fiction, and biopolitics in a variety of specific confrontations between the Canadian state and the Anishnaabeg in Michel Noël's teen novel Nipishish (2004). Situated in Southwest Québec during the second half of the 20th century, the novel lends itself readily to a biopolitical reading which gleans from and expands on the theories of Foucault, Agamben, and Pratt. Focusing on deconstructing biopolitical strategies of the settler colonial state and agentive Native practices, the analysis underscores how Noël's depiction of Indigenous lifeways and resistance constitute an invaluable political message to Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth alike.
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Bergthaller, Hannes. "Ecocriticism, Biopolitics, and Ecological Immunity." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (September 30, 2020): 162–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3542.
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Ecocritics tend to think of environmentalism as a form of resistance against the anthropocentrism of Western modernity. Such a view stands in contrast to biopolitical theory, which sees modernity in terms of a naturalization of the human and a generalized effort to increase the productivity of life that cuts across species lines. Building on the work of Roberto Esposito, this process can be described as a radicalized form of ecological immunization whereby humans and their domesticates are protected from the risks that attend membership in ecological communities, resulting in an “unnatural growth of the natural” (H. Arendt). The self-destructive strategies of immunization which characterize biopolitical modernity are based on a conception of life in terms of competition over scarce resources, inevitably leading to Malthusian crises. Lynn Margulis’ understanding of evolution as symbiogenesis offers an alternative on which an affirmative biopolitics balancing the demands of immunity and community can build.
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Kelly, Stephen. "Securing Dangerous Children as Literate Subjects." Children Australia 41, no. 3 (July 21, 2016): 214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.16.
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This paper examines how the education of children as literate subjects in schools and community settings is implicated in the politics of securing civil society. Foucault's concept of biopolitics is used to consider how young people are produced as securitised subjects. The emergence of the concept of human security as a technology for measuring human development is problematised using Bacchi's methodology. The analysis uses the Northern Territory intervention to question representations of young people as subjects of danger and as potentially dangerous subjects. This paper argues that the use of literacy by the apparatus of state and non-state governmentalities functions as a technology of risk mitigation and biopolitical government: a way of contingently positioning the freedoms of children as subjects to forms of rule. The paper concludes by suggesting that literacy has been deployed as a techne of an authoritarian form of liberalism in which the power to delimit entangles children in biopolitical strategies and sovereign intervention.
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Kshevin, Nikolai, and Olga Simonenko. "BIOPOLITICS AS AN ASPECT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN NON-LIBERAL POLITICAL REGIMES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PRC)." Respublica literaria, RL. 2021. vol.2. no. 2 (March 29, 2021): 86–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.47850/rl.2021.2.2.86-97.
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The article focuses on the potential applicability of biopolitics to modern elements of public administration in non-liberal political regimes on the example of China. M. Foucault's biopolitics is a rather difficult concept to use for the analysis of modern countries of the East due to the initial connection of the concept to the Western intellectual tradition. Based on analysis of the various researches in biopolitics, we propose to look further into strategies for expanding the concept to determine the most suitable for the study of public administration in non-liberal political regimes on the example of the PRC. It is noted that modern China, being an example of a non-liberal political regime, has signs of biopolitical state governance. It is concluded that biopolitics as a technology of power over the population is not an exclusive part of liberal governance.
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Charitsis, Vassilis, Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk, and Per Skålén. "‘Made to run’: Biopolitical marketing and the making of the self-quantified runner." Marketing Theory 19, no. 3 (September 11, 2018): 347–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593118799794.
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While previous critical marketing research on co-creation has focused on how consumers’ cognitive and social abilities are governed, this article focuses on how firms’ marketing strategies attempt to govern every aspect of consumers’ lives. By drawing on a biopolitical framework and a study of Nike+, a marketing system for runners which Nike has developed around its self-tracking devices, three biopolitical marketing dimensions were identified: the gamification of the running experience, the transformation of running into a competitive activity and the conversion of running into a social activity. In identifying these marketing dimensions, the study demonstrates how self-tracking affordances are deployed in the development of a biopolitical marketing environment that tames, captures and appropriates value from different aspects of consumers’ lives, including – and combining – their social behaviours, cognitive capacities and bodily conducts. This article contributes to critical studies of value co-creation by focusing on the tamed self-tracking body as a resource for value creation, but also by demonstrating that consumers engage, through cognitive labour, in the production of the biopolitical environment that leads to their exploitation.
