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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., which targeted the detainee's purported entomophobia, was never actually carried out; however the memo's rationale for the technique reveals the ways in which logics of species, race, sexuality, and disability co-produce technologies of biopower and economies of affect within contemporary US imperial...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of this broadcast in order to pose the ques-
tion of performance’s relationship to biopower and biopolitical resistance in
the context of black music and dance in the late – Jim Crow United States.
Focusing on the Columbia Records LP of the suite, most Ellington...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 53–79.
Published: 01 June 2007
... and military practices were never as far
apart as they might on first glance appear. Born in the early nineteenth
century, as Foucault argued, the regulatory techniques for managing
biopower modeled themselves on an older conception of race war from
which they borrowed the dictum that “society...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 118–122.
Published: 01 September 2009
... is reshaped and transformed through human agency. A hallmark of Social Text 's theorization of the environment could be said to be critical inquiry into the modes through which biopower has shaped both society and the natural environment over the last several decades. Social Text contributors, for example...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 1–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of political inclusion and thereby exemplifies a new biopolitical paradigm that decisively breaks from the regime of modern biopower theorized by Michel Foucault. This claim forms the nucleus of highly charged debates across a range of disciplines about the political stakes invested in the recent...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., which can overlap with, work alongside, and sometimes even contradict the color line—an enmeshment that makes race in the mode of biopower (or is it biopower in the mode of racism?) work all the more thoroughly. “Like the color line,” Medovoi argues, “this second axis has a venerable history...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
...,
was significant for its early examination of the role and development of
the military sciences in the disciplining of individual bodies.1 The History
of Sexuality attempted a more ambitious theory of the relations between
war and biopower.2 Facing death, Foucault declared that “if God grants
me life...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to the disrupting force of plasticity. Yet notions of plasticity, we argue, emerge from within biopower. If the malleability of plastic bodies appears to antagonize state power from the subindividual scale, this special issue replies not that state power can leech from malleability for its own ends...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the individual body is once again center stage in procedures of power, which marks a shift from Michel Foucault's analysis of biopower from the nineteenth century on, whose target was the management of entire populations. 52 As Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose show, reentering the domain of biological truth...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 67–89.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and give form to the bodyscapes I will try
to describe.9
These bodyscapes must be understood as the point at which anatomo-
politics and biopower intersect, which is analyzed by Foucault throughout
his work and taken up again...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 23–49.
Published: 01 December 2019
... decolonization violence anaesthetics Teresa Margolles indexicality ethics documentary biopower new materialisms Perhaps the dead can be reduced to fixed forms, though their surviving records are against it. — Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature With no control over life...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2008
... sovereignty. I sug-
gest therefore that what is required is a diagnosis of this blind spot as a
way of grasping something of global sovereignty’s efficacious deployment
of biopower. In other words, the category of the IDP is not descriptive in
some simple sense, but is constitutive of an identity...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 101–115.
Published: 01 June 2004
.../Harney
beyond2 teaching when you give away the unexpected beautiful phrase—
unexpected, no one has asked, beautiful, it will never come back. Is being
the biopower of the Enlightenment truly better than this?
Perhaps the biopower of the Enlightenment know this, or perhaps it is
just reacting...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 89–107.
Published: 01 March 2020
... assessment in the history of health care to map how risk logics and the bio-logic of biopower have contentiously coincided around the technology of vaccines and the care they espouse to provide. Highlighting the manifold politics of Black female sexuality, medical imperialism, care, and protection...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 45–63.
Published: 01 December 2010
... affectively.
Security . . . the Accessory for Fall
For Foucault, biopolitics is one trajectory of a form of power that he
described as biopower, which, he argued, arose in eighteenth-century
Europe when “the old power...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2013
... philosophy of history allows us to
see the long-standing reliance of racial capitalism on biopower and on
postracial neoliberalism. When we read across Butler’s writings we see
that slavery is inextricably linked to contemporary cultures and politics
of reproduction even though slavery is not always...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 131–136.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: what is biopower when these conditions are not the tail ends of the statistical curve of normative life but the peak center? Third, all of these essays remind us that dwelling demands, or is at its heart, a political purpose, and this purpose is to interrupt a given formation of power rather than...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 81–102.
Published: 01 June 2007
... as a violent relationship — that actually existed or threatened
to exist — between States.5
Furthermore, Foucault elaborates on two overriding logics of biopower or
the modern forms of regulatory control of a population, those of “making
live” and “letting die.” With respect to the former, certain...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., identity, along with biopower, recedes
into territories that evade visual representation and whose mechanisms
are increasingly understood as atomized — thus the recent interest in affect
and temporality as modes for addressing new formations of identity, one...
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