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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 28–43.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Rachel Conrad Bracken Abstract This article situates early twentieth-century Latinx fiction within the intertwined histories of public health and border surveillance along the Rio Grande to reveal a “borderland biopolitics” unique to the US-Mexico border region. Drawing on three early twentieth...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 45–60.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., posthumanism, com m unism , systems theory, and biopolitics in a range o f d if­ ferent disciplines.2 W hat most, if not all, of these new approaches have in com m on is the desire to move beyond the language- and culture-centered limits of theoretical postmodernism and what the object-oriented ontologist...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2016
... security," which involved the protection of the national population against regularly occurring internal threats through increasingly specialized sub­ fields such as epidemiology, demography, and s ta tis tic s .4 This biopolitical management at the level of population coincided w ith a striking transform...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 143–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... e r 2 0 1 6 Sophia Hsu is a doctoral candidate in English at Rice University. Her dissertation examines the V ictorian novel, ideas of population, and biopolitical theory. Chris Kelleher is a PhD Candidate in the Departm ent of English, Chancellor Jackman Junior Fellow, and a Junior Fellow at Massey...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and other life for degradation, about making live and letting die. Along w ith EDGE, In Pieces demonstrates how biodiversity methods place nonhuman and not ju st human life w ith in a biopolitical regime. Selection is essential to a biopolitical program, but, to operate at the level of the population...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 17–21.
Published: 01 April 2023
... hospital beds, will inevitably be drawn into a eugenics sinkhole. It is here that biopolitics and thanatopolitics display unity, whereas in other contexts the two might have seemed oppositional. The urge to let live and the urge to let die morph nicely into each other. To let live, doctors must let die...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 180–190.
Published: 01 October 2022
...” as a switchpoint of desire and thus a direct apprehension of the representation of racialized alternative world building. 25 Altschuler, “Touching The Scarlet Letter ,” 99 . 24 Morrison, Beloved , 93 . 23 McRuer, Queer Renaissance , 74 . 22 Mitchell and Snyder, Biopolitics , 99...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 149–150.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and critical theory. He is the author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and Insistence o f the Material: Literature in the Age o f Biopolitics (forthcoming, University o f Minnesota Press, 2014). C h ris to p h e r C a s tig lia is liberal arts research professor atThe...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the political and biological converge.1 Similarly, I offer the census and the dis­ course of demography as another mode through w hich various bodies convene so as to turn the mass body of the population into a site of biopolitical securitization. As an apparatus of demographic citation, the census enumerated...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lenora Hanson Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 C o n t a g io u s r e v o l u t io n a n d C o l o n ia l S ec u rit iza t io n Lenora Hanson In his 20 03 essay, "N ecropolitics," Achille Mbembe argued tha t biopolitics had failed to address the mass zones of death...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 71–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
... novels, this translates into scrutinizing family romance as the narrative of biopolitical production by which the Empire installs and reproduces itself on the subjective as well as the geopolitical level (22). In other words, the multinational eco­ nomic structure impinges on and produces the psychic...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... it is the “refugee”—particularly if contained within the biopolitical nomos of “the camp”—and not the “citizen” in the Romantic fantasy of their natal site, who is the “contemporary political subject par excellence,” because the category of the refugee highlights the fictive nature of the sovereign condition...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 9–21.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the political com ­ m unity decides on the way in w hich we think not only the political and the social sciences but also the natural sciences and m edicine."21 That political grip on the ontology of life w h at Agamben terms the "ontologicál-biopolitical machine of the W e st,"22 to reference the rootedness...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2015
... "totalitarian" other w hile also refusing to romanticize life outside its political grasp. Christopher Vials University of Connecticut NOTES 1 Michel Foucault, The Birth o f Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 67. ...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
... , 2018 , 6:52 a.m. twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1009071403918864385 . Weheliye Alexander G. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . E-Duke book. ...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2015
... absorbed a m odel o f m odern p o w e r as productive gove rn m e nta lity rather than sovereignty in Foucault's terms. The concepts o f biopolitics and biopow er, derived fro m a com b in a tio n of late Foucault and G iorgio Agam ben, is the m ost recent reiteration of this concept, as queer th eory...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Leoneans interpret their experience through English words like psychosocial and trauma , Shepler claims, they are rewarded with humanitarian aid, casting sensitization as a conglomerate of “power, rhetoric, and pedagogy”: a biopolitical apparatus through which Western conceptions of health and therefore...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the biopolitical such that there’s no way to push against or to resist those forces? You could ask the same questions of late capitalism or neoliberalism; everything seems to get caught in the machinery. EC : You said last time we spoke that anything that aims for transformation is critique. But is critique...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 81–90.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of destruction: a cold and objectified biopolitics which disregards the value of life by means o f a reductive interpretation o f nature." She compares the juxtaposition, as a whole, to the transposed hand in Rembrandt's painting, suggesting that the kind of thinking that underpins this association is sim ilar...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to read V irilio 's ideas on m o b iliza tio n and speed in rela tio n to ideas on the biopolitical m anagem ent of populations th a t has emerged from the w ork o f M ichel Fou­ cau lt and Giorgio Agam ben. We m ight say th a t at the least V irilio 's concerns w ith m ilita ry speed have relevance...