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The unrequited love of power: biopolitical investment and the refusal of care

Foucault Studies, 2007
Despite its increasing prominence in critical political and IR theory, the significance of the Foucauldian problematic of biopolitics remains underestimated.
Sergei Prozorov
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Medical Ethics as an Approach to the Debate About Assisted Suicide by the Example of Germany. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT Recent literature has seen a growing endorsement of the so‐called autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying, which rejects suffering as a necessary criterion for access. Proponents argue that this model is most suitable to safeguard individuals against value‐based judgments of healthcare professionals about whether their lives are still worth ...
Gerber M.
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Middlesex and the Biopolitics of Modernist Architecture [PDF]

, 2018
Highlighting the architecture of the Middlesex house of Eugenides’ novel as a major technology of modernity, Seymour argues for the biopolitical understanding of such modernist architecture and for the ways in which it often works against the ...
Seymour, Nicole
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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A Santa with a Butt Plug:Paul McCarthy and the Obliterating Violence of Positivity [PDF]

, 2020
Kitsch is often seen as the denial of shit. Kitsch excludes from view everything that is unacceptable in human existence. In Paul McCarthy’s oeuvre, there is no such dichotomy.
Lushetich, Natasha
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery, Heather Law Pezzarossi   +1 more
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Biopolitics, population and control

Educación Física y Ciencia, 2010
Studies on the power turned some time ago to biopolitics, seen as the interference of power and the politics in life. It is positive and negative. Hence the discussion about the social control as an expression of modern biopolitics.
José Luis Tejeda González
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On Life, Bodies and Matter – (e Limits of Bio- politics. Introduction

Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2011
Qe primary aim of this paper is to analysethe limits of biopolitics (both in the strict, spatial-material sense and from the historical point of view).Qe discussion will focus only on the conditions ofgiving an answear to the title question and on ...
Mateusz Falkowski
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