January 29, 2011
TPS Berlin: An introduction to ‘bios’
The Public School Berlin is hosting a reading group to introduce the basic concepts of the debate on biopolitics and the thought of Roberto Esposito and Judith Revel [new time: 1 pm!].
Date and time: January 29, 2011 at 01:00pm [new time!].
Venue: Program Gallery [backyard], Invalidenstraße 115 – Berlin.
Sign in here! → berlin.thepublicschool.org/class/3074
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READINGS [ we are preparing a specific session on the last book by Preciado, more info soon ]:
- Roberto Esposito. Bíos. Biopolitica e filosofia (Milano: Einaudi, 2004). Trans. Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (University Of Minnesota Press, 2008). Chapters: Introduction, “The Enigma of Biopolitics“, ”Biopower and biopotentiality“. [pdf]
- Judith Revel. “Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions”. Theory Culture Society: Special issue on Foucault, Vol 26, n. 6 (2009). [pdf]
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FURTHER READINGS
- Judith Revel. Foucault, une pensée du discontinu (Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2010).
- 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]
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RECEPTION
- 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 (Dec. 2004). [pdf]
- Thomas Lemke. “Biopolitics and beyond. On the reception of a vital Foucauldian notion”. [pdf]
- Diacritics Vol. 36, n. 2 (Summer 2006). Special Issue: Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito. [toc]
- 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]