This article proposes a way of problematising the concept of biopolitics based on foucauldian and post-foucauldian reflection in order to steer the question towards the meaning of biopolitics, we take as our starting point ...

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucault’s biopolitics in order to understand how life is being turned into a technological object. ...

The contemporary impels us to resolve those issues still widespread in the fields of theoretical and applied ethics, not only from the philosophical disciplines, but the domains of knowledge made by science and the technical ...

Among several analyzed issues by Foucault, bio-power was the one with a greater publicity and into this context appears also bio-politics that has been studied by many authors after Foucault such as Negri. The term ...

The disabled has been the subject of exclusion in the school environment. Historically, the arguments used for this would be that escape to disciplinary purposes and school, to be classified as abnormal, should be aimed ...

Genetic resources are strategic elements for the control and organization of the capitalist agriculture's production chain. In Brazil, this process is not devoid of conflicts, as rural social movements resist the manipulation ...

The sub-title for this issue, “Blending Flesh with Beloved Clay”, comes from Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Allfrey’s poem, “Love for An Island”. The poem speaks to the essays, creative works and reflections ...