Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality

AUTHORS
Julian Reid has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, Sussex University, King’s College London, and the
University of Lapland (Finland) where he currently holds the Chair in International
Relations. His publications include The Biopolitics of the War on
Terror (2006) and The Liberal Way of War (with Michael Dillon). His new
book, Deleuze & Fascism (co-edited with Brad Evans) is forthcoming in 2013.
Cecilia Sjöholm is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her
books include Aisthesis, estetikens historia del 1 (ed. with Sara Danius and
Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 2012), Translatability (ed. with Sara Arrhenius and
Magnus Bergh, 2011), Kristeva and the Political (2005), The Antigone
Complex; Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire (2004), Föreställningar
om det omedvetna: Stagnelius, Ekelöf and Norén (1996), and Ensam
och pervers (with Sara Arrhenius, 1995.) Her research interests are currently
focused on issues in phenomenology and aesthetics, with a particular view
on the history of aesthetics and its relation to politics.
Łukasz Stanek has taught at the ETH Zurich and Harvard GSD, and is the
2011-13 A. W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced
Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C. Stanek authored Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture,
Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (2011) and he is currently
editing Lefebvre’s unpublished book on architecture. Stanek’s second field
of research is the export of architecture and urbanism from socialist
countries to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East during the Cold War. On this
topic, he co-edited a recent issue of The Journal of Architecture (17:3, 2012).
Sven-Olov Wallenstein is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University
in Stockholm, and is the editor-in-chief of Site. He is the translator of works
by Baumgarten, Winckelmann, Lessing, Kant, Hegel, Frege, Husserl,
Heidegger, Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Agamben, as well as
the author of numerous books on contemporary philosophy, art, and architecture.
Recent publications include Essays, Lectures (2007); Thinking
Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Art, Philosophy and Politics (co-ed. with
Daniel Birnbaum and Joseph Backstein, 2007); The Silences of Mies (2008);
Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture (2009); 1930/31: Swedish
Modernism at the Crossroads (with Helena Mattsson, 2009); Swedish
Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State (co-ed. with
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