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Lapointe, Dominic, and Myra Coulter. "Place, Labor, and (Im)mobilities: Tourism and Biopolitics." Tourism Culture & Communication 20, no. 2 (July 3, 2020): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/109830420x15894802540160.
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Contemporary tourism is omnipresent in development discourses and policies, functioning as a "worldmaking" force in which tourism activities provide a representation and storyline that influence the tourist and their behavior, thus becoming a form of social production. Justifying the inclusion of biopolitics as a response to the questions raised by the worldmaking tenet, this article aims to set the concept of biopolitics as the articulation between dominant structures and agency. As contemporary social life and the reproduction of society are integrated into the scope of market capitalism, and the state exerts its role as protector of the "free" market, biopolitics functions through the internalization of the rules of conduct by individuals, as well as through the economic integration of previously noneconomic spheres. Conducting a systematic literature review to expose the presence of the biopolitical lens in tourism research reveals the relevance of pursuing critical and unconventional research strategies. A diverse yet limited corpus of texts has developed in the context of the persistence and pervasiveness of both biopolitics and tourism in complex and uneven global social, political, and spatiotemporal systems and networks, highlighting new theoretical constellations rooted primarily in Foucauldian biopolitics. This essay uncovers a powerful entanglement of nonlinear and multiscalar tourism elements, and calls for ambitiously undertaking tourism research to address tourism discourses, structures, and practices in place and society.
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Gimenes, Gabriel De Freitas, and Rosane Azevedo Neves Silva. "Statements production in current biopolitical strategies: the issue of quality of life." Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social 17, no. 1 (March 7, 2017): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1770.
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Mackenzie, Robin. "How the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion and the Neuroscience of Dehumanization/Rehumanization Can Contribute to Animal Activists’ Strategies: Bestia Sacer II." Society & Animals 19, no. 4 (2011): 407–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853011x590051.
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AbstractJuxtaposing the continental philosophy of inclusion/exclusion and the cognitive and affective neuroscience of dehumanization, infrahumanization, and rehumanization may inform animal activists’ strategies. Both fields focus upon how we decide who counts and who doesn’t. Decisions over who’s human (or like us) and who isn’t (i.e., who’s an animal, or not like us) are not simply about species membership but involve biopolitical value judgments over who we wish to include or exclude. Posthumanists seek to disrupt the biopolitics of inclusion/exclusion, partly to heal ethical and political relations between human and nonhuman animals. Calarco calls this jamming Agamben’s anthropological machine. Bestia Sacer are those designated as included or excluded, moving among zones of humans, nonhuman animals, and things. Cognitive and affective neuroscience describes how mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion function in dehumanization, infrahumanization, and rehumanization. Humans assign varying degrees of humanity to others according to in-group/out-group status in judgments open to manipulation. Investigating how these mechanisms operate in human perceptions of nonhuman animals may inform activist strategies, transforming ethical and political relations between humans and nonhuman animals and end the exclusion of Bestia Sacer.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Biopolitical strategies"
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Fiaccadori, Elisa. "Between the exception and biopolitical security : a critical discourse analysis of US and EU securitization strategies post-9/11." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6476/.
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In line with Carl Schmitt’s characterization of the sovereign as ‘he who decides on the state of exception’, Giorgio Agamben argues that the exception is not only central to contemporary security developments but is increasingly becoming the rule. Starting from a critical exploration of biopolitics and sovereignty in the works of both Agamben and Foucault, through a theoretically informed discursive analysis, this thesis explores three important instances of securitization discourse, whose conceptualizations of sovereignty and security it uses to explain how exactly ‘the (state of) exception’ is generalized in the context of the war on terror. These are two US National Security Strategies (2002; 2006) and the European Security Strategy (2004). What the analysis of these documents, and in particular of the NSSs, demonstrates is that, as Agamben suggests, the exception is indeed essential to an articulation of sovereign power at the national level. It is through the decision on the exception exemplified by the decision on the enemy (i.e., terrorism) and the best means to combat it that the US tries to secure its status as a powerful state, legitimize a global leading role for itself in the war on terror. However, what it also shows is that whilst the theme of emergency is constitutive in different ways of both the US and EU (bio)political foreign policy and sovereignty, the attempt to ‘generalize the (state of) exception’ also relies on other mechanisms of (bio)power or (bio)security. These mechanisms of (bio)security, I argue, are operationalized differently from the logic of exception, but are not unconnected to it. They permit the globalization of (the state of) exception in the form of what I have called a ‘global (bio)emergency-State’, whose primary enabler is the US state and of which the EU is an active, if ‘indirect’, participant. This thesis argues that the logic of exception and security are in fact coextensive. However, contrary to Agamben, it claims that they are not coextensive in the absolute sense of being one and the same as his understanding of biosovereignty implies. They are coextensive in the very specific senses of the logic of exception finding its continuation in the transformation of security into strategic objective at both US national and European level.
