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2021
Abstract Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three ...
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Abstract Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three ...
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Demographic aging and biopower
Journal of Aging Studies, 2019The aging of the world's population is an unprecedented recent phenomenon in human history, as for millennia - at least from the Neolithic to the mid-18th century - the age structures of human populations have changed little. The question posed by this anthropological perspective seems at first sight quite simple: how did this aging come to be? We will
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Journal of Chemical Education, 1983
The remarkable capacity of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain for generating metabolic power is compared to an electrical circuit. ; © 1983 American Chemical Society.
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The remarkable capacity of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain for generating metabolic power is compared to an electrical circuit. ; © 1983 American Chemical Society.
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Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2023
This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed.
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This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed.
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From biopower to necroeconomies: Neoliberalism, biopower and death economies
Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2018The deaths of millions from war, genocide, poverty and famine are symptomatic of a crisis that extends beyond site-specific failures of governance, culture or economies. Rather than reiterate standard critiques of capitalism, uneven development and inequality, this article probes and maps a shift in both the global economy and logic of capital that ...
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Philosophy Today, 2016
The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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Foucault on methadone: Beyond biopower
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009This essay reviews four texts which critically analyse methadone maintenance therapy using Foucault as a key theoretical framework: [Friedman, J., & Alicea, M. (2001). Surviving heroin: Interviews with women in methadone clinics. Florida: University Press of Florida], [Bourgois, P. (2000).
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2019
Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity has had to now contend with numerous changes, including our attitude environment protection, and also with depletion of classical energy resources. These have had consequences in the power production sector, which was already struggling with negative public opinion on nuclear energy, but a favorable ...
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Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity has had to now contend with numerous changes, including our attitude environment protection, and also with depletion of classical energy resources. These have had consequences in the power production sector, which was already struggling with negative public opinion on nuclear energy, but a favorable ...
David Chiaramonti, andrea maria rizzo
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Advances in Nursing Science, 2010
This article answers a call, recently published in Advances in Nursing Science, to more fully explore the use of Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's theory of biopower in nursing research and scholarship. Giorgio Agamben argues that biopower is not a modern phenomenon, and critical analysis of the historical origins of Western political ...
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This article answers a call, recently published in Advances in Nursing Science, to more fully explore the use of Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's theory of biopower in nursing research and scholarship. Giorgio Agamben argues that biopower is not a modern phenomenon, and critical analysis of the historical origins of Western political ...
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Biopower and the Liberationist Romance
Hastings Center Report, 2010Bioethics lives in the shadow of great structures and practices of power, and yet, it has not been notable for its contributions to an understanding of power. (1) Indeed, the narrative that bioethics has fashioned for itself has been mainly a liberationist romance: a quest narrative in which the individual, seeking autonomy, struggles against ...
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