biopower

Animals before the death of man: (techno)biopower and (de)domestication performances

Iván Darío Ávila Gaitán, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Críticos Animales – Ileca, Colombia

“To make live and to let die”: Foucault on Racism

Eduardo Mendieta eduardo.mendieta@stonybrook.edu SUNY, Stony Brook (USA) Abstract: This article considers Foucault’s Collège de France seminar from 1975-6, entitled Il faut défendre la société, or Society must be Defended. The article does not aim to summarize the course, but rather to discern a constellation of radical departures in Foucault’s thinking. We focus on the severe […]

Analysing power: Foucault and the decolonial theory

Montserrat Galceran Huguet galceran@filos.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid Abstract: This work intends to relate several aspects of decolonial theory brought forward by Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano, and the theses on the workings of power in contemporary societies, which were advanced by Michel Foucault. Specifically, the issue of hierarchy and heterarchy of power relations and the […]