New Materialisms: Foucault and the ‘Government of Things’

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3-25

  Lemke, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biopolitics; governmentality; Karen Barad; Michel Foucault; new materialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988044188     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276413519340     Document Type: Article

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