Books on the topic "Biopolitical strategies"
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Papanikolaou, Dimitris. Greek Weird Wave. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474436311.001.0001.
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This book is the first to provide a reading of the recent ‘Weird’ or ‘New Wave’ of Greek cinema, both through the concept of biopolitics and in the context of contemporary World Cinema politics, aesthetics, as well as production and circulation strategies. Its main aim is to show the ways in which, since the beginning of the 21st century, cinema and other cultural forms in Greece have responded to a sense of Crisis and an ever expansive management of life that we have now come to call biopolitics. Through close cultural and film analysis, the Greek Weird Wave is proposed as a paradigmatic cinema of biopolitical realism, a trend observable more widely in world cinema today. Key films such as Yorgos Lantimos’s Dogtooth, Alps and The Lobster, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg, Syllas Tzoumerkas’s Homeland, Alexandros Avranas’s Miss Violence and Panos H. Koutras’s Strella, are read together with less well-known short, medium and feature-length films by directors such as Konstantina Kotzamani, Yorgos Zois, Vassilis Kekatos, Alexandros Voulgaris, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Babis Makridis. At the same time, the book offers an analysis of the larger cultural context of 21st-century Greece, often explaining the films’ major thematic and formal choices through references to contemporary novels, theatre performances, activist texts and political events.
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Vinter, Maggie. Last Acts. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823284269.001.0001.
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Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grieving than as an action to be performed, well or badly. Active deaths belie the narratives of helplessness and loss most often used to analyze representations of mortality and instead suggest ways that marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some of these strategies for dying resonate with ecclesiastical forms or with descriptions of biopolitics within the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by writers including Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson alongside both devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.
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Wilmer, S. E., and Audrone Zukauskaite. Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Weinreb, Alice. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605094.003.0001.
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This chapter uses changes in international perceptions of the German body over the course of the twentieth century—from starving victims of the First World War to the “fattest people in Europe” by the end of the century—as a way of thinking about the key themes of this book. It describes the book’s methodology, which builds on Foucault’s theory of governmentality to describe the ways in which modern states rely on the food system to control populations’ bodies. It thus shows how food opens up the category of biopolitics. At the same time, food represents crucial strategies of resistance and self-expression for individuals and communities, thus pushing at the limits of state power. This chapter also discusses the ways in which hunger is an important political category for industrialized economies.
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O'Donnell, S. Jonathon. Passing Orders. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823289677.001.0001.
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Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare” demonologies in contemporary America, which envision the world as built on a clash of divine and demonic forces in which humanity is enmeshed. Situating spiritual warfare in the context of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire-management, it exposes the theological foundations that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current US political order—queer- and transphobia, Islamophobia, antiblackness, and settler colonialism. The book argues that demonologies are not merely tools of dehumanization but ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies: models of the “right ordering” of reality that create uneven geographies of space and stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Demonologies constitute and consolidate these geographies and stratifications by enabling the framing of other orders as passing orders—as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. But these orders are unwilling to pass on, instead giving structure to deviant desires that resist sovereign power. Demonstrating these structures of resistance in demonologies of three figures—the Jezebel spirit, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan—Passing Orders explores how demons exceed their designated role as self-consolidating others to embody alternative possibilities that unsettle orthotaxic claims over territory, time, and truth. Ultimately, it reimagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.
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Saraçoglu, M. Safa. Nineteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430999.001.0001.
