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Beyond Biopolitics Project 2005-2006
Beyond Biopolitics is a project of research, second of a series, following the 2003 symposium Future
Matters: technoscience, politics and cultural criticism. Beyond
Biopolitics returns to the concerns of Future Matters with a
specific interest in rethinking "race," technologies of
biopolitical control and political economies of affect. Beyond
Biopolitics explores the continuities and discontinuities between
colonialism and neocolonialism, slavery and affective labor,
settlement and diaspora, subject identities and bodies, and macro
and molecular organizations of populations. Beyond Biopoltics
explores race in its historical and transnational contexts in order
to analyze the various situations that constitute race and racism in
multiple locations of the world today. We take the concept of state
racism, as theorized by Michel Foucault and re-worked by
contemporary writers, as a point of departure. State racism
addresses asylum seekers, migrants, and others who have become
target populations to be controlled. Certainly in our contemporary
moment, state racism forms not only part of a nationalist politics,
but also a global politics. State racism extends biopolitics to the
control of capacities to live and potentials to work as these are
becoming exchangeable through the accumulation and mobilization of
biological life independent of a human subject.
Beyond Biopolitics, Symposium March 16 and 17
2006
A conversations with 25 scholars to explore
- state racism and its global instantiation both in historical
terms and in terms of the present and future, in relationship to
mass criminalization, war, and counter/terrorism as effects of
state and global governance.
- the relationship of the capacities to live and the deployment
of the discourses of biology and biotechnology We want to
rethink bodily matter - its materiality, its technicity, its
ontologies - in relationship to violence, scientific-medical
practices, genetics, biotechnologies, and bio-prospecting.
- the politics with which to confront racism, expanding the
objects, goals and analyses of anti-racist struggles. We hope to
reconceive the politics of representation and ideology in the
contexts of the assemblage of culture, matter and
biotechnologies brought into play by the present political
economy.
Future Matters is a research project
addressing a rich range of issues broadly concerned with a shift in
governance, from the anatomopolitics of discipline towards the
biopolitics of control, from a politics of representation and
interpellation into national and familial ideologies to a
biopolitics of populations in terms of chances for life and death,
health and morbidity, fertility and infertility, happiness and
unhappiness, freedom and imprisonment. See a collection of essays
collected in Fall 2004 special issue of Social Text, edited by
Patricia T. Clough.
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Presentations (win media video
streams)
Race, population and
technologies of control
 Eugene Thacker
Eyal Weizman
Jasbir Puar
Questions for the panel
Detention, death and documentation
 Cagatay Topal
Sora Han
Derek Gregory
Indebtedness, freedom and state
racism
Ann Anagnost
Richard Dienst
Stefano Harney
Fred Moten
Invested nature and the science and
death
Michael Dorsey
Richard Doyle
Cori Hayden
Eventuation, bodies and memories
 Saidiya Hartman
Brian Massumi
Amit Rai
May Joseph
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