Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality

FOUCAULT, BIOPOLITICS, AND GOVERNMENTALITY
modernism and Politics in Swedish Architecture (together with Catharina
Gabrielsson). Mattsson is an editor for the culture periodical Site.
Adeena Mey is a Swiss Science Foundation doctoral researcher at the University
of Lausanne and a research fellow at Ecal, Lausanne University of
Art and Design, Switzerland. His research interests include psychiatric
culture as well as experimental and artists' film. Recent publications include
a co-edited volume of the film studies journal Décadrages on Expanded
Cinema (forthcoming) and an essay in Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay
Waterfall, ed, Stefan Banz (2010).
Catherine Mills is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at Monash University. She
is the author of two books, Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and Biopolitics
(2011) and The Philosophy of Agamben (2008), as well as numerous articles
in political theory, feminist theory and bioethics. Her current research
focuses on issues in biopolitics and bioethics, especially pertaining to
human reproduction.
Warren Neidich is an artist and theorist who works between Los Angeles
and Berlin. His work has focused on how artistic interventions create
places for the disorganization and then reorganization of the understanding,
in an inversion of Joseph Kosuth’s famous formula: “Art before Philosophy,
not After.” Recent awards include The Murray and Vickie Pepper
Distinguished Visiting Artist and Scholar Award, Pitzer College, 2012, The
Fulbright Scholar Program Fellowship, Fine Arts Category, 2011 and the
Vilem Flusser Theory Award, Berlin, 2010.
Jakob Nilsson received his PhD from the Department of Cinema Studies,
Stockholm University, and the Research School of Aesthetics, Stockholm
University. His doctoral thesis, The Untimely-Image: On Contours of the
New in Political Film-Thinking, was published in 2012. He has contributed
articles for Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, SITE, and Rhizomes.
Johanna Oksala is Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy,
History, Culture and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is
the author of Foucault on Freedom (2005), How to Read Foucault (2007),
Foucault, Politics, and Violence (2012) and Political Philosophy (forthcoming
in 2013).
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