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Life As Surplus
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Author : Melinda E. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Life As Surplus written by Melinda E. Cooper and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Science categories.
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.
Biopolitics
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Author : Thomas Lemke
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-02-07
Biopolitics written by Thomas Lemke and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-07 with Social Science categories.
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 offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of populations and the need to “govern” individuals and collectives lead to practices of correction, exclusion, normalization, and disciplining. In this lucidly written book, Lemke outlines the stakes and the debates surrounding biopolitics, providing a systematic overview of the history of the notion and making clear its relevance for sociological and contemporary theoretical debates.
Disappearances And Police Killings In Contemporary Brazil
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Author : Sabrina Villenave
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-24
Disappearances And Police Killings In Contemporary Brazil written by Sabrina Villenave and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-24 with Political Science categories.
The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects. Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset – one that has persisted throughout Brazil’s experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the "war on drugs" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography.
Biokapital
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Author : Josef Barla
language : de
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Release Date : 2022-06-22
Biokapital written by Josef Barla and has been published by Campus Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-22 with Social Science categories.
Durch die Nutzung von Gen- und Reproduktionstechnologien und den systematischen Einsatz biowissenschaftlichen Wissens sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten neue Formen menschlicher und nicht-menschlicher Arbeit entstanden. Gleichzeitig wird Natur zunehmend als Dienstleisterin oder »Kapital« begriffen. Diese Verbindung biologischer Prozesse und kapitalistischer Inwertsetzung wirft zahlreiche drängende gesellschaftliche, politische und ethische Fragen auf. »Biokapital« versammelt erstmals zentrale Beiträge zu diesem Themenkomplex in deutscher Sprache, stellt die wichtigsten Positionen und Problemfelder vor und liefert einen breiten Überblick über die internationale Debatte zum Verhältnis von Leben und Ökonomie sowie Biopolitik und Kapitalismus.
Migrant Futures
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Author : Aimee Bahng
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Migrant Futures written by Aimee Bahng and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Social Science categories.
In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of speculative novels, comics, films, and narratives Bahng examines imagines alternative futures that envision the multiple possibilities that exist beyond capital’s reach. Whether presenting new spatial futures of the US-Mexico borderlands or inventing forms of kinship in Singapore in order to survive in an economy designed for the few, the varied texts Bahng analyzes illuminate how the futurity of speculative finance is experienced by those who find themselves mired in it. At the same time these displaced, undocumented, unbanked, and disavowed characters imagine alternative visions of the future that offer ways to bring forth new political economies, social structures, and subjectivities that exceed the framework of capitalism.
Experimental Life
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Author : Robert Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Experimental Life written by Robert Mitchell and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life. Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art. Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.
Plastic Sovereignties
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Author : Arne De Boever
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-19
Plastic Sovereignties written by Arne De Boever and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Does sovereignty have a future in the 21st century?Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.