Bibliography
This bibliography is work in progress: feedbacks are welcome.
Titles highlighted in red are suggested as starter readings.
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1. Biopolitics: the ‘normative’ lineage
BIOPOLITICS, BIOPOWER
Michel Foucault. La Volonté de savoir. Histoire de la sexualité: Vol I (Paris: Gallimard, 1976). Trans. The Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality: Vol I (London: Penguin, 1998). [pdf]
Michel Foucault. Sécurité, territoire, population. Cours du Collège de France. 1977-1978 (Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2004). Trans. Security, territory, population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). [pdf]
Michel Foucault. Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978–1979 (Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2004). Trans. The Birth of Biopolitics: Collège de France Course Lectures 1978–1979 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). [pdf]
NAKED LIFE, STATE OF EXCEPTION
Giorgio Agamben. Homo Sacer: Il potere sovrano e la vita nuda (Torino: Einaudi 1995). Trans. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford University Press, 1998). Chapter: “Potentiality and Law”. [pdf]
Giorgio Agamben. “Absolute Immanence”. In: Potentialities (Stanford University Press: 2000). [pdf]
Giorgio Agamben. L’aperto. L’uomo e l’animale (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2002). Trans. The Open: Man and Animal (Stanford University Press, 2004). [pdf]
Giorgio Agamben. Stato di eccezione. Homo sacer 2 (Torino: Bollati Borighieri, 2003). Trans. State of Exception (University Of Chicago Press, 2005). [pdf]
Theory & Event, Vol. 13, n. 1 (2010). Form-of-Life: Giorgio Agamben, Ontology and Politics. [pdf]
IM-MUNITY, COM-MUNITY, THIRD PERSON
Roberto Esposito. Immunitas. Protezione e negazione delle vita (Torino: Einaudi, 2002). Trans. in German: Immunitas: Schutz und Negation des Lebens (Berlin: Diaphanes, 2004).
Roberto Esposito. Bíos. Biopolitica e filosofia (Milano: Einaudi, 2004). Trans. Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (University Of Minnesota Press, 2008). Chapters: “The Enigma of Biopolitics“, ”Biopower and biopotentiality“. [pdf]
Roberto Esposito. Terza Persona. Politica della vita e filosfia dell’impersonale (Torino: Einaudi, 2007). Trans. in German: Biopolitik und Philosophie der Person (Berlin: Diaphanes, 2004).
Diacritics Vol. 36, n. 2 (Summer 2006). Special Issue: Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito. [toc]
Isabell Lorey. Figuren des Immunen: Elemente einer politischen Theorie (Berlin: Diaphanes, 2011). [web]
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2. Biopolitics: the tradition of post-operaismo
BIOPOLITICAL PRODUCTION, CONSTITUENT POWER, POTENTIA
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
Part 1.2 “Biopolitical production“. [pdf]
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009).
Part 1.3 “Biopolitics as Event“. [pdf]
Antonio Negri. “The Political Monster: Power and Naked Life”. In: Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri. In Praise of the Common (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). [pdf]
Judith Revel. Foucault, une pensée du discontinu (Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2010).
Judith Revel. “Identity, Nature, Life : Three Biopolitical Deconstructions”. Theory Culture Society: Special issue on Foucault, Vol 26, n. 6 (2009). [pdf]
Judith Revel. “The Materiality of the Immaterial. Against the return of idealisms and new vitalisms”. Paper presented at “Art and Immaterial Labour” symposium. Tate Modern, London. 19 January 2008. [pdf]
Maurizio Lazzarato. “From Biopower to Biopolitics,” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 13 (2002): 112–25. [pdf]
Maurizio Lazzarato. “From Capital-Labour to Capital-Life“. Ephemera Vol. 4, n. 3 (2004). [pdf]
Maurizio Lazzarato. Puissances de l’invention. La psychologie économique de Gabriel Tarde contre l’économie politique (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2002).
Maurizio Lazzarato. “Lazzarato: Enonciation et politique. Une lecture parallèle de la démocratie: Foucault et Rancière”. Chapter from forthcoming book. [web]
Paolo Virno. “Equivocal concept: bio-politics“. In: A Grammar of the Multitude. For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (New York: Semiotexte, 2004).
Brett Neilson. “Potenza Nuda? Sovereignty, Biopolitics, Capitalism”. Contretemps #5 (December 2004). [pdf]
Marianne Pieper (Hg.), Thomas Atzert (Hg.), Serhat Karakayali (Hg.), Vassilis Tsianos (Hg.). Empire und die biopolitische Wende: Die internationale Diskussion im Anschluss an Hardt und Negri(Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2007). [ebook]
La Rosa di Nessuno / La Rose de Personne, n. 5 (2010). La singolarità del generico. Biopolitica e comunismo/ La singularité du générique. Biopolitique et communisme (Milano: Mimesis, 2010).
BIOCAPITALISM, BIOECONOMY, AFFECTIVE LABOUR, FINANCIALIZATION OF LIFE
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2009). [pdf]
Christian Marazzi. The Violence of Financial Capitalism (Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2011, new edition). [pdf]
Christian Marazzi. “Amortissement du corps-machine” / “L’ammortamento del corpo-macchina”. Multitudes n. 27 (winter 2007) Bioeconomie, biopolitique et biorevenu: Questions ouvertes sur le revenu garanti. [web] [doc]
Christian Marazzi. ”Rules for the Incommensurable”. SubStance, Issue 112 (Volume 36, Number 1), 2007. [pdf]
Christian Marazzi. “The Violence of Financial Capitalism”. In: Andrea Fumagalli & Sandro Mezzadra (eds) Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios (New York: Semiotexte, 2010). [pdf]
Andrea Fumagalli. “Bioeconomics and the Valorisation Process”. In V. Cvijanović, A. Fumagalli, C. Vercellone (eds). Cognitive Capitalism and its Reflections in South-Eastern Europe (London, Peter Lang Publishing, 2010).
