Books

Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era.This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of […]

Foucault on Politics, Security and War interrogates Foucault’s controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault’s arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.

What is the legacy of Gilles Deleuze’s thought? Is it possible to separate his transcendental vitalism from the naturalist vitalism of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche? Through a dialogue with these authors and a discussion of biopolitics, the historical Avantgardes and contemporary art, the book describes the contest between a “wild” thought of life and […]

This volume examines cutting edge research in the study of biology and politics. Following an introduction from the editors it is divided into two main sections. The first part of the book explores the linkage between evolution, genetics and politics with initial chapters on abandoned baby legislation, a model of action and norms, and the […]

The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke […]

Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between […]

Intempestivamente, Nietzsche enseñaba que la pregunta filosófica más radical es aquella que ha volcado su pasión al oscuro ámbito de la vida. En este sentido, quizás sea posible decir que la escena filosófica contemporánea no sea otra cosa más que una continua experimentación que busca modos de tocar la vida, en tanto la deriva posthistórica […]

El volumen, que incluye textos de varios asociados de nuestra red, surge a partir de las ponencias presentadas en la conferencia internacional “Michel Foucault, biopolítica y neoliberalismo: las nuevas formas de gubernamentalidad”, que se realizó el 23 y 24 de septiembre del 2008 en la Universidad Diego Portales de Santiago. Dicha conferencia, organizada por el […]

You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,”Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of […]

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. Contributors highlight the differences as well as possible convergences with alternative theoretical frameworks. By assembling authors with a wide range of different disciplinary backgrounds, from philosophy, literature, […]

This book offers a powerful critique of mainstream ideas of global governance. Going beyond recent critiques of “human security” as a fundamentally incoherent concept, David Roberts offers practical political responses to the genuine problems facing the most threatened human populations worldwide. Focusing on water provision and sanitation, he takes a bottom-up approach to reduce avoidable […]

Insurance is the world “s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance. This work seeks to argue that […]

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of […]

How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today? This collection comprises several essays considering the contemporary relevance of the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault is best remembered for his historical inquiries into the origins of ‘disciplinary’ society in a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, it seems […]

In questo volume viene presentato un ricco ventaglio di analisi della crisi ecologica con l’intento di superare la tendenza a ridurne la percezione alla pur grave questione climatico-energetica e alla rassegnata presa d’atto delle difficoltà a risolverla. La strada scelta dagli autori è quella di restituire al problema ambientale tutta la sua densità politica, sociale ed […]

Las lecciones de 1978 y 1979 dictadas por Foucault en el Collège de France y publicadas luego bajo los títulos Seguridad, territorio, población y Nacimiento de la biopolítica, ocupan un lugar singular en el conjunto de la obra del filósofo. Podría decirse que estos cursos, agrupados con el nombre de Historia de la gubernamentalidad, representan una ruptura frente al trabajo que […]

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his […]

Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the biological or “green” continuum in which the “human” is but one life form among many? Exploring this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a […]

This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche’s corpus as a whole. Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche’s thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his […]

Este texto indaga diversas ideologías de control social en torno a las cuales se organizaron en Latinoamérica y Europa occidental, durante los siglos XIX y XX, variadas expresiones biopolíticas tendientes a normalizar al individuo y a la sociedad. En efecto, sabido es que desde las pretensas legitimaciones otorgadas por la teoría de la degeneración, el […]

This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy, serve as the thematic foci around […]

In April 2008, sociologists and related academics journeyed to Boston from across North America and Europe to attend the fifth annual Social Theory Forum, which was devoted to clarifying the central theoretical legacy of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-84) and applying his ideas to a range of contemporary empirical phenomena. The 24 papers look at […]

En La lógica del Cuidado Bernard Stiegler describió el cambio epocal del sistema de educación: Valores y saber ya no son transmitidos de una generación a otra, sino a través de los medios. Éstos,  no dan lugar a ciudadanos íntegros, sino a consumidores que pierden su capacidad de asumir responsabilidades. Al diagnóstico le sigue ahora su confrontación […]

Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years “immunity,” a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; […]

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his […]

This collection shows how Deleuze’s ideas have influenced current thinking in legal philosophy. In particular, it explores the relations between law and life, addressing topics that are contested and controversial — war, the right to life, genetic science, and security.

We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, […]

Toward a Global Thin Community reexamines aspects of the liberal-communitarian debate. Although critical of both traditions, this book argues that a coherent form of communitarianism is the only plausible option for citizens today. Using the theories of Frederich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, Olssen shows how we can overcome traditional problems with communitarianism by using an […]