Foucault in an age of terror : essays on biopolitics and the defence of society /

Foucault in an age of terror : essays on biopolitics and the defence of society / edited by Stephen Morton and Stephen Bygrave. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - ix, 234 p. ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life struggles : war, discipline and biopolitics in the thought of Michel Foucalt / Julian Reid -- Poetry must be defended : post-Waterloo responses to 'Power's ode to itself' / Simon Bainbridge -- Sovereignty, biopolitics and the use of literature : Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker / Alex Houen -- Michel Foucault : biopolitics and biology / John Marks -- Biopolitics, biological racism and eugenics / Clare Hanson -- Some reflections on Foucault's 'Society must be defended' and the idea of 'race' / David Macey -- War and peace, or governmentality as the ruin of democracy / Lucy Hartley -- Necropolitics / Achille Mbembe -- Torture, terrorism and colonial sovereignty / Stephen Morton -- 'Manual for a raid' and 'Henslowe's diary' : Foucault and the multiple meanings of the document / Rebecca Fensome -- Foucault, Auden and two New York Septembers / Stephen Bygrave.

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