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‘You can’t pick up a phone and talk to someone’: How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy

open access: yesOrganization, 2021
This paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the answer lies with ‘management by algorithm’.
Michael Walker, P. Fleming, M. Berti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Perspective resources of resistance of spring oats to loose smut

open access: yesКарантин і захист рослин, 2019
Goal. Search for the most valuable sources of spring oats, resistant to the defeat of loose smut. Methods. Field, finely divided. The area of the crop area is 2 m2, the repetition is three times.
L. Necheporenko, S. Vorozhko
doaj   +1 more source

A Biobattery Capsule for Ingestible Electronics in the Small Intestine: Biopower Production from Intestinal Fluids Activated Germination of Exoelectrogenic Bacterial Endospores

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, 2022
Functioning ingestible capsules offer tremendous promise for a plethora of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. However, the absence of realistic and practical power solutions has greatly hindered the development of ingestible electronics.
Maryam Rezaie, Z. Rafiee, Seokheun Choi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foucault, Biopower & International Relations: A New Conceptualization of Global Biopower [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The purpose of this paper is, first and foremost, to accurately describe how biopower enters IR. It does this because so far IR theorists have inaccurately deployed the concept.
Kendrick, Jamie Brian William   +1 more
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The World is One Great Hospital

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2010
This article attempts to locate the origin of Foucault’s work on biopolitics and biopower in his writings on medicine and medicalization.  Though the concept of biopower is most closely associated with Foucault’ genealogy of the dispositif of sexuality ...
David-Olivier Gougelet
doaj   +1 more source

Biopower in the age of the pandemic: the politics of COVID-19 in Denmark

open access: yesEuropean Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association, 2022
The exceptional forms of state power mobilized under COVID-19 have attracted scholarly attraction and created important insights on the pandemic politics.
P. Triantafillou
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biopower and Reproductive Biomedicine: a Conceptual Inspiration for Czech Sociology of Medicine

open access: yesSociologický Časopis, 2012
The article examines the concept of biopower as it relates to contemporary reproductive medicine. It puts forth analytical frames for understanding the ways in which the power and hegemony of modern Western medicine (biomedicine) are applied and ...
Lenka Slepičková   +2 more
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This dissertation is a contribution to the ethnography of contemporary indigenous reindeer pastoralism in Norway: specifically, to the study of the neglected fields of reindeer killing and slaughtering practice.

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Biopower and International Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Michel Foucault’s critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars.
Angélica Guerra-Barón
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Euthanasia: Promoter of Autonomy or Supporter of Biopower?

open access: yesConatus, 2022
The medical developments and their subsequent influence on the duration of human life have brought in the limelight various moral questions. The pathological conditions do not constitute anymore the decisive causes of death, whereas an ascending number ...
Lydia Tsiakiri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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