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Scale as a Transaction Cost Variable in the U.S. Biopower Industry [PDF]
With increasing interest in renewable energy from agriculture, including biopower and cellulose ethanol, several aspects of the industry must be understood.
Altman, Ira J. +2 more
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The Depth Conditions of Possibility: The Data Episteme [PDF]
Book review of Colin Koopman's How We Became Our Data ...
Erkan, Ekin
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Bulbs and Biopower: Managing Produce and Price in the Age of Agri‐Logistics
Abstract This paper deploys the material and discursive politics of storage as a lens into agrarian change in rural India. Focusing on onions (Allium cepa), a price volatile crop and a kitchen staple, it maps out the contested meanings of and motivations for storage among growers, governments, and agri‐logistics companies. Specifically, this paper asks
Tanya Matthan
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Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns.
Cisney, Vernon W., Morar, Nicolae
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Abstract DeKalb County, Georgia has been mired in a struggle to defend its forest against the development of a militarised police training facility known as “Cop City”. Drawing on autoethnographic research as a criminalised forest defender and the Stop Cop City movement's social history, I show how forest defenders created abolitionist possibilities ...
Hannah Kass
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Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine
How does a state codify temporalities at the end of life? This article explores the ways in which French medico-administrative, institutional and legal dispositions are creating new timeframes for the end of life, new categories of patients and new ...
Ingrid Voléry, Lauréna Toupet
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PGP is a study of how we come into intimate contact with capitalism through our digestive tract. It is a study of the increasing valuing of protein in contemporary diet culture, focusing on how this phenomenon has resulted in mass-scale global soya ...
zegers, agustine
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Technologies of the Soul: Cultural artifacts of knowledge and power
Psychotherapy, defined from its etymology as “treatment of the soul”, is presented as a technological artifact –“technology of the soul”–, a product of knowledge about the internal experience of individuals, who emerge and take ...
Ramón José Ledesma Soto
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Population Disease Prevention Under Sovereign and Disciplinary Pandemic Authority [PDF]
The history of collective action aimed at disease prevention amongst populations is replete with complexity in the operation of political power which has transformed in its deployment over time.
Porter, Dorothy
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Frischeregime Biopolitik im Zeitalter der kryogenen Kultur
Feeding people means producing population. Biotechnology, encompassing food production as well as assisted reproductive technology (ART), currently emerges as a most important apparatus (dispositif) of governing populations. It should be understood as a
Alexander Friedrich, Stefan Höhne
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