Table of Contents

Contents:

Foreword viii
Mika Ojakangas and Sergei Prozorov
Introduction 1
Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi

PART I GENEALOGIES
1 Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma of
sovereignty and biopolitics 12
Sara Dragišić
2 Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito and
the escape from the Hobbesian State 30
Vappu Helmisaari
3 Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates,
humours, and temperaments 49
Samuel Lindholm

PART II DIMENSIONS
4 Glenn Gould’s mastery of not-playing: style and manner in
the work of Giorgio Agamben 68
Katarina Sjöblom
5 Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben 86
Jürgen Portschy
6 Identities on the border 109
Ott Puumeister

PART III PRACTICES
7 Governing by prevention: neoliberal management of
sexual health in France 129
Théo Sabadel
8 Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia 151
Anastasya Manuilova
9 Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-American
constitutionalism: A linguistic encounter? 171
Gonzalo Bustamante-Kuschel
10 The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies and
current approaches 193
Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi

Index

About the Author

Edited by Marco Piasentier, University of Helsinki, Finland and Sara Raimondi, Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Politics and International Relations, New College of the Humanities at Northeastern, UK

Reviews

‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of thought in the humanities and social sciences. From debates over COVID-19 responses to the governance of climate change, biopolitical framings are at the heart of social and political contestation.’
*David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK*