| Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts Contributor(s): Rawes, Peg (Editor), Mathews, Timothy (Editor), Loo, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1780769121 ISBN-13: 9781780769127 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Art & Politics - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 700.1 |
| Series: International Library of Visual Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.95 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |