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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... convergence, the article maps the supplemental transactions between the medial inscription of liveness and the biopolitical imperative to make live. It argues that reality TV's preoccupation with the obese body functions as a mechanism for the negotiation and containment of the medium's own anxieties over its...
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The Ghost in the Machine: The Biopolitics of Memory in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of neoliberalism demonstrates that embodiment in digital image networks emerges as a mode of intervention into the biopolitics of memory. Embodiment becomes the ghost in the machine of the film’s vision of neoliberal labor and memory markets. By focusing on the particular aesthetic means by which the film thinks...
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Biopolitical Masochism in Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
Published: 01 May 2017
... be read in the current context of biopolitics. The author contends that many critical analyses of Abramović's performance, which focus on details of the performer's personal history, have not adequately addressed such political questions regarding her work. Drawing on the documentary film Marina Abramović...
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Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Cuarón's film deploys certain cinematic strategies to represent difference: from disjunctures between sound and image and a cinematic obsession with lingering on “incidental” details that lends them allegorical significance to an extended chase sequence. The place of race and biopolitics in this film...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and the exploitation of bodily secretions such as tears, sweat, and fingernails. Drawing on the writings of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, I argue that Rottenberg's works meditate on how women's bodies are reshaped and rendered productive by the shift from industrial production to “biopolitical production.” Camera...
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., independent white hetero femininity that indexed several entangled biopolitical concerns of the early 1960s: the remnants of the lavender scare, the burgeoning feminist movement, and the changing status of whiteness in postwar America. The essay explores the way in which this white femininity was produced...
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Sense and Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to war and technologies
of death, and, second, as a biopolitical dilemma, psychically dam-
aged and physically partial refugees, whose deviations from the
physiological norm bring them under medical surveillance in the
Camera Obscura 76, Volume 26, Number 1
doi 1 0 . 1 2 1 5 / 0 2 7 0 5 3 4...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on Judge Judy? • 187
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Theoretical explorations in post-9/11 America prompt us to take
Michel Foucault’s cue and extend his model of biopolitical con-
trol. The (heterosexual) family, we now know, is no longer the sole
instrument of “governmentality” wielded...
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Volume Index
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... – 59
Misha Kavka
Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore.
No. 88: pp. 101 – 27
Misha Kavka, see Lynne Joyrich, Misha Kavka, and Brenda R. Weber
Michael Litwack
Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity
Programming. No. 88: pp. 41 – 69...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 290–291.
Published: 01 January 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Contributors
Anne Balsamo teaches in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her most recent publications examine
the cultural logic of cyberspace and the biopolitics...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... relations of enmity, impunity, and the right to kill. For Mbembe, Foucauldian theories of biopower and biopolitics cannot adequately account for the various forms of contemporary state-sponsored death, including exposure to death, which may not always result in death but nonetheless constitutes a key...
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The Future Is a Monster
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 59–63.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., sexualized, animalized
others have come to prefigure both the risky future and the pres-
ent to be transcended.
These biopolitical practices normalize the self’s nonhu-
man becomings as the decisive technology of risk management
in the time of counterterrorism.7 Giorgio Agamben maps the
zone...
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi's Landscape Series #1 (2013) and the Limits of Search and Destroy
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 90–117.
Published: 01 May 2025
... of a racializing “visual biopolitics” instructing who deserves to live through who gets to be seen as human—and likewise, I argue, who gets to be human by harnessing what Nicholas Mirzoeff calls “the right to look.” 9 If the right to look makes claims to autonomy and “to a political subjectivity...
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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
... seemingly weakening, the mediating power of race and its social grip. 5 Charting the “visual biopolitics” of yellowness, borrowing Fatimah Tobing Rony's term, this article's main goal is not to dwell on an iconography of racial stereotyping but to reconsider the aesthetic and epistemic logics that grant...
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Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... Alexander R. Galloway, “Black Box, Black Bloc,” in
Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and
Contemporary Struggles, ed. Benjamin Noys (Brooklyn, NY:
Autonomedia, 2011), 237 – 52.
2. Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and policing, these films brilliance is enhanced by their understanding of gender as the site of libera- tion par excellence a biopolitical move that transcends whiteness through gender. The biopolitics of the superhuman white woman collides with the geographies of brownness, maintaining or extend- ing...
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How Pictures Make Bodies and Bodies Make Pictures: Gender as a Scopic System in Annie Leibovitz’s Photographs of Caitlyn Jenner for Vanity Fair and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2020
... or Gender as a Scopic System 31 her self- pathologization, self- discipline, and self- affirmation. Jemima Repo, The Biopolitics of Gender (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 51. 15. Andrea Long Chu, The Wrong Wrong Body: Notes on Trans Phenomenology, TSQ 4, no. 1 (2017): 143. 16. Prosser...
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The Anthropocene as Cinematic View: Time, Matter, and Race in Blade Runner 2049
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to “In Focus: Film and Media Studies in the Anthropocene,” special issue, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 58, no. 2 (2019): 145. 6. Cesare Casarino and Andrea Gyenge, The Life-Image: An Essay on Biopolitical Resistance (unpublished manuscript). On the future anterior between psychoanalysis...
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Invitation to Perform Utopia and Catastrophe: On Okin Collective's Video Works
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... hand, the group’s transformation of the
gi-postures into instructions for survival reveals that the forms of
governing citizens’ security in contemporary society have corporeal
and biopolitical dimensions, however powerless they may be in the
catastrophe that the society has produced...
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Betrayed Promises: Politics and Sexual Revolution in the Films of Márta Mészáros, Miloš Forman, and Dušan Makavejev
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 77–105.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., once
again, an inquiry into “the woman question” and the revolution’s
betrayed promises for woman.
Eastern Europe is rarely the focus of a biopolitical investiga-
tion because, as a result of long-sedimented Cold War perceptions,
the very phrase “Eastern Europe” is associated...
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