Winter Term 2013 readings to be posted here (as we finalize a schedule).
All meetings 6p Thursdays in PLC 314
Week 1 (only!) we will meet Thursday at 12p in TBD for a special session with Ladelle McWhorter.
Wk 2 ... Agamben, Homo Sacer, pp. 1-12, 119-125
Wk 3 ... Esposito, "Totalitarianism or Biopolitics?..." from Critical Inquiry
Wk 4 ... Hacking, "Biopower and the Avalanche of Numbers"
Wk 5 ... Galloway & Thacker, selections from The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
Wk 6 ... Oksala, "Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity"
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Wk 7 ... Davidson, chapter 1 from The Emergence of Sexuality
Wk 8 ... Hacking, "How 'Natural' are 'Kinds' of Sexual Orientation?"
Wk 9 ... Haraway, "The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies"
Wk 10 ... Repo, "'Herculine Barbin' and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler's Gender Genealogy"
Wk 11 ... Nealon, "The Archaeology of Biopower"
Reply to this thread with suggested readings for subsequent weeks.
A few suggested readings so far:
ReplyDeleteIan Hacking, "Biopower and the Avalanche of Numbers" (more?)
Arnold Davidson, Chapter 1 of 'The Emergence of Sexuality'
Jemima Repo, forthcoming article in Feminist Theory
Others... ?
Repo article title: "Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler’s Gender Genealogy"
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ReplyDeleteMore Hacking? Maybe a chapter from The Taming of Chance... or from the volume - The Foucault Effect - How should we do the history of statistics?
Along similar lines - maybe - Rabinow, "Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality"
Or, Jeff Nealon, "The Archaeology of Biopower: From Plants to Animals in The Order of Things"
Or Melinda Cooper, some chapter from Life as Surplus.
Esposito, "Totalitarianism and Biopolitics? Concerning a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century" (published already in Critical Inquiry)
I just got two other books - in case some of you are interested in (chapters to read):
DeleteEd Cohen, A Body Worth Defending (Duke UP)
Clough & Wilse (ed), Beyond Biopolitics (Duke UP)
TOCs available on Amazon or on Duke UP's website.
The 'Beyond Bioplitics' volume looks really good. The piece by Amit Rai is of especial interest to me, fyi.
DeleteJohanna Oksala, "Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity" and perhaps an excerpt from Arendt on the rise of the social
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