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• The postmodern and political agency 

  Pulkkinen, Tuija (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

• From Biopolitics to Biopoetics and Back Again : On a Counterintuitive Continuity in Foucault’s Thought 

  Prozorov, Sergei (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  The chapter addresses the relation between Michel Foucault’s studies of biopolitics and his work on the ancient techniques of the self in the 1980s. It argues that Foucault’s distinction between biopoetics and biopolitics ...

• Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker? 

  Lindholm, Samuel (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may ...

• 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 ...