From <i>Machenschaft</i> to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower

Sinnerbrink, Robert

doi:10.1163/156851605775009447

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“…Finally, Heidegger’s discussion of Gestell , anticipated already by his notion of ‘machination’ ( Machenschaft ) in the Contributions to philosophy (2000) and Nietzsche volumes, can be seen as a herald of Foucault’s and Agamben’s discussion of power and politics of/over life (e.g. Genel 2006; Hannah 2011; Sinnerbrink 2005). Even though such co‐reading would require a fundamental rethinking of Heidegger’s ambiguous relation to the question of life, of the relation between life and being in particular (see Pyyhtinen and Joronen forthcoming), at best it opens up new ways for thinking the ontological politics involved in the contemporary biopolitical techniques of producing and framing life inasmuch as it gives insight to the ontological logic behind the neoliberal governmentality of subjects.…”

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Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Joronen

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper scrutinises the possibilities Martin Heidegger’s notion of ‘the event of revealing’ (Ereignis) poses for spatial theory. It shows how Heidegger’s work on ‘the event’ and its ‘fourfold’ constitution (between earth, sky, mortals and divinities) affords a spatial understanding of ontology as a site revealed around the assemblage of things. Accordingly, spatial ontologies do not grow from the multiplicity of human constructions and social relations, but from the radical ontological finitude constitutive for the revealing of the material site of the thing. Through such post‐human understanding of the event, it becomes possible to think spatiality, not just in accordance with the influence Heidegger’s thought could have on the material understanding of spatiality, but in accordance with the rich understanding we could gain by exploring the politics of finite ontologies, the politics intrinsic for the different happenings of revealing.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: Geography Of the Finite Eventmentioning

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Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Joronen

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Homo Sacer is little by little gaining the status of a 'post-modern political classic' (Ojakangas, 2005). The increased interest in Agamben reflects increased engagement in biopolitics and biopower in general; concepts that have become increasingly prominent in contemporary political thought (Sinnerbrink, 2005). Agamben's actuality is therefore in tandem with the marked resurgence of interest in Foucault's work, not only due to the recent transcriptions and translations of Foucault's lectures (Foucault, 2003a(Foucault, , 2003b(Foucault, , 2006 but also the confluence of recent political events (war on terror, increased Islamophobia, vilification of asylum-seekers) to which a Foucaultian analysis is particularly germane (Golder, 2005).…”

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Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction

2006

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's conclusion that the camp has replaced the city as the biopolitical paradigm of the West is as difficult to digest as it is easy to see how it responds to contemporary political tendencies in the world today. In this introduction to this theme issue on Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp, a detailed exposition, emulating the structure of Agamben's seminal book Homo Sacer, is conducted, tracing the genealogies of Agamben's ideas and commenting on his swiftly enhanced importance in the social sciences and humanities. The introduction concludes by outlining some possible research fields in human geogrphy where much insight could be gained if Agamben's work is given more detailed consideration.

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“… 4. Agamben and Sinnerbrink argue, like Dean, that pleasure was largely overlooked by Foucault as a factor functional to biopolitics (Agamben, 1998: 187; Sinnerbrink, 2005: 249). Similarly, to our knowledge, the potential for examining instances of biopolitics which explicitly invoke pleasure and desire remains underdeveloped in the vast literature on biopolitics, medicine and health promotion. …”

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Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire

Karlsen

Villadsen

2016

Body & Society

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The relationship between pleasure and asceticism has been at the core of debates on western subjectivity at least since Nietzsche. Addressing this theme, this article explores the emergence of ‘non-authoritarian’ health campaigns, which do not propagate abstention from harmful substances but intend to foster a ‘well-balanced subject’ straddling pleasure and asceticism. The article seeks to develop the Foucauldian analytical framework by foregrounding a strategy of subjectivation that integrates desire, pleasure and enjoyment into health promotion. The point of departure is the overwhelming emphasis in the governmentality literature on ‘prudence’, ‘self-responsibility’ or ‘risk calculation’, such that pleasure and desire remain largely absent from the framework. Some insights from Žižek’s work are introduced to help us obtain a firmer grasp on the problematic of ‘the well-balanced subject’. The article argues that, in order to analyse the transformation of interpellation in recent health promotion, we must recognize the mechanism of self-distance or dis-identification as an integral part of the procedure of subjectification.

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From Machenschaft to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower

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Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction

Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire

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