Tag: Biopolitics

Free Download The Morals of Life: Biology, Biopolitics, Bioethics (Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought) by Davide Tarizzo
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549034 | 288 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
A theory of biopolitical power that updates Foucault, illustrating the moral implications of modern evolutionary theory.

Free Download Timothy C. Campbell, "Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben "
English | ISBN: 0816674655 | 2011 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 546 KB
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection? These questions drive Improper Life, Timothy C. Campbell’s dexterous inquiry-as-intervention.

Free Download Gavin Walker, "The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History "
English | ISBN: 1478004983 | 2019 | 298 pages | PDF | 16 MB
As technological innovation and cultural exchange challenge conventional borders, national identities, and notions of the nation-state, scholars have increasingly argued that the traditional concepts of "area" are ideological and political constructs tied to a schema of the world that no longer exists. This special issue of positions: asia critique posits that this "end of area" does not necessarily mean the end of area studies as a discipline. Rather, contributors suggest that "area" has detached itself from the realm of geopolitics and entered into the realm of biopolitics and biopower, which provides an opportunity to reevaluate and remap the goals of area studies. To address that change, this issue centers translation and the biopolitical as new theoretical mechanisms for area studies to order, combine, separate, and classify life. Topics include the concept of "area" itself; the philosophy of translation; reflections on Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Edward Said; governmentality and biopower in the time of global capital; and biopolitical management of geocultural areas.

Free Download Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009409956 | 265 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin’s writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency. Engaging with theoretical debates at the intersection of animal studies and psychoanalysis, and covering a wide range of science writing, poetry, and prose fiction, this study shows the political and psychic stakes of questions about species identity and management. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Gabriel Horowitz, "Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America "
English | ISBN: 1684484995 | 2023 | 176 pages | EPUB | 685 KB
In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation’s foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a "biopolitical state," in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.

Free Download Tourism and Biopolitics in Pandemic Times
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031463986 | 160 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This edited collection brings together interventions on the geographies of tourism in pandemic times approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the "management of bodies" has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new "states of exception" and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travelers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the "politics of life", now more than ever, ought to concern health and wellbeing for both individuals and selected populations, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. This book intends to show how a biopolitical analytical framework may provide a set of insights and critical perspectives that are key to the understanding of contemporary tourism practices and regimes of mobility, security, and in/exclusion – particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Free Download Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative by Michael Lewis
English | September 12, 2023 | ISBN: 1666923788 | True EPUB/PDF | 268 pages | 0.4/1.6 MB
Every aspect of the pandemic was said to be ‘total,’ absolute, and undiscriminating. Its very name implied as much. The virus was everywhere, and a threat to us all.

Free Download Samuel Lindholm, "Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era "
English | ISBN: 1032490284 | 2023 | 174 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 12 MB

Free Download Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, "Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education"
English | ISBN: 1032006927 | 2023 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB

Free Download Pınar Sarıgöl, "Gender and Biopolitics The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey "
English | ISBN: 9004337393 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Gender and Biopolitics: The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey, Pınar Sarıgöl takes a highly original approach to neoliberalism and Islamism, and develops new insights on the wider social and political repercussions of this shift on gender politics and the lives of women.