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For my stay at the Society for the Humanities in 2009-2010, I will be sketching both a genealogy of biopolitics, that is its various iterations in the thought of some of most important philosophers writing today (Agamben, Virno, Negri, Esposito, and Sloterdijk), as well as an implicit critique of the category of biopolitics in recent digital culture. On the one hand, I'll be attempting to mark what I see as a moment of crises in biopolitical reflections, given how increasingly difficult it has become to distinguish where biology ends and politics begins. On the other hand, I'll be interested in showing how digital culture not only takes the measure of biopolitics as it stands today at the height of its theoretical evolution, but also offers possible venues for thinking what might come after biopolitics. This opening to a post biopolitical perspective, an impersonal perspective on life, allows us to imagine a much more ecumenical notion of politics, one not limited to personhood, but open to all life forms.
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