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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
Published: 01 May 2017
...: The Artist Is Present (dir. Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre, US, 2012), which follows Abramović through the conceptualization and enactment of the performance, this essay demonstrates how The Artist Is Present restages the quotidian practices, bodily movements, and affects fostered by biopower and emphasizes...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
... in the modalities of power and the gradual establishment of what Foucault terms “biopolitics. ”I7 Biopower is that organization of power, coincident with the development of the modern nation state, the capitalist economy, and the modern division of labor, which grad- 106 ually comes to replace the rule...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... biopower as a “power to foster life . . . capable of optimizing forces, aptitudes, and life in general,” a form of power that issues the imperative to make live, to make live better, to make alive.20 Implicit in Ouellette and Hay’s text is the argument that reality TV instantiates a movement...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 59–63.
Published: 01 May 2006
... “home” to us the necessity of saving the soul by correcting an always already abnor- mal body: thus “the soul is the prison of the body.”4 This body: we have yet to acknowledge its potential becomings, but biopower and necropolitics have unlocked its most monstrous traumas, estab- lished entire...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Foucault has shown, social control need not be harsh to be effective, and power can function by fostering and harnessing, rather than threatening, human life. If Rottenberg’s nonobjectifying practice of voyeurism has a stake in “the body in all its possibilities,” so does “biopower” — ­Foucault’s...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... that, in accounting for these representations and the injuries they reference, those Enlightenment technologies of knowledge and biopower that produce states of inhumanity need not be retrieved to imagine these women otherwise. Failure need not be overcome, rehabilitation need not be desired...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the emergence of modernity that it was only once the biological aspects of both women and men were used as a basis for political power, that biopower became the foundation of all of our political systems. Prior to this, the inherent vulnerability of women to a patriarchal sovereign state was accepted as part...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
...- ination of races and the purification of the race, to exercise its sovereign power. The juxtaposition of — or the way biopower func- tions through — the old sovereign power of life and death implies the workings, the introduction and activation, of racism.”34 Importantly, though, for Foucault...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and theoretical inroads into rethinking the ways in which power invested in the biological field as the “fostering of life” expresses its deathly corollary within relations of enmity, impunity, and the right to kill. For Mbembe, Foucauldian theories of biopower and biopolitics cannot adequately account...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... her, and this pedagogy enacts death and loss only through the mechanism of what is also kept alive. Melanie Klein argued that the death drive is undergirded by an unconscious fear of annihilation.40 This anxiety of annihilation is coupled with the workings of biopower, the suggestion (vis- à- vis...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Willis, High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997). 8. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe,” 71. 9. See Rey Chow, “From Biopower to Ethnic Difference,” in The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York...