C. Blencowe 
Biopolitical Experience 
Foucault, Power and Positive Critique

An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience.

Table of Content

Introduction Escaping the Laws of Being: The Character of the ‘Bio’ in Foucault’s Genealogies of Biology and Biopolitics Incorporation: Foucault on the Co-Constitution of Modern Embodiment, Experience and Politics Christianity, Process and Positive Critique: Rethinking the Resonance Between Foucault and Arendt, Against Agamben ‘Post-Population’ or ‘Cultural’ Biopolitics’? Rethinking Foucault’s Concepts Today, Against Nikolas Rose Eternally Becoming: Feminism, Race, Contingency and the Critique of Biopolitics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

CLAIRE BLENCOWE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She has previously lectured in social, cultural and political theory at Newcastle and at Bristol.