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Lorenzini, Daniele (2021) Biopolitics in the time of coronavirus. Critical Inquiry, 47 (Supplement 2). S40-S45. doi:10.1086/711432 ISSN 0093-1896.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/711432
Abstract
In a recent blog post, Joshua Clover rightly notices the swift emergence of a new panoply of “genres of the quarantine.”1 It should not come as a surprise that one of them centers on Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, asking whether or not it is still appropriate to describe the situation that we are currently experiencing. Neither should it come as a surprise that, in virtually all of the contributions that make use of the concept of biopolitics to address the current coronavirus pandemic, the same bunch of rather vague ideas are mentioned over and over again, while other—no doubt more interesting—Foucauldian insights tend to be ignored. In what follows, I discuss two of these insights, and I conclude with some methodological remarks on the issue of what it may mean to “respond” to the current “crisis.”
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Biopolitics, Biopolitics -- Philosophy, Sociobiology, Sociobiology -- Philosophy, Human behavior, Human behavior -- Philosophy | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Inquiry | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0093-1896 | ||||||
Official Date: | December 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 47 | ||||||
Number: | Supplement 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | S40-S45 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/711432 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Re-use Statement: | © 2021 by by The University of Chicago. Accepted for publication to Critical Inquiry on 06/01/2021 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 February 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 February 2022 |
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