ABSTRACT This essay reads 'The Buribunks' as a biopolitical parody of the Hegelian
dialectic. Schmitt tells us that the essence of the Buribunk is the fact that they keep a diary …

The careful insights of Carl Schmitt's Die Buribunken resonate so strongly with the dominant
post millennial Weltanschauung that it could be supposed that he was prophetic rather than …

ABSTRACT Carl Schmitt's 'The Buribunks' describes a posthuman future where the very
human being of the Buribunks is ontologically entangled with the production and …

There is a holy trinity integral to Discipline and Punish, in which Jeremy Bentham, the
Panopticon, and discipline, are wrought together in such a way that each in some degree …

ABSTRACT This paper takes Die Buribunken seriously as good science fiction. It is argued
that it is good science fiction as it provides tropes, images and narratives through which the …

JM Coetzee has on several occasions been criticised for his failure to elaborate a political
vision of transformation beyond the social and political conditions that he describes in his …

164 Miguel Vatter illustration of the biopo liti cal core of neoliberalism is the idea that the
neoliberal “economic rule of law” introduces a new form of individuation that requires of …

Throughout The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault chides himself for engaging in"
schematic" exposition, by which he meant (by his standards) unforgivably" abstract" or" bald" …

The recent publication of key lectures given by Michel Foucault helps clarify the concept of
biopolitics, and illustrates its differences with disciplinary power. It appears however that …

For all their diversity, histories of sexuality and the body continue to worry away at one
central theme: how do culture and society actually affect individual lives and desires, if at …