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lesja.bsky.social
The beauty of neoliberal biopolitics is that being a good biopolitical subject can take so much work that people don't have time or agency left for other shit
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5d
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 10
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
shelleytremain.bsky.social
A BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about outstanding forthcoming work on Michel Foucault to commemorate the centennial anniversary this year of his birth in 1926!

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Update on Special Issue of FPQ on Foucault and Marginalized Feminist Approaches and Perspectives
Facebook is buzzing in anticipation of the publication of The Foucauldian Mind in September to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. Edited by the illustrious Dan…
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February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
dipperdesperado.bsky.social
DECISION TO LEAVE x MAD SISTERS OF ESI x ELDEN RING

🩻 necropolitical vs biopolitical governance
🌿 brambles as a symbol of resistance
🔮magic inspired by trickster deities and renowned ancestors
🏛️nation run by a university
🥀doting stoolie

#QuestPit #F #A #W #U #S #T
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February 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM
bloomfilters.plus
you know "heterosexuality is a regime" but are you ready for both "the modern institution of biopolitical heterosexuality and the modern biopolitical surveillance tool of biological sex are colonizer impositions a thousand times more than 'lgbt' is" would people grasp that
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
shelleytremain.bsky.social
The first two days of #PhiDisSocCh6 have been remarkable. The presentations and Q and As have been outstanding!

Today is the third and final day. You can find today's program/schedule of events and registration link in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post!

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Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day Three
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Friday, January 30, 2026 10:00am-10:05am Welcome to Day Three of #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) 10:05am…
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January 30, 2026 at 11:50 AM
kirkham.bsky.social
Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send [email protected] a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb
The proliferation of digital tools in public health has spurred the emergence of ‘digital health’, a term encompassing the varied technologies that utilise digital media to manage illness and support wellbeing (Lupton, 2022). Meanwhile, the rise of One Health as an influential public health paradigm – and with it the idea that animals, humans, and the environment form an interdependent system that should be governed in a coordinated, interdisciplinary manner to secure positive health for all – has contributed to new technologies that seek to monitor and manage disease emergence across species lines (Braverman, 2022). Despite this ambition, much geographical analysis has argued that digital health interventions are anthropocentric, attending to non-humans through modes of surveillance and datafication in so much as they represent a risk to human health, furthering an unequal public health paradigm that leaves little space for local contingency and the wants and needs of non-human actors (Hinchliffe, 2015; Lupton, 2022). Nevertheless, recent geographical work channeling more affirmative ‘digital ecologies’ approaches to the digitisation of more-than-human relations has considered how digital technologies also cultivate understanding of and responsiveness to how pathogens, disease vectors, reservoirs, and environments in specific contexts are implicated in and impacted by disease emergence, throwing light on how digitisation may reconfigure disease ecologies to enable life in less-pathological configurations (Turnbull, 2022; Kirkham, 2026). Expanding on understandings of digitisation as a process that materially configures disease ecologies to produce programmes of biopolitical intervention, intersubjective experiences of illness and wellbeing, and uneven health outcomes across species lines, this panel interrogates how digital technologies are shaping whose, and what, health is made to matter across diverse contexts. How can we merge digital geographies and health geography scholarship to apprehend the digital mediation of illness and wellbeing? What happens when digital health technologies are inserted into unequal health geographies? How do these technologies reconfigure the topologies of more-than-human relations that drive disease emergence? And how may digital health technology sediment or open taken-for-granted understandings of public health? We are interested in papers answering: • The role of digital technology in practices of biosecurity and disease surveillance at the human-animal-environment nexus, including the ways in which processes of digital datafication, visualisation, and mapping alter how disease situations are apprehended and acted within; • how digital health technologies mediate the experiential dimensions of human-non-human encounter in the context of disease governance; • the political economies of digital disease governance and the role of digital technologies in challenging or supporting pathological industries; • the role of digital technologies as they operate within agro-industrial and veterinary sectors, and the consequences this has for labour, care practices, and more-than-human health; • how material infrastructures of the digital, such as data centres, chip production, and e-waste, are implicated in disease emergence and environmental health; • how digital technologies may or may not transform conventional public health approaches to facilitate the assembly of ‘healthy publics’ or a ‘more-than-One Health’ agenda (Hinchliffe, 2015; Hinchliffe et al., 2018).
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
lromeranth.bsky.social
Blech, just tell me that you want progressives to embrace the biopolitical enslavement of women and be done with it. Progressives have lots of ideas but you don’t like them.
January 13, 2026 at 2:39 PM
bloomfilters.plus
i mean sex & race specifically. people retreat gender and ethnicity/nation to the social but simply to renaturalize gender & nation to the body by way of sex and race. the battlefield of today is biopolitical, and if you can't politicize the conceptualization of the biological then the right will
January 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
there are answers. but understanding them requires a full appreciation of the Old System--a vision of the world divided into biopolitical communities competing for scarce resources, and all that that entails.

