January 18, 2007
The Contemporary
What is the contemporary ? This issue is a central one for ARC. We are in the process of constructing a glossary that will include concepts such as this one.
Previous discussions can be found in Rabinow: French DNA, epilogue The Anthropological Contemporary, as well as in Anthropos Today, and the forthcoming Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary (Princeton 2007) and Rabinow, Rees, Marcus and Faubion, Designs for an anthropology of the contemporary (forthcoming).
Biopower and the Contemporary
Welcome to the new blog.
We look forward to making this an international space for debate, thinking, edification and even some fun.
There are a set of debates that we should all enter into.
(1) What is biopower? and what is its connection and distinctions from biopolitics?
On that score: the English translation of the course on “Security, territory, population” is announced for April 2007. Its appearance will signal a new level of interest and debate. Given the horrendous confusions surround the term, as well as that of governmentality, it would opportune to begin to weigh in now.
We will produce some links shortly.