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Biopolitical bordering: Enacting populations as intelligible objects of government:

Stephan Scheel
- 26 Jan 2020 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 4, pp 571-590
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In this article, the authors argue that these discussio... argue that the discussion of how to interpret and use biopolitics has been fiercely debated, usually in highly generalized terms.
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Since Foucault introduced the notion of biopolitics, it has been fiercely debated—usually in highly generalized terms—how to interpret and use this concept. This article argues that these discussio...

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From ‘if‐then’ to ‘what if?’ Rethinking healthcare algorithmics with posthuman speculative ethics

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that evidence-based medicine relies on research and data to create pathways for patient journeys, and they establish what could be called health care algorithmics, a mode of management of healthcare that produces forms of algorithmic governmentality.
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Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self

TL;DR: The article argues that the transformation of border control practices into practices driven by data processing makes it more difficult for border crossers to manoeuvre the system and legally challenge decisions based on data processing, thus, hampering the transformationof the border from below.
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The Politics of Life Itself

Nikolas Rose
TL;DR: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways as mentioned in this paper, and the object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself, which has become one of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques.
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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

TL;DR: The Proliferation of Borders as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of political science that explores the role of borders in the formation and evolution of the modern world. But it does not address the problem of border control.
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A Sociology of Quantification

TL;DR: The authors analyzed quantification as a general sociological phenomenon and called for an ethics of numbers, drawing on scholarship across the social sciences in Europe and North America as well as humanistic inquiry.

After (a) Method

Peter Kelly