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The New Biopolitics
Jiangxia Yu,Jingwei Liu +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigate the new biopolitics supported by the manipulation of modern biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, and reveal the possible hazards and deep contradictions inherent in this capital-controlled science, within the context of biocapitalism.Abstract:
The biotech revolution profoundly changes and reconstructs the Foucaultian concept of biopolitics from different dimensions. It declares the coming of the Age of Biocapitalism, which opens a new pattern of modern power allocation of life governance and shows people two prospects simultaneously: utopian hopes and dystopian desperation. Biocapitalism has not only produced ethical degeneration and cultural shock, but more importantly, has opened new areas for political hegemony and economic aggression through the reconstruction of biopolitics, and the enhancement of capital’s comprehensive dominance on nature and the human society. Therefore, it has become an area of serious, scholarly research in the biotech era to explore the implications of contemporary biopolitics, to take precautions against, and reduce the real risks of technocapitalism. This paper investigates the new biopolitics supported by the manipulation of modern biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, and unveils the possible hazards and deep contradictions inherent in this capital-controlled science, within the context of biocapitalism. It also seeks ways to prevent technological alienation and to reconstruct political rationality. It argues that entrepreneurs, scientists, companies and universities of developed countries must realize the limits of capital expansion and the self―regulatory capability of the market, and, then, assume ethical responsibilities as biocapital holders.read more
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus,Paul Rabinow +1 more
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The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
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