, and biopower as a way of understanding the film beyond narrative and structure. In doing so, I draw on recent developments in phenomenological film theory as well as affect film theory. We have to pay attention to the film’s affective impact to better
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Porous Bodies
Corporeal Intimacies, Disgust and Violence in a COVID-19 World
Cynthia Sear
the working class and Global South (e.g. Prose 2020 ). Further, these corporeal performances are a form of ‘biopower’: ‘techniques [which achieve] the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations’ ( Foucault 1978: 140 ; and qtd in Sear 2020
Eduard Ballesté
subjects themselves are passive objects of surveillance and internal control (biopower), creating a dividing line between the normal and non-normal ( Foucault [1979] 2009 , 2003 ). This process also has a direct impact on social movements. My
International Biopolitics
Foucault, Globalisation and Imperialism
M.G.E. Kelly
In this article, I present a new Foucauldian reading of the international, via Foucault's concept of 'biopolitics'. I begin by surveying the existing Foucauldian perspectives on the international, which mostly take as their point of departure Foucault's concept of 'governmentality', and mostly diagnose a 'global governmentality' or 'global biopolitics' in the current era of globalisation. Against these majority positions, I argue that analysis of the contemporary international through the lens of Foucauldian biopolitics in fact shows us that our world system is marked by a parasitic imperialism of rich sovereign states over poor ones, carried on at the level of populations.
Foucault
Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age
Andrew Johnson
In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a 'secret history of the police' where greater attention is paid to public health, social welfare and regulating the marketplace than investigating and arresting criminals. This broad overview of Foucault's writings on the police exhibits a 'splintering-effect' in his modalities of power. To resolve this apparent contradiction, a nominalist reading that conflates Foucault's divergent paradigms of power results in a more multifaceted history and a ubiquitous mode of power with diverse and precise techniques. There are strengths and weaknesses in Foucault's theory when applied to modern neoliberal police. Foucault should not be employed for one-dimensional criticisms of modern police or as an analytical cure-all.
Nikolay Domashev and Priyanka Hutschenreiter
challenging theoretical terrains of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt. Ultimately, the contributors choose not to engage the seemingly appropriate paradigms of biopower and governmentality resident in Foucault's writings, but
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 57–59 (3 total)
Brian Bergen-Aurand
biopower and its overcoming. Eliza Deac traces the relation between genre and gender from the Romantics to today in her study of one of the earliest hypertext fictions, Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995), where an engagement with the tensions between
Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks
A Word on Life as Biological Asset
Jennifer E. Telesca
, at least in principle. To appreciate why population is an important category of technocratic rule, I reference what Foucault called in disparate texts “biopower,” or the forms of power exercised over living beings—as populations—to assure their very
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 144–160 (17 total)
Experiments in Excreta to Energy
Sustainability Science and Bio-Necro Collaboration in Urban Ghana
Brenda Chalfin
into energy sources. The limits of biopower to adequately capture these processes are not lost upon foundational theorists of energopower ( Howe 2014 ; Szeman 2014: 457 ), who note that ‘neither states nor concepts of biopower effectively capture all
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 88–104 (17 total)
Laurent Berger
in French to three distinct categories of totality: collectif d'associations (Latour), agencement (Deleuze), and dispositif de savoir/pouvoir (Foucault). But this Foucauldian notion, reduced to the idea of biopower, allows an alternative