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"Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015. The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years, focusing on the unique biological science that developed around this... more
This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of... more
This article reconsiders the politics and aesthetics of aftermath photography. Many critics have argued that the emerging, experimental genre of documentary photography ‘abstracts’ and renders ‘sublime’ the traumatic historical events... more
Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
... ISSN: 1092-311X. School/Discipline: Law School. Statement of Responsibility: Daniel McLoughlin. Rights: Copyright © 2010 Daniel McLoughlin and The Johns Hopkins University Press. RMID: 0020110250. DOI: 10.1353/tae.0.0118. Appears in... more
This chapter is an overview of Giorgio Agamben's engagement, in the Homo Sacer series (1995–2014), with Aristotelian philosophy. It specifically studies Agamben's attempt to deconstruct two Aristotelian conceptual oppositions fundamental... more
What is biopolitics? What kind of relationship does biopolitics establish between politics and biology? Although the etymology of the term “biopolitics” seems to suggest a straightforward meaning resulting from the relationship between... more
Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) – and no doubt other fields – have increasingly drawn on Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics to theorize a variety of new 'bio-concepts'. While there might be some theoretical value in... more
El presente artículo hace una lectura sobre la proliferación de la vio- lencia en México, Guatemala y El Salvador. Se enfocará en tres ca- sos especí␣cos de la violencia, presentes en la región, para sustentar transformaciones en la... more
We are witnessing profound changes in our societies via biosciences, biotechnologization, and digitalization. The influence and application of specific engineering rationality and cybernetic perspectives to the complex systems of living... more
Hannah Arendt's concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek to actualise envisioned... more
El presente artículo discute el fenómeno de la violencia en México, proponiendo una lectura para entenderla como parte de las formas contemporáneas de regulación de mercados de trabajo, manejo de poblaciones y acumulación de capital, en... more
In Critique of information (2002), the sociologist Scott Lash stated that our time matches the trending development of "technological forms of life". Talking about "forms of life", Lash suggests, implies positioning oneself on the... more
En las últimas décadas, una parte relevante de los esfuerzos gubernamentales públicos y privados se han abocado a desarrollar tecnologías para la recolección, el almacenamiento y el análisis de datos acerca de los vivientes. Por un lado,... more
This book examines the engagement between the United Nations’ human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations. Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with... more
The aim of this paper is to provide an interpretation of Agamben’s theological genealogy of economy that will show its significance for investigations in the field of political economy. The only way to connect the discourses of economic... more
In recent years, companies all around the world directed their concerns towards environmental issues regarding the promotion and sales of their products and services. Such developments have been theoretically debated under the terms... more
MSc. \ MA in Political Philosophy
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Using Foucault’s conceptualization of neoliberal governmentality, the present book chapter aims to demonstrate that neoliberalism is bodily experienced and entangled with South Korean young adults’ practices who spend their nighttime at... more
« Cuando Foucault dice ‘Estado’. Conversación con Arnault Skornicki », avec David J. Domínguez González et Mario Domínguez Sánchez, dans A. Skornicki, La grand Sed de Estado. Michel Foucault y la ciencias sociales, Dado Ediciones, 2017,... more
To cite this article: Mona Lilja & Stellan Vinthagen (2018): Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday resistance, Journal of Political Power To link to this article: https://doi.
'What is authority?' According to Arendt, authority in the proper sense no longer exists. Modern governments are too interested in the 'sphere of necessity', stressing our animality rather than real citizenship. Human politics implies the... more