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This book explores Ottoman local governance during the liberal-capitalist state formation of the long 19th century (1789-1922) with a particular focus on the administrative and judiciary councils of the Vidin County in the second half of the 19th century. It explains the structure and procedures of these councils and provides an analysis of their function in local politics and economics in addition to an examination of their correspondence and people who worked in the governmental sphere dominated by these councils. Between 1396 and 1878, Vidin was a town under Ottoman administration and became a county centre in the Danube Province when an imperial reform restructured provincial governance and redefined imperial administrative divisions in 1864. The processes explored here focus mostly on the individuals’ rights to the means of production because a majority of the disputes within and petitions from the provinces during the nineteenth century were concerned with property and taxation. Local agents and groups engaged with each other within the judicio-administrative sphere dominated by these councils and sought to advance their interests by using the language, rules and practices of Ottoman governance. This book argues that in 19th century Vidin, we do not see a binary opposition between a state that coerces transformation against a society that opposes reforms. Vidiners, including the notables and the less wealthy inhabitants utilized the judicio-administrative sphere as a hegemonic domain to pursue their strategies as they problematized proper governance (debating matters of property, security, market order and population) as part of Ottoman biopolitics.
Book chapters on the topic "Biopolitical strategies"
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique." In Empire Under the Microscope, 205–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_6.
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AbstractIn this chapter Taylor-Pirie illuminates how the microbiological imagination made its mark on anxious imperial fictions by close reading H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) and John Masefield’s Multitude and Solitude (1909) alongside parasitologists’ characterisations of parasite-vector-host relationships. The anthropocentric semantics of war, violence, and criminality characterised tropical illness as another form of colonial insurrection, bolstering the biopolitical power of medicine as an extension of the disciplinary law-and-order state. She interrogates the collision of the ‘medicine as war’ metaphor with a medicalised concept of ‘the Other’ to think through biomedical and national identity—as well as the discomforting agency of non-human vectors—in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald’s ‘Wingéd Death’ (1934), and the poetry and correspondence of parasitologists. Taylor-Pirie examines how vengeful insects, alien invasions, microbial villains, and the supernatural gave shape to the anxiety that Britain’s geopolitical relationships were immersing the imperial capital in a global marketplace of pathogens. By excavating the medical and political contexts of popular cultural forms like the vampire, she historicises lexes of contagion and parasitism that persist in contemporary political discourse surrounding immigration.
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Hennig, Anja. "Discursive Strategies of Catholic Churches in Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation: Poland and Spain in Comparison." In Religion and Biopolitics, 33–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14580-4_2.
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Campbell, Timothy C. "The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank." In Systems of Life, 236–54. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823281725.003.0010.
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This chapter aims to measure the biopolitical stakes of Darwin’s thinking of variability and natural selection in a historical ontology of ourselves today. When most contemporary ontologies point to catastrophe and mass extinction, what kinds of aesthetic and political strategies does a biopolitical reading of Darwin make available? One possibility, the chapter argues, is through a reconsideration of comedy and its associated pratfalls, the result of the law of gravity having been exiled from Darwin’s Origin of Species.
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Hollister, Lucas. "Ghosts (Jean Echenoz)." In Beyond Return, 132–94. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942180.003.0004.
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In this chapter, I examine how Jean Echenoz transforms and repurposes popular genres—specifically crime fiction and the war novel--in subtly political manners. Through readings of Echenoz’s (anti-)mystery novel A Year (1997) and his short war novel 1914 (2012), I show how Echenoz smuggles biopolitical and spectral problematics into his works, enlarging the conceptual scope of popular story forms and genre fictions. My reading of Echenoz positions him not as a writer that brings us back to the pleasures of story, but rather as a writer who demonstrates how we can alter the generic conventions and narrative strategies of popular violent fiction in order to account for biopolitical exclusion and mediated phantom pain. Echenoz is thus a writer who shows us some ingenious strategies for rethinking the uses of forms and genres.
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Newman, Lenore Lauri, and Katherine Alexandra Newman. "Scripting the City: Street Food, Urban Policy, and Neoliberal Redevelopment in Vancouver, Canada." In Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036573.003.0013.
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The reintroduction of food trucks to Vancouver responds to widespread public demand, yet has also been taken up as another tool of urban governance. Licensing restrictions are used to further municipal policy priorities, thus incorporating street food into city branding and urban redevelopment strategies. Although crafted to foster liveability, food truck licensing is also expected to advance the goal of making Vancouver the Greenest City and to project an image of a healthy, sustainable, multicultural city. While street food is being made increasingly accessible, it is simultaneously becoming a tool of biopolitical regulation. As food trucks participate in shaping urban space, they risk contributing to gentrification and the displacement of the very residents this increased accessibility is meant to serve.
