Biopolitical Experience Foucault, Power and Positive Critique

An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horror

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Biopolitical Experience

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10.1057/9780230358898 - Biopolitical Experience, Claire Blencowe

9780230_303294_01_prex.indd ii

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Biopolitical Experience

Claire Blencowe University of Warwick, UK

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Foucault, Power and Positive Critique

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© Claire Blencowe 2012

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