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Profits and Predation in the Human Bioeconomy

Ruben Andersson
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 413–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912115
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ruben Andersson This article starts with an observation made by many migrants and refugees stuck at Europe’s borders: that reception and detention facilities have become a money spinner and a racket. In conversation with the extensive literature on the biopolitics of borders, the article approaches...
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The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China's Geobody

William A. Callahan
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 141–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-024
Published: 01 January 2009
... and bounded sovereign territory, and to show how the cartography of national humiliation informs the biopolitics of the geobody. China's often unique experience, the essay concludes, can show us how cartography is an important site of struggle for other peoples as well. Copyright 2009 by Duke University...
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Captive: Zoometric Operations in Gaza

Irus Braverman
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 191–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644457
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and animalization. By defining the degrees of their relative humanity and animality, these rituals render life and death more or less worthy. I coin the term zoometrics to refer to the detailed calculations of biopolitical worthiness that occur within and along the animal-human divide. Such zoometric accounts...
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The Afterlives of a Killing: Assassination, Thanatos , and the Body Politic in South Asia

Townsend Middleton
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 85–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189179
Published: 01 January 2018
... the semiotic and sociopolitical technologies through which assassinations—and public killings of other kinds— take life . Introducing nekros / thanatos as the necrotic equivalent to the zoê / bios distinction that has been central to the study of biopolitics, the article plots a pursuit of—and analytics...
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Dark Ages and Bright Futures: Youth, Disability, and Time in Kashmir

Deepti Misri
Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 539–565.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8358710
Published: 01 September 2020
... two strands of disability studies: liberal approaches that emphasize the celebration of disability and biopolitical critiques that foreground the violent production of debilitation, to consider how Kashmiri visual production suggests a vision of crip futures for those now living with disabilities...
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What Is Just Translation?

Emily Apter
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742208
Published: 01 January 2021
... scripts of biopolitical surveillance and patrol relied on in forcible-entry raids, stop and frisk, and executions of orders to “report and deport.” Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 untranslatability political philology translation justice This article is conceived as the fourth...
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Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures

Jerome Whitington
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427511
Published: 01 May 2016
... unpredictability of nonlinear transformations that arise in the conjunction of human and nonhuman systems. 2016 climate change uncertainty biopolitics infrastructure vital systems water adaptation The anticipation of climate change as matter for urban planning has precipitated a substantial return...
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Airpocalypse: Distributions of Life amidst Delhi’s Polluted Airs

D. Asher Ghertner
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816329
Published: 01 January 2020
... of diffusing the citizen body into a biopolitical object whose life is defined epidemiologically in terms of physiological norms and developmental standards: “mean lung functioning,” lung growth rates, and cardiovascular risk become the stand-ins for a citizen body under threat. 22 Reflecting Michel...
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Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods

Peter Redfield
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443592
Published: 01 January 2012
...? The logics and limits of neoliberalism . Journal of Public Policy 33 , no. 1 : 27 – 48 . Collier Stephen J . 2011 . Post-Soviet social: Neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Collier Stephen J. Lakoff Andrew . 2005...
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Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity

Neni Panourgiá
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 395–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-031
Published: 01 May 2008
... the question of necropolitics as biopolitics by interrogating the processes and gestures through which the category of the leftist as a “dangerous person” becomes possible in the context of parliamentary democracy, and the different ways in which the production of such a category that is inhabited...
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Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

Amy Hinterberger, Natalie Porter
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 361–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841904
Published: 01 May 2015
... Press . Branswell Helen . 2007 . “ Poor Countries Insisting on Bird Flu Rules: They Want Fair Share of Vaccines .” Hamilton Spectator , February 12 . Braun Bruce . 2007 . “ Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life .” Cultural Geographies 14 , no. 2 : 6 – 28...
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Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order

Jean Comaroff
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 197–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-030
Published: 01 January 2007
... and environmental changes that sped the evolution and transmission of new viruses across and within species (Davis 2005: 55). In the process, it signaled emerging biopolitical insecurities: unrecognizable aliens capable of disrupting existing...
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Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life

Didier Fassin
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 499–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-007
Published: 01 September 2007
... life. They differ analytically from Foucauldian biopolitics, defined as “the regula- tion of population,” in that they relate not to the technologies of power and the way populations are governed but to the evaluation of human beings and the meaning...
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Sense Experiences: Religious Affairs and the Palpability of State Power

Denise Gill
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 393–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262891
Published: 01 September 2021
..., this article amplifies how state infrastructures attempted to enact and extend power over citizens through bodily senses. It considers how extreme political rupture and the biopolitical reordering of the state implicates hearing, seeing, smelling, and touching in singular ways. Such a rupture and its...
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Black Mass; or, a Billion Plagues and More

Travis Alexander
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9584708
Published: 01 May 2022
... University Press . Chee Alexander . 2020 . “ In This Pandemic, Personal Echoes of the AIDS Crisis .” New York Times , June 18 . www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/coronavirus-aids-epidemic-lessons.html . Chen Mel Y. 2012 . Animacies: Biopolitics, Queer Mattering, and Racial Affect...
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Editor’s Letter

Shamus Khan
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 351–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912049
Published: 01 September 2018
... the biopolitics of borders. Andersson is interested in how migration controls have helped facilitate profiteering from refugees and predation upon migrants. He shows how border surveillance incentivizes the detention of migrant bodies, particularly for profit. Finally, Rihan Yeh closes our first section...
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Books Received

Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 423–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-20-2-423
Published: 01 May 2008
... Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Catlaw, Thomas J. 2007. Fabricating the People: Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Curthoys, Ned, and Debjani Ganguly, eds. 2007. Edward Said, the Legacy...
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Books Received

Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 579–580.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2683675
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Ethno-baroque: Materiality, Aesthetics, and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia . New York: Berghahn Books. Cooper, Davina. 2013. Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Campbell, Timothy, and Adam Sitze, eds. 2013. Biopolitics: A Reader...
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Editor’s Letter

Shamus Khan
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644349
Published: 01 January 2017
..., with an eye to both the animalization of humans and the humanization of animals. Braverman offers a biopolitical idea, “zoometrics,” that allows us to chart the process of determining worth along the animal-human divide. As bookends, Tahir and Braverman do not provide us with a celebratory vision of our...
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Books Received

Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890513
Published: 01 January 2013
..., Mel Y. 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Cobb, Michael. 2012. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled. New York: New York University Press. Coffey, Mary K. 2012. How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals...
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