“…At the same time, however, Fehér and Heller's interest in the biopolitical is both more specific and more immediately political than that of Foucault. While Foucault had taken up the concept of biopolitics within the context of his analysis of the rise of a unique political rationality in modernity, Heller and Fehér's work on the biopolitical can be understood as a continuation of their inquiry into the democratic potential of the new social movements that had proliferated in the West during the latter half of the 20th century (Féher & Heller, , , ). More specifically, their analysis sees biopolitics as a strain of contemporary political theory and praxis which, for reasons that will be discussed at greater length in what follows, threatens to take radical politics in a singularly dangerous direction.…”