With these basic features in mind, the next step is to elaborate in more detail the scope, structure, and aims
of biopolitics.
Throughout the preceding chapters I have suggested the basic outlines of a future - oriented perspective which takes the form of
Christian biopolitics.
This also recalls Hansen's previous series of interdisciplinary events This Is Not A Symptom (2014 — 2015)
on biopolitics, disability theory and Anti-Psychiatry as the critique of mainstream psychiatric treatment.
Biopolitics seeks not only a coherent theoretical scheme — whether in reference to being or to value.
In short,
biopolitics leads in one direction to a consideration of life in relationship to its ultimate ground — God the Creator.
Finally,
while biopolitics is set within a goal - oriented framework which stresses the importance of utopian dreaming as a catalyst of social change, it must not lose sight of the power of evil in human life and history.
Put in systematic structural terms,
biopolitics takes into account the totality of (1) natural systems, (2) social systems, and (3) technological systems.
On the methodological level she uses such perspectives
as biopolitics, bioethics and coroporeal feminism.
Ultimately it deals with the relation between individual freedom and collective responsibility,
with biopolitics and criticizes (hetero --RRB- normative concepts.
It was there that Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor in Language and Literacy Education and Director, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, was able to obtain research ethics clearance to post video from interviews with research subjects in her national CIHR study «Cancer's Margins and the Choreography of Knowledge: Toward a
Queer Biopolitics and the Mobilization of Public Health Knowledge.»
THE THEOLOGY WHICH CAN BEST SERVE THE CHURCH IN ITS MINISTRY TO THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE WILL TAKE THE FORM OF
CHRISTIAN BIOPOLITICS — A UTOPIAN APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE QUEST FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE, WHICH TAKES AS ITS CENTRAL THEME THE FULFILLMENT OF LIFE WITHIN THE TOTALITY OF THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
Journal article, «Exhaustive Images: surveillance, sovereignty and subjectivity in Google Street View,» commissioned as part of the series «Photography in the Age
of Biopolitics: Apparatus, Capture, Trace,» Fillip, 15 (Fall 2011)
Biopolitics seeks, minimally, to bring about those elementary conditions which must be met if life — human, animal, and plant — is to survive at all and, maximally, to make possible the optimum enjoyment of existence.
There follows a philosophical and theological chapter in which I outline a framework of thought and action that I call Christian
biopolitics.
I call this perspective Christian
biopolitics.
A final identifying mark of
biopolitics is that it employs a method of creative synthesis.
Christian
biopolitics, then, attempts to provide a framework for thinking and acting, a way of looking at problems and of working toward solutions.
The central theme of
biopolitics is life and its fulfillment.
Another feature of
biopolitics is that it overlaps religion and ethics.
With respect to each of these spheres,
biopolitics is concerned with (1) goals, (2) analysis, and (3) strategy.
Hence in order to stress this wider environment of human decision and action, I wish to make a case for the development of a theology which, by design, is concerned with the theory and practice of Christian
biopolitics.
After presenting an earlier version of what appears here as the chapter on Christian
biopolitics to a group of United Methodist denominational officials, one person suggested that my concern was «white and suburban.»
A further characteristic of
biopolitics is that it is both a theoretical and a practical enterprise.
With this brief outline of the structure of a biopolitical theology in the background, (My first published statement on
biopolitics appeared in The Christian Century [November 19, 1969], pp. 1481 - 83, under the title, «The Case for Christian Biopolitics.»)
Biopolitics, on its theoretical side, intends to correct this by viewing man in a comprehensive cosmo - historical, biocultural setting.
The aim of
biopolitics is precisely that of elaborating such a vision of the ideal and to devise ways of attaining it.
See Science, Secularization and God, pp. 94 - 109, 226 - 229; Christian
Biopolitics (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1971), pp. 108 - 113.
It appears in the book Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and
Biopolitics in the New Millennium.
Her films fuse formal experimentation with myth,
biopolitics and the semiotics of cinema, to visualize and ruminate upon posthuman ontology.
Here, too, she boasts of a «
biopolitics of the senses,» and here, too, it comes across as sentimental and pretentious.
Her dissertation considers the intersection of performance art,
biopolitics, and technologies of surveillance in the 1960s and 1970s in the US and abroad through artists» deployment of guerrilla tactics.
The Hugo Boss Prize winner uses these unconventional materials (and organisms) to examine «
a biopolitics of the senses,» setting up an environment that tests how our assumptions about race, gender, and class shape how we physically perceive the environments that surround us.
Through her poetic treatment of film Mayer interweaves myth,
biopolitics and the semiotics of cinema to visualize and ruminate upon future posthuman ontology.
The group will perform Young Girl Reading Group's manifesto interspersed with paragraphs from Paul B. Preciado's third part of their «Gender, Sexuality» and the «
Biopolitics of Architecture: From the Secret Museum to Playboy».
The group explored assimilation and transgression, convention and critique,
biopolitics and style.
Sample reading list: Rike Frank, When Forms Start Talking: On Lecture Performance Boris Groys, Art in the Age of
Biopolitics: Artwork to Art Documentation Walter Benjamin, The Story Teller Alan Sekula, The Body and the Archive Akram Zataari, Photographic Documents, Excavation as Art Hal Foster, The Archival Impulse
Implementing cultural techniques that operate between art and anthropology, retail and the fitness industry, Corrall's practice poses questions around consumer culture, object ontologies and
biopolitics.
These works, which also include those of Ryan Trecartin, Jennifer Chan, Metahaven and more, are collated, curated and recalibrated into the Private Settings website, where images and information are dispersed across artists pages, then themes: «Body in the Web», «Affect and Presence», «Corporate Aesthetics», «Surveillance and
Biopolitics» and «Copies in Motion».
LEONARDO features Heather Dewey - Hagborg's «Postgenomic Identity: Art and
Biopolitics» as Topt - rated LABS Abstracts 2016
Known for her frequent collaboration with scientists and perfumers in the development of her work, Yi employs unconventional materials — that often were, or are, alive — to examine what she refers to as «
a biopolitics of the senses».