Biopolitics Of The More Than Human

Author : Joseph Pugliese
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478009078

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Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human by Joseph Pugliese Pdf

In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains of biopolitics and law.

Author : Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317119432

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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics by Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe Pdf

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ’we’ humans think ’we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with more than human others .

Author : Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317119449

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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics by Kristin Asdal,Tone Druglitro,Steve Hinchliffe Pdf

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ’we’ humans think ’we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with more than human others .

Author : Alexander G. Weheliye
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376491

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Habeas Viscus by Alexander G. Weheliye Pdf

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.

Author : María Puig de la Bellacasa
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452953472

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Matters of Care by María Puig de la Bellacasa Pdf

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book’s two parts, “Knowledge Politics,” defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged “things.” The second part, “Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times,” considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as “resources.” From the ethics and politics of care to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies, Matters of Care is a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.

Author : Vanessa Lemm,Miguel Vatter
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823255993

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The Government of Life by Vanessa Lemm,Miguel Vatter Pdf

Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last courses at the College de France. Many of the chapters engage critically with the Italian theoretical reception of Foucault. At the same time, the originality of this collection consists in the variety of perspectives and traditions of reception brought to bear upon the problematic connections between biopolitics and governmentality established by Foucault’s last works.

Author : M. Foucault,Arnold I. Davidson,Graham Burchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230594180

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The Birth of Biopolitics by M. Foucault,Arnold I. Davidson,Graham Burchell Pdf

Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School.

Author : Jemima Repo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190256913

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The Biopolitics of Gender by Jemima Repo Pdf

This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explores how the problematisation of intersex infant genitalia in 1950s psychiatry propelled the emergence of the gender apparatus in order to socialise sexed individuals into the ideal productive and reproductive subjects of White, middle-class postwar America.

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452966564

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Art and Posthumanism by Cary Wolfe Pdf

A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down. Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks—from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others—examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe. One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments.

Author : Timothy C. Campbell,Adam Sitze
Publisher : A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biopolitics
ISBN : 0822353350

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Biopolitics by Timothy C. Campbell,Adam Sitze Pdf

A compilation of the primary texts--by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists--that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226922409

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Before the Law by Cary Wolfe Pdf

Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics. Wolfe argues that the human-animal distinction must be supplemented with the central distinction of biopolitics: the difference between those animals that are members of a community and those that are deemed killable but not murderable. From this understanding, we can begin to make sense of the fact that this distinction prevails within both the human and animal domains and address such difficult issues as why we afford some animals unprecedented levels of care and recognition while subjecting others to unparalleled forms of brutality and exploitation. Engaging with many major figures in biopolitical thought—from Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault to Agamben, Esposito, and Derrida—Wolfe explores how biopolitics can help us understand both the ethical and political dimensions of the current questions surrounding the rights of animals.

Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015002400631

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Biopolitics by Thomas C. Wiegele Pdf

Author : Irus Braverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317374046

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Animals, Biopolitics, Law by Irus Braverman Pdf

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animals, Biopolitics, Law envisions the possibility of lively legalities that move beyond the humanist perspective. Drawing on an array of expertise—from law, geography, and anthropology, through animal studies and posthumanism, to science and technology studies—this interdisciplinary collection asks what, in legal terms, it means to be human and nonhuman, what it means to govern and to be governed, and what are the ethical and political concerns that emerge in the project of governing not only human but also more-than-human life.

Author : Roberto Esposito
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823242641

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Terms of the Political:Community, Immunity, Biopolitics by Roberto Esposito Pdf

This title calls for the opening of political thought toward a re-signification of terms - such as 'community, ' 'immunity, ' 'biopolitics, ' and 'the impersonal' - in ways that affirm rather than negate life.

Author : Osagie K. Obasogie,Marcy Darnovsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520277823

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Beyond Bioethics by Osagie K. Obasogie,Marcy Darnovsky Pdf

"For several decades, the field of bioethics has played a dominant role in shaping the way society thinks about ethical problems related to developments in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphases on, for example, doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and individual autonomy have led the field to not be fully responsive to the challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic enhancement, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics provides a focused overview for students and others grappling with the profound social dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to a new perspective that is grounded in social justice and public interest values. The contributors to this volume seek to define an emerging field of scholarly, policy, and public concern: a new biopolitics."--Provided by publisher.