Biopolitical Experience [electronic resource] : Foucault, Power and Positive Critique /
Blencowe, C.author.
An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience.
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Cover; Half-title; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Biopolitics and 'life' as modern experience; Positive critique; Biopolitics and the critique of modernity; (At least) two different modern rationalities; Experience; A note on Deleuze; Positive critique again; 1 Escaping the Laws of Being: The Character of the 'Bio' in Foucault's Genealogies of Biology and Biopolitics; Contesting the culture/biology dichotomy; A genealogical approach to life; Life in Foucault's oeuvre; Foucault's archaeology of modern biology; Natural history: establishing the reality of order
Biology: life escaping the laws of beingFoucault's genealogy of biopolitics: managing and maximising life; Biopolitics contra discipline; Conclusion; 2 Incorporation: Foucault on the Co-Constitution of Modern Embodiment, Experience and Politics; Trans-organic embodiment, vitalist values and the temporality of experience: an abstract overview; Foucault on sexuality and subjectification; Sexuality and the production of trans-organic embodiment: heredity, masturbation, population; Biopolitical embodiment: class and nation; Racism, death drives and the biological-type relationship; Conclusion
3 Christianity, Process and Positive Critique: Rethinking the Resonance between Foucault and Arendt, against AgambenAgamben on biopolitics; Problems with Agamben's account of Foucault; Agamben, Arendt and the destructiveness of modernity; Recovering the link between Arendt and Foucault; Process, Christianity and life in Arendt and Foucault; Normalisation, totality and individuality - the difference between Arendt and Foucault; Conclusion; 4 'Post-Population' or 'Cultural' Biopolitics? Rethinking Foucault's Concepts Today, against Nikolas Rose; Rose on post-population biopolitics
On the continued relevance of distinctions: biopolitics, anatomo-politics and the molecularOn the continued relevance of 'biopolitical racism'; Social constructivism, cultural biopolitics and racism after Auschwitz; Notes towards an alternative history of post-molecular biopolitics: economics, education and the embodiment of population life in post-war Britain; Conclusion; 5 Eternally Becoming: Feminism, Race, Contingency and the Critique of Biopolitics; Biology, corporeality, racism and contemporary feminism; 'No votes for women. no census!' - the biopolitics of 'early' feminism
Feminist eugenics and the positivity of biopoliticsThe ambiguous relationship between feminism and eugenics; Feminist anti-biologism; Racism and anti-biologism; Monique Wittig's anti-biologism and critique of 'early' feminists; Dichotomies of being and becoming; The missing matter of biopolitical racism; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Cultural studies.
Modern philosophy.
World politics.
Movement (Philosophy).
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Cultural Studies.
Modern Philosophy.
Political History.
Philosophical Traditions.