Search results for "biopolitics"
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Introduction
2022
In the introduction to the volume, the editors explain the overarching aim of the volume and contextualize the main themes of its chapters. Even if the notions of biopolitics and biopower have played a crucial role in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences over the last decades, they have been used in various and at times diverging senses, which has also produced different narratives about the history of biopolitics. The main aim of the volume is to clarify whether and to what extent the concept of biopolitics is applicable to antiquity. To answer such questions, the chapters collected in the volume address three main topics, namely the possible presence of biopolitical discour…
Biopolitica di Alfredo Cospito
2023
In this article, the author analyses the case of anarchist Alfredo Cospito, in hunger strike for protesting against his carceral condition.
Idee i metody współczesnych krytycznych studiów nad prawem
2015
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?
2023
Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may be regarded as the first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading of Hobbes's political texts and by comparing them to some of the most influential theories on biopolitics proposed by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others. Hobbes is indeed the first great thinker to assert the supreme political importance of safeguarding life. Furthermore, this prominence of non-contemplative life is not limited to mere su…
Arqueología del futuro en el barrio El Raval de Barcelona: a propósito de tres inercias del urbanismo tecnocrático y sus efectos indeseables
2021
Este artículo es el resultado de nuestro esfuerzo analítico para comprender cómo se han pensado y practicado intervenciones urbanísticas, extremadamente drásticas, contra el barrio El Raval de Barcelona en períodos formalmente democráticos. Lo que consideramos original de nuestra propuesta analítica es la identificación de una suerte de doxa tecnocrática que habría impregnado el urbanismo –también el barcelonés- desde sus inicios, y que acabará caracterizando el aclamado tanto como discutido “Modelo Barcelona”. La metodología utilizada proviene de la antropología histórica y de la sociología urbana. Nuestro prisma teórico entrecruza perspectivas historiográficas como la biopolítica, socioló…
Kobiety a neoliberalna biopolityka. Przypadek polskich reality shows
2021
Celem artykułu jest pogłębiona analiza wizerunku kobiet w polskiej reality TV, przeprowadzona przy użyciu kategorii biopolityki Michela Foucaulta, uzupełnionej przez myśl Marksowską i marksistowską. Tekst składa się z trzech rozdziałów. Pierwszy dotyczy show Superniania, które pomogło zwrócić uwagę na kwestię biowładzy w sferze reprodukcji. Drugi rozdział omawia show randkowe, Hotel Paradise i Love Island. Wyspa Miłości, poruszając zagadnienia seksu i miłości. Ostatnia część skupia się na programie Damy i wieśniaczki, który pokazuje klasowy wymiar sprawowania biowładzy nad kobietami.
What is a child? Childhood’s images and narratives in Lucía Puenzo
2016
La producción de la escritora y cineasta Lucía Puenzo (Argentina, 1976) indaga insistentemente sobre el estatuto de la infancia a partir de personajes marcados por la anomalía o el exceso: desde la monstruosidad que asoma en los cuerpos de Alex (en XXY, 2007) y Lilith (Wakolda, 2013), la extraña naturaleza de la leyenda y el narrador de El niño pez (2009) hasta los chicos bordelines de La maldición de Jacinta Pichimahuida (2007). De un modo u otro, la “rareza” de estos niños no se acomoda a la distribución de especies, géneros, familias e identidades que establecen los dispositivos disciplinarios del poder en nuestra época y salta allí donde la vida no se contiene o no se define bajo el sig…
Paper bodies: Feminine Biopoetics in Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
2012
In the debate between biopolitical and bioaesthetic approach the case of the literary – and performing – work acted by an English woman writer and natural philosopher lived between 1623 and 1673, could result really meaningful. The work and the whole life of Margaret Cavendish represents an interesting example of the ways in which biopolitical control on both bodies and minds could started to work in that period, and in which ways a woman like Cavendish could resist to both epistemic and physical violence by fighting a battle on two grounds, by means of her own artistic creations and her body expressions. Her physical or material artistic products could represent a result of which evolution…
Anthropological reflections on breastfeeding between care and culture
2017
Breastfeeding is a practice so far unobtrusively studied by cultural and medical anthropology, an act placed between nature and culture, between private and social women spheres and which, like birth and pregnancy. It expresses hierarchies in roles and gender relations among biopolitical dynamics which denote the organization of society itself. As a cultural practice, breastfeeding differs itself on the basis of the social and ethnic belonging of the mother and the child, leading to ritual differences such as the law of the “kinship of milk” in muslim societies or the apothecary taboo of Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper reflects on how much this is occurring in Western society where breastfeed…
ESTUDIOS ANARQUISTAS
2021
Vaccaro reassess the political philosophy of anarchist thought through a series of critical analysis of some concepts and cultural categories that are newly criticezed by contemporary anarchism.