...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines the relevance of the concept of biopower and its four seminal figures (the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the masturbating child, and the perverse adult) to our understanding of current formations of late liberal power. Through the example...

... a. kiarina kordela Biopolitics: From Tribes to Commodity Fetishism Sovereignty and Biopower in Foucault and Agamben I begin with a historical question: at what historical moment does biopower or biopolitics emerge...

.... Gender and sexual identities are arranged, in much of this work, around demonstrably defiant deviations and configurations” (74). “The growing importance assumed by the action of the norm” that Foucault associates with the emergence of biopower is not therefore separable from the emergence...

... in as ghosts do, as revenant , as an experience of recurrence History of Madness describes as the logic of the “strange return” (504). In the context of biopolitics, eros precedes bios: the bios of biopower, of our sexualized present. Another word for life, eros precedes bios as Sappho precedes Plato: we...

....18 In his account of biopower as the discursive management of life under conditions of modernity, Foucault describes the consolidation of sovereignty as the deferred threat of death and the active governance...

... techniques and totalization procedures” ( “Subject” 339, 332 ). It is through the double movement of discipline and biopower, through the simultaneous targeting of “man-as-body” and “man-as-species,” that individuals are normalized and made useful to the social body as a whole ( Society 242–43 ). To resist...

... the passions of the multitude (Multitude 329–30). This political anthropology has assumed a heightened significance in the age of biopower, especially in the wake of the collapse of cold-war geopolitics. Biopower, in brief, is a concept...

..., and emotional shape to the advent of biopower. Which Body? Since the 18th century (Foucault, Birth; Madness; Order), the embodied subject has been situated at the heart of the techniques of control and analysis aimed at conceptualizing the subject. The discursive prominence granted to the body is coextensive...

... brilliant political theories that fail to account for the possibilities of political resistance and transformation, whether Adorno’s thesis of administered society, Agamben’s notion of the camp as the hidden paradigm of modern biopower...

...-Oedipus , Foucault states that thinking through Auschwitz has become an imperative for all European intellec tuals. Certainly, Foucau lt’s genealogies of discipline, biopower, and governmentality have opened the way...

... of one of feminism’s institutional projects nor as part of a genre of texts that expose feminism’s ugly underpinnings (biopower, carcerality, governance, neoliberalism, to name a few), 3 but as an exploration of the challenges facing one iteration of institutional feminism. In thinking through...

... in the history of governing that are variously intel- ligible under the heading of biopower (81). Two items under this oft-sited heading are especially important in concluding my argument. The first is how Foucault interrogates race...

... “the dangerous intensification of life called biopower that places life itself in the balance” (181). This brings her well into the vicinity of Berlant’s focus on the widespread thanato- and necro-political erosions, the slow deaths, and the crushing moralism (those who “ought to” take but won’t have taken care...

... eros is Sapphic [. . .]. [E]ros precedes bios: the bios of biopower, of our sexualized present. Another word for life, eros precedes bios as Sappho precedes Plato: we don’t know her well. Her eros remains monstrous, unfamiliar. Eros precedes bios not in any historically absolute sense...

... wretched, we potentially fail to see the workings of the political that put us all at risk, responding to biopower with misguided biopolitics ourselves rather than understanding a gradation of value attributed to lives...

... . New York : Columbia UP , 2016 . Morton Timothy . “ What Vegetables Are Saying about Themselves .” Gagliano, Ryan, and Vieira 173 – 90 . Nealon Jeffrey T. Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2016 . Oliver Kelly . Animal Lessons: How...

... to be the precondition for an imagined interiority. Importantly, Schuller argues that woman emerges as a biopolitical subject, locatable in relation to a racialized scale of impressibility in which interiority and affect are markers of her proximity to whiteness. “Biopower,” Schuller argues, “is feminism’s enabling...

...) and The Order of Things (1966), to the (posthumanist?) later texts deal- ing with biopower and technologies of the self, such as the three volumes of The History of Sexuality (1976–84) and various interviews conducted during the final...

... the king’s power to kill and the difference between per- (restrictive power) to biopower sonal/impersonal, see Luhmann, differences...

... be regarded as a form of nongovernmental biopower. We know, of course, that Foucault was not referring explicitly to animals in his work on reforms in confinement practices. However, 110...