Introduction

Rentea, Simona

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“…Already before he started working on biopower and biopolitics, Foucault had shown that 'life' was not a biological fact but a relatively young category that emerged at the particular historic moment that marked the shift between the classical and the modern episteme around 1800 (Rentea 2017). Before that, 'life' did not exist, only living beings (Foucault 1994b, 127f.).…”

Section: Biopolitics and The Threshold Of Modernitymentioning

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Biopolitics and Historic Justice

Braun¹

2021

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Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of homosexual men and of »asocials« under Nazi rule. She argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice.

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Section: Biopolitics and The Threshold Of Modernitymentioning

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Biopolitics and Historic Justice

Braun¹

2021

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“…According to Mills (2018), ‘biopolitics has become indispensable as a theoretical point of reference across the humanities and social sciences’ (1). Simona Rentea (2017) agrees that ‘the concept of biopolitics has had a remarkable reception in social science and the humanities in recent times’ (1). Wilmer and Žukauskaitė (2016) claim that ‘the notion of biopolitics recently became one of the main concepts in contemporary philosophy and cultural studies’ (1).…”

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“…Lemke (2007Lemke ( /2011) state that 'while many important political issues and theoretical questions have been addressed by employing the notion of biopolitics, it is often used in conflicting or even contradictory ways' (x). Rentea (2017) argues that 'we continue to witness a lack of comprehensive overviews able to bring together these frequently disparate engagements' (1). This is partly because 'surprisingly little work has been done to develop Foucault's own sketchy suggestions into a set of operational tools for critical inquiry', note Rabinow and Rose (2016).…”

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Reflexive Biopolitics and the Structure of Experimental Knowledge

Patkauskas¹

2021

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Over the last 20 years, biopolitics has become an established research field within the humanities and the social sciences. However, scholars agree that the academic status of biopolitics remains problematic due to the latter’s conceptual fuzziness, unmanageable scope and weak foundations. To address these issues, biopolitics theorists have engaged in reflexive efforts to convert biopolitics into a respectable discipline with a clear definition, research agenda and canon. In this article, I examine the reflexive biopolitics scholarship that has emerged in the last decade and conclude that while biopolitics may not satisfy the criteria for achieving disciplinary respectability due to the chief aporia that both underpins and undermines the academic biopolitics project – namely, its seemingly infinite reach – the structure of biopolitics matches that of experimental knowledge, also known as counterscience, the university without condition and nomad science.

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