Carlo Vercellone. “The Crisis of the Law of Value and the Becoming-Rent of Profit”. In: Andrea Fumagalli & Sandro Mezzadra (eds) Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios (New York: Semiotexte, 2010).
Stefano Lucarelli. “Financialization as Biopower”. In: Andrea Fumagalli & Sandro Mezzadra (eds) Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios (New York: Semiotexte, 2010). [pdf]
Andrea Fumagalli. Bioeconomia e capitalismo cognitivo. Verso un nuovo paradigma di accumulazione (Roma: Carocci, 2007).
Vanni Codeluppi. Il bio-capitalismo. Lo sfruttamento integrale di corpi, cervelli ed emozioni (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,2008).
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3. The debate on ‘human nature’
Paolo Virno. “Il cosiddetto «male» e la critica dello Stato”, Forme di vita, n. 4 (Roma: Derive Approdi, 2005). Trans. [with substantial errors] “So-called «evil» and criticism of the state”. In: Paolo Virno. Multitude Between Innovation and Negation (Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2008).
Helmuth Plessner. Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch. Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie. (Berlin, 1928). [The Levels of the Organic and Man]
Helmuth Plessner. Macht und menschliche Natur. Ein Versuch zur Anthropologie der geschichtlichen Weltansicht. Fachschriften zur Politik und staatsbürgerlichen Erziehung, Nr. 3 (Ernst von Hippel, Berlin 1931). [Power and Human Nature]
Arnold Gehlen, “On Culture, Nature and Naturalness” and “Man and Institutions”. In: Jerry Z. Muller(ed.) Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought From David Hume to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, “Human Nature: Justice versus Power”, a debate aired by Dutch television in 1971. [text + video]
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4. Politics of the body, femminism and queer theory
Michel Foucault. “Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity”. In: P. Rabinow (ed.) Essential Works of Foucault: Ethics, Subjectivity, Truth , Vol. I (New York: New Press, 1997). [pdf]
Beatriz Preciado. Manifeste contra-sexuel (Paris: Balland, 2000). Trans. in Spanish: Manifiesto contra-sexual (Madrid: Opera prima, 2002). Trans. in German: Kontrasexuelles manifest (Berlin: Bbooks, 2003).
Beatriz Preciado. Testo Junkie: Sexe, drogue et biopolitique (Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle, 2008).
Beatriz Preciado. “Multitudes queer: Notes pour une politique des ‹‹anormaux››”. In: Multitudes 12: Féminismes, queer, multitudes (Spring 2003). [web]
Judith Revel. “Women: Absent from the Political?”. Paper presented at “Politics Difference Subjectivity”,workshop at Goldsmiths University, London. 4 June 2008. [pdf]
Judith Revel. “Devenir-femme de la politique”. In: Multitudes 12: Féminismes, queer, multitudes (Spring 2003). [web]
Donna Haraway. “The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse,” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, n. 1 (1989).
Leopoldina Fortunati. L’arcano della riproduzione. Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale. (Padova: Marsilio, 1981). Trans. The Arcane of Reproduction. Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital. Autonomedia, New York, 1995.
Angela Putino, Amiche mie isteriche. (Naples: Cronopio, 1998) – reviewed by Carla Locatelli in: “European Journal of Women’s Studies”, November 1, 1999.
Silvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation (New York, Autonomedia, 2004).
Tim Stüttgen (ed.) PostPornPolitics: Queer Feminist Perspectives on the Politics of Porn Performance and Sex Work as Cultural Production. Symposium reader (Berlin: Bbooks, 2009).
Cristina Morini. Per amore o per forza. Femminilizzazione del lavoro e biopolitiche del corpo. Preface by Judith Revel (Verona: Ombre corte, 2010).
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5. Biotechnologies, bioinformatics and digital culture
Paul Rabinow. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose. “Biopower Today,” BioSocieties 1 (2006): 195–217.
Nikolas Rose. The Politics of Life Itself. Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Jürgen Habermas. The Future of Human Nature (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003).
Melinda Cooper. Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism (Washington Univiversity Press, 2008).
Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
Eugene Thacker. Biomedia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2004).
Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
Jussi Parikka. “Politics of Swarms: Translations between Entomology and Biopolitics”. Parallax, 14:3 (2008).
Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip (eds). Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience (MIT Press, 2008). [toc]
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6. Philosophy of science, epistemology and ‘life’
Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle (London: Hogarth Press, 1920).
Erwin Schrödinger. What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell (Cambridge University Press, 1944). [pdf]
Georges Canguilhem. La connaissance de la vie (Paris: Vrin, 1952 and 1965). Trans. Knowledge of life (Fordham University Press, 2008).
François Jacob. The Logic of Life (1993), translated from the 1976 French edition by Princeton University Press.
Michel Foucault. “Bio-history and bio-politics” in: E. Mendieta and J. Paris, eds., Biopolitics and racism: Foucauldian genealogies (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007).
Judith Roof. The Poetics of DNA (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). [pdf]
Judith Roof. “From Protista to DNA: Freud’s Psychoanalysis of Single-Celled Organisms”. In: Cary Wolfe (ed.) Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2003). [pdf]