Cared to death: The biopoliticised time of your life

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 2, 2005, Pages 37-46

  Dillon, Michael ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i2.858     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. All working within a tradition - all passing on and down - is necessarily tainted by betrayal of the message. That is why for the early Christian Church traditio was a sin. See Michael Dillon, "Paradosis," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 20, No. 3, (1995): 229-240.
2. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1993).
3. See for example: Peter Beurton, et. al., The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution. Historical and Epistemological Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
4. Katherine Hayles, Katherine, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999);
5. Evelyn Fox-Keller, The Century of the Gene (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000).
6. Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living. Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997);
7. and Doyle, Wetwares. Experiments in Postvital Living (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
8. Lily E. Kay, The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of the New Biology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993);
9. and Kay, Who Wrote the Book of Life. A History of the Genetic Code (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000);
10. Eugene Thacker, Biomedia (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2004).
11. Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, "Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security and War," Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2001): 41-66.
12. Catherine Mills, "Agamben's Messianic Politics: Biopolitics, Abandonment and Happy Life," Contretemps, Vol. 5 (December, 2004): 42-62.
13. Michael Dillon, "A Passion for the (Im)possible: Jacques Rancière, Equality Pedagogy and the Messianic," European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2005).
14. Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (New York: Picador, 2003), 241.
15. Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 241.
16. Michel Foucault, Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978-79 (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2004).
17. Michel Foucault, Sécurité, territoire, population. Cours au Collège de France, 1977-78 (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2004);
18. Foucault, Naissance de la biopolitique.
19. Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds., Remaking Life and Death, Towards an Anthropology of the Life Sciences, Santa Fé: School of American Research Press, 2003.
20. Wendy Larner and William Walters, eds., Global Governmentality. Governing International Spaces (New York: Routledge, 2004);
21. Dillon, and Reid, "Global Liberal Governance."
22. Michael Dillon, "Virtual Security: A New Science of (Dis)order," Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 32, no. 3 May, (2004).
23. For a stimulating reflection on time and death in the entanglement of biopower and historiography, see Paolo Palladino, "Caveat Emptor: On Time, Death and History in Late Modernity," Rethinking History, vol. 8, no. 3 (2004): 402-416.
24. Agamben, Potentialities. Collected Essays in Philosophy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999;
25. Agamben, Means Without Ends: Notes on Politics (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2000)
26. Mills, "Agamben's Messianic Politics."
27. James Mittra, and Sir John Sulston, "Genetics and Life Assurance. Should We legislate?" News Letter of the ESRC Genomics Network, ESRC: Swindon:, 2004.
28. Agamben, Potentialities
29. Agamben, Means Without Ends.
30. Moreira and Palladino site a related discussion of Foucault and Agamben in the context of a detailed account of contemporary bio-medical change. See, Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino, "Between Truth and Hope: On Parkinson's Disease, Neurotransplantation and the Production of the Self," History of the Human Sciences, forthcoming 2005.
31. Adam Thurschwell, "Specters of Nietzsche: Potential Futures for the Concept of the Political in Agamben and Derrida," Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 24, 2003;
32. and Thurschwell, "Cutting the Branches for Akiba: Agamben's Critique of Derrida," in Andrew Norris, ed., Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2005).
33. Mitchell Dean, 'Liberal government and authoritarianism', Economy and Society, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2002): 37-61;.
34. and Dean, 'Powers of life and death beyond governmentality," Journal of Cultural Research, Vol. 6 Nos. 1-2, (2002).
35. Mark Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars. The Merging of Development and Security, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001;
36. James Der Derian, Virtuous War. Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media- Entertainment Network (Oxford: Perseus, 2001).
37. Although they don't quite put it like this, see again the detailed argument presented in Moreira and Palladino, "Between Truth and Hope."
38. Giorgio Agamben, The Time That Remains. A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005);
39. Alain Badiou, Saint Paul. The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003);
40. Walter Benjamin, "Critique of Violence," in, Walter Benjamin Selected Writings Volume 1. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996): 236-253;
41. Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Saint Paul, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004);
42. and Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death (Chicago: Chicago University Pres, 1995);
43. Derrida, "Force of Law," in Drucilla Cornell, ed. Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (New York: Routledge, 1993);
44. and Gil Anidjar, ed. Jacques Derrida. Acts of Religion (New York: Routledge, 2002).