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• The postmodern and political agency 

  Pulkkinen, Tuija (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

• Bene vivere politice : On the (Meta)biopolitics of “Happiness” 

  Backman, Jussi (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  This chapter approaches the question of biopolitics in ancient political thought looking not at specific political techniques but at notions of the final aim of the political community. It argues that the “happiness” ...

• Foucault and the birth of psychopolitics : Towards a genealogy of crisis governance 

  Prozorov, Sergei (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  The article contributes to the genealogy of current tendencies in crisis governance by reconstructing Michel Foucault’s analysis of the application of the notion of crisis in 19th-century psychiatry. This analysis complements ...

• Introduction 

  Backman, Jussi; Cimino, Antonio (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  In the introduction to the volume, the editors explain the overarching aim of the volume and contextualize the main themes of its chapters. Even if the notions of biopolitics and biopower have played a crucial role in ...

• When did biopolitics begin? : Actuality and potentiality in historical events 

  Prozorov, Sergei (SAGE Publications, 2022)

  The article addresses the ongoing debate about the origins of biopolitics. While Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics approached it as a modern rationality of government, Agamben’s Homo Sacer series presented biopolitics as ...