Biopower and Biopolitics
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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
"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
A short article written for Stanford University Press on the political figure of the barbarian in contemporary migration politics.
The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help... more
Depending on how you approach it, economic justice is either an extremely old intellectual tradition or a relatively new one. From the first perspective, economic justice is part and parcel of classical political philosophy—Plato’s The... more
What is the relationship between Foucault’s concept of biopower and Deleuze’s concept of control? Despite the similarities between these two concepts, there is not a single scholarly article that solely thematizes this question, nor a... more
This book discusses the current state of affairs of Cognitive Capitalism. It is the first book in a series of three. Edited by Warren Neidich and Arne De boever. Contributions include Jonathan Beller, Franco Berardi, Jodi Dean, Patricia... more
Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
The article argues that environmental planetary discourses have coalesced into the Anthropocene crisis narrative and reformulated the state of nature apparatus of Western political theory. The Anthropocene, as an ecological state of... more
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
La felicidad de las personas se ha transformado en una cuestión de Estado. De este modo veremos desplegada una serie de encuestas que, midiendo diferentes variables, pondrán a disposición de gobiernos de todo el mundo información... more
Attention for family language planning emerged after the failure of top-down language policy-and-planning studies and experiments, and takes a theoretically very different stance on power.
Sul lavoro attuale vediamo accendersi la parola gratuità, la quale ha connotato il lavoro domestico e di cura delle donne, da sempre. Si nota la pretesa di dare una struttura radicalmente nuova al lavoro e soprattutto di escogitare nuovi... more
Resumen: Las obras de Byung-Chul Han — La sociedad del cansancio; La sociedad de la transparencia; La agonía de Eros; En el Enjambre y Psicopolítica: Neoliberalismo y nuevas técnicas de pode— recurren a varias metáforas y figuras... more
The roles of imagination have been largely missed in Foucauldian litera-tures on subjectivity and constitutive practices of care for the self. His late inquiries into the practices by which the ancients pursued subject-formation have been... more
Teniendo como objetivo indagar en los aspectos constitutivos de nuestros actuales marcos de gobierno, para una conjunto de investigaciones desarrolladas a nivel internacional, los conceptos de biopolítica y gubernamentalidad se han... more
La nature en ville dans un contexte de densification, étude portant sur l'archéologie de l'écologie urbaine. Comportant une analyse comparative des processus d'urbanisation au 19ème et de gentrification au 21ème. Une recherche sur la... 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
Informal communities of Russian artists and intellectuals during the late Soviet years practiced a “politics of indistinction.” They claimed to be uninterested in anything political and differentiated themselves from ordinary “Soviet... more
Jill Schostak and I wrote this book as part of our evolving interest in doing research radically. By radically we mean engaging with people's voices to learn how to create the conditions for social justice and for democratising all the... more
In riferimento a un personale percorso di ricerca nel campo all'antropologia medica, l'Autore presenta, in forma provvisoria, appunti che riflettono sulla elaborazione di una prospettiva "italiana" nel rapporto fra antropologia medica e... more
Libro: Adolfo Vásquez Rocca, PETER SLOTERDIJK; ESFERAS, HELADA CÓSMICA Y POLÍTICAS DE CLIMATIZACIÓN, Colección Novatores, Nº 28, Editorial Institución Alfons el Magnànim (IAM), Valencia, España, 2008 I.S.B.N.: 978-84-7822-523-1 –Si hay... more
The notions of " biopolitics " and " biopower " enjoy commonsensical plausibility in many fields of humanities today. From philosophy and sociology through cultural and gender studies up to various forms of contemporary political... more
Esta composición analiza la relación entre la violencia y el derecho desde los aportes de la teología política y la biopolítica, especialmente, a partir de Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault y Giorgio Agamben, respectivamente.... more
This dissertation analyzes the postfeminist tendencies and biopolitics in contemporary media practices by considering the pop culture exemplar, the Kardashian-Jenner family. This dissertation received First Class Honors from Trinity... more
RESUMEN - Sloterdijk –señala en Normas para el Parque Humano que “...los hombres de ser un simple rebaño conducido y guiado por pastores privilegiados, ...... Los pueblos nómadas y ganaderos se transformaron después de muchos siglos en... more
ABSTRACT: The article examines the 'legend' and literary tradition of the "Negro comegente" (man-eating Negro) or “El Negro Incógnito” (“the indecipherable black man”), which emerged in the Dominican Republic at the end of the 18th... more
Resumen: Esta contribución intenta un acercamiento al fenómeno de la pandemia del virus Corona desde el patrón de discurso de la hermenéutica filosófica, en particular desde la ontología de la actualidad inaugurada por Gianni Vattimo. El... more
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations... more
Preámbulo: El siguiente manuscrito, tiene por propósito desarrollar una exposición documentada acerca del concepto de biopolítica en el pensamiento filosófico de Michel Foucault. Será posible, por ello, identificar diferentes estratos que... more
A discussion of the wise stance in biomedical research as an epistemological attitude that systematically combines multiple perspectives, coupled with a reflection on the path-dependent politics of biomedical knowledge production.
Tesis de maestría que sostiene que el biopoder es la forma del poder político contemporáneo. La primera parte es una genealogía de los conceptos biopolítica y biopoder en Foucault, la segunda parte intenta desarrollar la idea de biopoder... more
¿Quién podría oponerse a llevar una vida saludable? Más allá de que no siempre se consiga, de lo duro que resulte abandonar algunos hábitos y placeres, "llevar una vida saludable" parece ser la vía regia para disfrutar de esa dulzura... more
This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning the dual problematics of... more
This article puts forward two main arguments. First, it highlights the relation between different phases of neoliberalism in Morocco together with the specific methods and techniques of urban government that were deployed in efforts to... more
ENGLISH - An introduction to the political thought of Michel Foucault. - - - ITALIANO - Il problema del potere nel pensiero di Foucault è un tema molto ampio, che il filosofo ha elaborato nel corso degli anni muovendo da prospettive di... more
Mientras la biopolítica administra la vida y construye estilos de vida, la necropolítica administra la muerte y destruye hábitats y pueblos. La pregunta es si esta polarización en los objetivos hace a estos conceptos opuestos, o al... more