Monthly Archives: May 2007

24 May

Preoccupied Biopoliticals 1

Is it possible to think a politics of health, that includes the child yet to be born, that is not biopolitical? Nancy in his note on biopolitics suggests that Foucault’s historical thesis on the birth of biopolitics from the 18th century requires: a more precise examination of what the biopolitical preoccupations were before the modern era [...]
20 May

The somatic J-L Nancy: biopolitics

ancy in his recently translated (into English) work, La création du monde ou la mondialisation, has a note on the term biopolitics. The note is reproduced in full below. This note in 3 pages, with its own set of notes, at first occasions a few points of clarity, a direction of further research and then [...]