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Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts
Peg Rawes
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Description for Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 bw integrated. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
As the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault defined the concept, 'biopolitics' is the extension of state control over both the physical and political bodies of a population. Poetic Biopolitics is a positive attempt to explain and show how the often destructive effects and affects of biopolitical power structures can be deconstructed not only critically but poetically in the arts and humanities: in architecture, art, literature, modern languages, performance studies, film and philosophy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the contemporary global crisis of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing. Structured in three parts - biopolitical bodies and imaginaries, ... Read more
As the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault defined the concept, 'biopolitics' is the extension of state control over both the physical and political bodies of a population. Poetic Biopolitics is a positive attempt to explain and show how the often destructive effects and affects of biopolitical power structures can be deconstructed not only critically but poetically in the arts and humanities: in architecture, art, literature, modern languages, performance studies, film and philosophy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the contemporary global crisis of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing. Structured in three parts - biopolitical bodies and imaginaries, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780769127
SKU
V9781780769127
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99-50
About Peg Rawes
Peg Rawes is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the MA in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Reviews for Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts
'Despite the importance of space, distance and the emergence of relations in Foucault's original theory of biopolitics and in Agamben's later theory of the entire Western tradition as marked by biopolitical thresholds, there has been far too little sustained work on the poetic dimensions of biopolitics, with even less attention paid to the original sense of poiesis as a bringing ... Read more