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January 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
theoryculturesociety.org
From the Archive: Michael Dillon and Luis Lobo-Guerrero, 'The Biopolitical Imaginary of Species-being' - revises Foucault's account of biopolitics in the light of the impact of the molecular and digital revolutions on `the politics of life itself'. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Biopolitical Imaginary of Species-being - Michael Dillon, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, 2009
This article revises Foucault's account of biopolitics in the light of the impact of the molecular and digital revolutions on `the politics of life itself&...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:43 PM
elifriedman.bsky.social
Not the most important of China's biopolitical interventions, but probably the funniest

"the country as of January 1 began charging value-added tax on condoms and other contraceptives."
Ten years after it ended its ‘one-child’ policy, China’s push for more babies isn’t winning its citizens over | CNN
Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
decayfsu.bsky.social
It's power. It's just power. A big part of fascism is wielding biopolitical power as a bludgeon and this is just an extension of other attacks on sick and disabled people: Culling the "weak" and "undesirable".
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
theoryculturesociety.org
From the Archive: Ash Amin, 'The Remainders of Race' - explains the contemporary trend in the West towards the ‘racialization of everything’ as the product of mutually reinforcing mischief between vernacular and biopolitical racism. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
cominsitu.bsky.social
looking forward to the article called “Durchschnitt in Marx: Mathematical, Geological, Biopolitical” (HM 2026)
December 12, 2024 at 12:19 PM
ctr4process.bsky.social
NEW BOOK: Organism-Oriented Ontology

Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

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October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
jk-myhumbleopinion.bsky.social
Biopolitical Darwinism: America Is Being Culled
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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION) on MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy
Great article. You're right on the money. We the common people are a drain on resources , and therefore disposable. Survival of the fittest can literally be interpreted as only the wealthy have a g...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
lilobri.bsky.social
Biopolitical Darwinism: America Is Being Culled
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Biopolitical Darwinism: America Is Being Culled
Jim O’Neill, Peter Thiel and the elite plan to kill off the weak.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
drpatmas.bsky.social
Biopolitical Darwinism: America Is Being Culled
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Jim O'Neill just took over the CDC. Do you know who he is?
Biopolitical Darwinism: America Is Being Culled
Jim O’Neill, Peter Thiel and the elite plan to kill off the weak.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
shelleytremain.bsky.social
Highlights from Another Year of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY!
All of them (and others) are worth revisiting!

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Some of Our Favourite Posts of 2024
As the year comes to a close, a review of some of our favourite posts from the year seems apropos. I have catalogued these posts according to the month in which they were initially posted. Yet the …
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December 30, 2024 at 1:56 AM
ttpphd.bsky.social
Let's talk about gender and biopower!🧵

The Biopolitics of Gender
Jemima Repo (2015)

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#Gender #LGBTQIA #Philosophy #Feminism #Biopower
The Biopolitics of Gender Jemima Repo Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault's mid-twentieth century genealogy of sexuality Argues that gender is an apparatus of biopower invented in the postwar period in order to regulate the reproduction of capital and population Demonstrates how gender forges biopolitical connections between sexology, psychiatry, feminism, demography, economics, and public policy Reconsiders the emancipatory potential of the idea of gender for feminist theory and politics today
December 31, 2024 at 5:46 PM
rosendogonzalez.bsky.social
Fascism is anti-humanism because 1. rejects human equality and dignity 2. Glorify violence as cleansing and adapt It yo neodarwinism 3. Talks about an uber-men (spoil: them) 4. Animalice human beings under a biopolítical viewpoint.
June 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
tomkindlon.bsky.social
Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome by Joanne Hunt

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Disability & Society Understanding disability/impairment, inclusively: the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome — Joanne Hunt "A recurring motif in the biopolitical governing of disability/impairment is the relegation of already marginalised knowledges to the lowest form of evidence, and/or co-option of those knowledges in ways that serve elite interests."
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
shelleytremain.bsky.social
My latest at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY! In this post, I reflect on how the neoliberal eugenics that motivate bioethics have compromised philosophy and philosophers.

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The Call is Coming from Inside the House; Or How Bioethics Has Compromised Philosophy and Philosophers
Bioethics and the neoliberal eugenics that motivates it have thoroughly compromised philosophy and philosophers–politically, institutionally, ethically, and economically. That is to say, the …
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December 31, 2024 at 3:04 PM
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
Michael Lutz posts: HARRY POTTER SERIES: love is good, actually ANIMORPHS SERIES: life under late capitalism is subject to endless biopolitical exploitation JK ROWLING: what if wizards traveled through chimneys and didn't invent toilets oh ho ho KA APPLEGATE: what if the living envied the dead
July 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
cowbellemoo.lets.abolish.family
reminds me of a fav Sophie Lewis quote:
a quote from My Octopus Girlfriend by Sophie Lewis: But queers are not really interested in blurring, or for that matter delineating, the terms sex, the erotic, and fucking. These distinctions are clearly culturally and temporally bound, but more importantly: Who do they serve? Sex under capitalism can never be fully free from the compulsion to enjoy, to consume, to marry, to reproduce, and to work. The enemies of queer life (including on the left) see whatever we do as disgusting, regardless, unless we do it within the institutions of property or marriage, and even then behind closed doors. The octophobes, for their part, were wittingly or unwittingly sanctioning a capitalist ordering of sex and the erotic. Sure, the octopus is not queer, and nor is Foster, but the outcry at my reading of their encounter as queer, and as sexual, was of a piece with the biopolitical imperative to police public expressions of deviant sexualities: a centuries-old project of class war and state formation that primarily affects dykes, whores, faggots, kinksters, and sodomites, but equally sucks a lot of joy out of life for everybody else.
December 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM