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Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics -- situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience: offering explanations as to the enormous appeal of biopolitical discourse; and cultivating an affirmative, ethical and productive response to the technologies of biopolitical racism and securitization. Such a response is not about life escaping power or a retreat from life, but rather involves critical work on the conditions of production of population life (becoming collective). In addition to a detailed account of Foucault's writings on biopolitics, biology and experience the book offers a critique of some key contemporary interpretations of Foucault and develops the positive-critique of biopolitical experience by exploring the place of biopolitics, racism and contingency in feminist politics.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Biopolitical Experience
• Subtitle: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique
• Author: Claire Blencowe
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9780230303294
• ISBN: 0230303293
• ID: 04553854
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 143 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2011

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