Theocratic Biopolitics: From Political Theology to Affirmative Biopolitics
A theocratic, as opposed to theo-political, life can be found embodied in contemporary forms of everyday resistance to both neoliberal and populist biopolitics.
Review – Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil
Sabrina Villenave details the history of policing through colonial mindsets in Brazil, but could do with more philosophical exploration of perceptions of the dead body.
State of Exception? When Theory Meets Its Walls: A Rejoinder
It seems exaggerated, if not theoretically blind, to claim that emergency measures adopted in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak are ‘irrational and entirely unfounded’.
Opinion – The Limits of Humanist Ethics in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene ethics evolve in a contestation between withdrawal and affirmation, and both of these logics develop in antagonisms that they cannot overcome.
Performing the Posthuman: An Essay in Three Acts
If last century was more about freeing the carbon than it was about freeing humanity from its chains, this century could be able to understand our posthuman condition.
Review – Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion
This book vividly shows how ‘things’ become agents within a New Materialism frame, making it a fine contribution of to the development of International Relations theory.
Understanding Resilience through the Rudiments of Biopolitics
Opposite conceptualizations of resilience as proper to new emerging ontological relations; biopolitics reminds us that resilience is enmeshed with power and control.
