5. Posthumanism, Social Complexity and the Political: A Genealogy for Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on the Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Control of What? 1
6. 1. Notes from an Investigation of ‘Control Society’ 20
7. 2. Post-Mortem on Race and Control 34
8. 3. Periodising (with) Control 44
9. 4. Subjects of Sovereign Control and the Art of Critique in the Early Modern Period 63
10. 5. Posthumanism, Social Complexity and the Political: A Genealogy for Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics 82
11. 6. ‘That Path is for Your Steps Alone’: Popular Music, Neoliberalism and Biopolitics 101
12. 7. Cinema in the Age of Control 121
13. 8. Towards a ‘Minor’ Fascism: Panoptic Control and Resistant Multiplicity in TV’s Spooks 141
14. 9. Species States: Animal Control in Phil Klay’s ‘Redeployment’ 166
15. 10. Control and a Minor Literature 180
16. 11. Philosophy and Control 193
17. Index 211