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Zoe, Bios and the Language of Biopower

, 2010
My dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of populations.
Hansen, Sarah K.
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Biopower Program, activities overview [PDF]

, 2000
Biomass is a proven option for electricity generation. A diverse range of biopower producers includes electric utilities, independent power producers, and the pulp and paper industry.
Shepherd, P.
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Guantánamo Bodies: Law, Media, and Biopower

MediaTropes, 2011
The idea of the Guantánamo detainee as a <i>Muselmann</i>, the lowest order of concentration camp inmates, contains within it important implications for the new understanding of sovereignty in the era of Guantánamo, in an age of exception ...
Dave Holmes, Cary Federman
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Mediating Islamic State| Islamic State and Women: A Biopolitical Analysis

International Journal of Communication, 2020
Based on Islamic State (IS)’s own writings and images, this article seeks to understand the type of power wielded by IS. Focusing on IS’s views and treatment of women, we conduct a textual analysis of IS’s online English-language magazine Dabiq ...
Mohammed Salih, Marwan Kraidy
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As the Earth Falls into the Sun: Marx, Foucault and the Problem of Destruction

Genealogy+Critique
In the paper, we start from Marx's and Foucault's apocalyptic proclamations about destruction. Refusing the somewhat reasonable temptation to understand these statements as merely rhetorical devices (in Marx's case) or a theoretical dead-end of ...
Atila Lukić, Gordan Maslov
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Networked biopower: personalized healthcare in a datafied world

Information, Communication & Society
This study fucuses on data-driven personalization in healthcare (DDPH), an umbrella term for collection, storage, and analysis of big individual data with a view to providing patient-specific healthcare solutions, including customized treatments, and disease prevention.
Ashuri, T., van Voorst, R.
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Biopower Program Technology Overview

, 2001
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) works with industry and other partners through the Biopower Program to develop and validate renewable, biomass-based electrical generation ...

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Die Auslöschung des Subjekts Biomacht in Andri Snær Magnasons Roman LoveStar und Ninni Holmqvists Roman Die Entbehrlichen

NORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2016
This contribution investigates how biopolitics comes into effect within society. It focuses on two Scandinavian novels, namely LoveStar by Andri Snær Magnason and Die Entbehrlichen by Ninni Holmqvist. Both novels map fictitious societies, which are based
Dörte Linke
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Orientation and Legitimating Biopower

The book’s core theoretical chapter argues that the vernacular practices in vibes discourse and the mathematical models behind recommender algorithms and artificial intelligence both model what Sara Ahmed calls a phenomenological orientation, i.e., a ...

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Biopolítica colonial, gestión de la población y modernización borbónica en Santo Domingo. El proyecto de Pedro Catani (1788)

Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica, 2014
Este artículo analiza el “Informe del oidor Pedro Catani (1788)” sobre la economía de Santo Domingo, el mejoramiento de su agricultura y el dominio y gobierno de sectores de la población fuera del sistema de extracción colonial del trabajo.
Carlos Jáuregui, David M. Solodkow
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