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Martire, Jacopo. "The Normalising Complex and the Challenges of Virtualisation." In A Foucauldian Interpretation of Modern Law. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411929.003.0004.
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In the present chapter, the author, drawing from his genealogical account, argues that modern law and biopolitical strategies of normalization are not to be conflated but came to work in a symbiotic fashion. Modern law itself functions as a normalizing apparatus, insofar as practices of normalization are capable of creating a seemingly homogeneous social body upon which the discourse of law can legitimately inscribe the universalism of the modern legal subject. Modern law and discipline/governmentality thus form a normalizing complex. Building on Bauman and Deleuze’s theories, the author indicates that this picture is changing as we are moving towards an understanding of the individual as a “virtual” entity, which is at odds with the normalizing paradigm that informs modern law and is unhinging the normalizing complex. The discourse of modern law in contemporary societies, faced with virtual individuals which increasingly challenge categories of normalization, is therefore caught into a double crisis: a normative one (how can normalizing laws properly reflect the wills of a mass of differentiates virtual individuals?), and a functional one (how can normalizing laws effectively regulate a new protean social body?).
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Shilling, Chris. "4. Governing bodies." In The Body: A Very Short Introduction, 60–79. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198739036.003.0005.
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Theories of governance—how rule or regulation is accomplished across nations, institutions, and organizations—have long included a focus on strategies states pursue in seeking to control and develop the bodily capacities of their citizens. In so doing, they raise questions about how states conceptualize the bodies which they seek to govern; which aspects of people’s embodied beings they value; and the resistance they may confront when attempting to implement their policies and achieve their aims. ‘Governing bodies’ considers the thoughts of sociologist Bryan S. Turner; French philosopher Michel Foucault, who focused on the transition from medieval to modern forms of governance; and issues of security and biopolitics.
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Caponi, Sandra. "Lo Normal Como Categoría Sociológica." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 48–56. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199842774.
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Building on criticism directed against August Comte by Georges Canguilhem, I analyze Émile Durkheim's usage of the "normality-pathology" typology and show that these concepts do not support the organicist metaphor or the analogy between the social and the individual body. Rather, as suggested by Ian Hacking, these concepts are linked to the use of statistics and the Quetelian media, tools which allow us to understand social phenomena on populational terms. Thus, from the application of biological and statistical categories to sociological analysis, a kind of speech is born which enjoys solidarity with strategies of administration and management of the masses. This Foucault called the "biopolitics of the population."
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Ryan, Kevin. "Governing the future: children’s health and biosocial power." In Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719095870.003.0002.
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This chapter builds an analysis around the health aspects of theNational Strategy for Research and Data on Children’s Lives 2011-2016.Adopting a genealogical approach to the present, it explores the meaning of ‘health’ – in the case of children – in the context of the Department of Health’s Policy Framework for a Healthier Ireland 2012-2020.Drawing on Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, the chapter argues that what is unique to the intersection of ‘childhood’ and ‘health’ is the way this articulates what might be described as a ‘biosocial imperative’: the ways in which ‘incomplete’ life is strategically acted upon through social technologies with a view to governing the future.By approaching the National Strategy via the past, this chapter shows how we have moved from biosocial technologies whereby childhood is a means to securing strategic ends, to a biosocial apparatus that constructs children as actors to be acted upon with a view to governing the future.
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Cimini, Amy. "Adjacencies and Its Negations." In Wild Sound, 50–103. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060893.003.0002.
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“How can worlds of sound be joined?” While Amacher developed this question in realized and unrealized concert music during the mid-1960s, it also conjoined spectral and spatial ways of listening in her inaugural broadcast and environmental projects, City-Links WBFO, Buffalo, and In City, Buffalo 1967 on much different historical and material terrain. A close look at conceptual and notational strategies in Amacher’s electroacoustic percussion work Adjacencies illuminates her musical thought at an early stage and reveals how spectral listening could function as meeting place within which sound and ongoing life exchange intensities elsewhere. Critical comparisons with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I (1964) and Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 9 for Amplified Shoveller Quartet (1969) elaborate how musical forms and experiences amid resonant metals, dramaturgy, and promissory grammar can work in concert or in conflict with historical spaces of biopolitics. Following Adjacencies’ archival traces across the radio broadcast City-Links and festival-like In City moves its connective ways of listening into concrete changes amid so-called redevelopment in urban history and policy debates, entwining social histories and media aesthetics that will inform Amacher’s long-distance projects in the decade to follow.