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positions (2020) 28 (4): 905–933.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and their survivors? How has the drug war, by instilling a biopolitics of fear, transformed the latter’s ways of seeing and being? What becomes of justice amid images of injustice? For example, how do returning spirits of the dead that appear in dreams of their families stimulate phantasms of revenge? How is revenge...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 February 2022
... . 1994 . Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate . Armonk, NY : M. E. Sharpe . Foucault Michel . 2008 . The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–79 , translated by Burchell Graham . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Fung K. K...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 159–173.
Published: 01 February 2019
... and form. The object of biopolitics is precisely life in this sense. It goes without saying that today the thinker developing the most profound theorization of “bare life” is Giorgio Agamben. In Homo Sacer he expands on Foucault’s concept of biopower, developing a study of biopolitics in line with Benjamin...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 175–207.
Published: 01 February 2019
... , translated by Kishik David Pedatella Stefan . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Anagnost Anne . 2011 . “ Strange Circulations .” In Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death , edited by Cloug Patricia Ticineto Willse Craig , 213 – 37 . Dur-ham...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 115–144.
Published: 01 February 2019
... such a methodological comparison? Reading Marx’s Capital alongside Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics clears a path for analyzing this question, revealing more clearly the revolutionary stakes of thinking Marx after Foucault and vice versa. The essay has three sections. The first section outlines this area between...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 71–101.
Published: 01 February 2014
... tactics of policing protest initiated in 2000, in the still-churning wake of the financial crisis, actively reprogrammed social memory, dramatizing a Korea of democracy and free markets. The analysis reveals the complex entanglement of biopolitics and sovereignty: the administration of neoliberal subjects...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 351–387.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., for example, money capital. Herein lies the link—in China, but also more generally in this period—between biopolitics and economic (bourgeois) nationalism, one that is not incidental or accidental, but immanent and formal. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 China republican period vital...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of personal relations they sustain, the moral conflicts and anxieties they engender, and lastly, their constitution of the body and biopolitics. The article draws attention to the reconfiguration of the economic world system through its discussion of the emergence of new nonmanufacturing sectors in Asia...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... gendered, revealing a transnational and transgenerational economy of reproductive injustice for Korean women. The essay concludes with an analysis of how a regime of reproductive injustice is a significant and gendered biopolitical effect of the Korean War. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 343–368.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., the terrorist. As the war on terror bleeds into the war on piracy, the dual logics of segregation and immunization that shape all biopolitical paradigms of security increasingly inform reports brought out by government agencies and ostensibly independent think tanks. Securitizing the global population against...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alfred Montoya Drawing on archival research and fieldwork conducted in Ho Chi Minh City and its environs in 2007–2008, this article examines a shift from a moral-economic model of protection/patronage turning on the long-standing figure of “the People,” to a biopolitical mechanism of power...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 741–767.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Plan. It was conceived as an effective population‐centric strategy of political control that relied upon a biopolitics of security that became integral to Cold War political objectives. It is within the terms of a Cold War media complex that this discussion addresses the context for “radio‐cinema...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 571–596.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and the performance of actions of cruelty, modification, and endangerment on the artist's body. Through an engagement with theories of embodiment, biopolitics, and postsocialism, this article argues that body art represents one way in which the corporeal assumes a new centrality in China's post‐1978 avant‐garde...
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 231–256.
Published: 01 May 2025
... of archival violence — biopolitical, administrative, and rhetorical. Via artistic expression, each work disrupts the nationalistic and naturalistic narrative of search and reunion and offers speculative analytics via which to imagine the connections and visions from the missing. Drawing upon their brilliant...
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 745–778.
Published: 01 August 1993
.... First, I will contrast British and Chinese citizenship policies in relationship to political, economic, and biopolitical (Foucault 1991)inter- ests, and how they are mediated by assumptions of racial and cultural worth. Next, I...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 567–589.
Published: 01 August 2009
...). The first section of this article locates suzhi jiaoyu as part of a historical strategy of biopolitics, intended to raise a generation of children who can bring China to its long-held teleological goal of wealth, power, and international respect...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1009–1039.
Published: 01 November 2012
... presupposes its protection by the state and finance capital, while neither the state nor finance capital consider it as the top priority — especially in times of crisis, like now, and then. Osugi and Uno on Biopolitics We might see this particular...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 877–906.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., his dictum — “let some become rich first” — became the guiding principle for steadfastly moving toward a capitalistic economy.14 Just as important is the biopolitical implication therein: let the rest of the population follow the handful...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
... relationships among motion picture, mobilization, life, and death. The summoning of subjects under the banner of “total mobilization,” then, is a scopic bringing-­to-­life, a visual biopolitics that structures the interpellation of both...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 503–504.
Published: 01 May 2002
... in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1998). Jon Solomon is assistant professor in the Department of Future Studies, Tamkang University. He is interested in sovereignty, biopolitics, knowledgeable bodies, and regimes of translation. ...