Full Description
As the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault defined the concept, 'biopolitics' is the extension of state control over both the physical and political bodies of a population. Poetic Biopolitics is a positive attempt to explain and show how the often destructive effects and affects of biopolitical power structures can be deconstructed not only critically but poetically in the arts and humanities: in architecture, art, literature, modern languages, performance studies, film and philosophy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the contemporary global crisis of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing. Structured in three parts - biopolitical bodies and imaginaries, voices and bodies, and social and environmental turbulence - this innovative book meshes performative and visual poetics with critical theory and feminist philosophy. It examines the complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word.
Contents
Introduction PEG RAWES, STEPHEN LOO AND TIMOTHY MATHEWS 1 PART I The biopolitical body and the imaginary 1 Biopolitical ecological poetics PEG RAWES 11 2 Biopolitics, bioethics and the capitalisation of female bodies MARY C. RAWLINSON 24 3 How close do you want to be? Kate Craig's Delicate Issue CADENCE KINSEY 46 4 Other loving in Helene Cixous's 'The Love of the Wolf' JUDITH STILL 63 5 Mistress O & the Bees: Biopolitics and the performance of a makeshift poetics STEPHEN LOO AND UNDINE SELLBACH 81 PART II Poetic transitions: Voices and bodies 6 Towards a loving embrace TIMOTHY MATHEWS 107 7 Lina and Pina ANA ARAUJO 118 8 Approaching interspecies space through Association for Imaginary Architecture JOANNE BRISTOL 134 9 utter matter condensed JULIEANNA PRESTON 148 10 Songs of the Aveyron and the Ariege: After The Song of Songs SHARON MORRIS 170 11 A postscript from Bartlebess: How to perform creative resistance in the workplace HELENE FRICHOT 193 PART III Whirlwinds: Social and environmental performativity 12 Facts are no more solid, coherent, round and real than pearls are SANDRA SCHAFER 209 13 Mapping turbulent gestures and liquid ground DORITA HANNAH AND CAROL BROWN 221 14 Theatre-of-Self, Nested Selves and Three Point Nomad ELAINE ANGELOPOULOS 245 15 A methodology of locks ELLA FINER, EMILY ORLEY AND P. A. SKANTZE 255 16 Cafe Carbon THE GLUTS 271 17 Fuggles writes (An autumn draught) JANE RENDELL 283 INDEX 300
