Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
1 Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault......Page 25
2 Poetry Must Be Defended: Post-Waterloo Responses to ‘Power’s Ode to Itself’......Page 54
3 Sovereignty, Biopolitics and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker......Page 74
4 Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology......Page 99
5 Biopolitics, Biological Racism and Eugenics......Page 117
6 Some Reflections on Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Idea of ‘Race’......Page 129
7 War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy......Page 144
8 Necropolitics......Page 163
9 Torture, Terrorism and Colonial Sovereignty......Page 194
10 ‘Manual for a Raid’ and ‘Henslowe’s Diary’: Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document......Page 207
11 Foucault, Auden and Two New York Septembers......Page 226
D......Page 241
K......Page 242
P......Page 243
T......Page 244
Y......Page 245