Claes Tängh Wrangel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claes Tängh Wrangel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claes Tängh |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrangel |
| SIGNATURE | WRANGEL C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1806-4347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Whose AI Problem? Critical Narratives and Practitioner Problematizations
Racialising the resilient brain
This article analyses how the US military constructs dangerous Others through the language of neurobiology, with reference to the resilience and plasticity of human brains. To explore this, we conduct a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis of the neurobiological research supported and disseminated by the US Department of War’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) programme. Our focus is on the racialised imaginary of the SMA programme, …
Racialised vocabularies of resilience
In a global era characterised by prolonged crises, the seemingly neutral concept of resilience has gained central importance across political, academic and public discourses. This special issue sheds light on the often-overlooked racialised underpinnings and articulations of resilience. Through diverse empirical case studies across what has been called the Western racialised assemblage — spanning security policy and military thinking, EU governan…
The biopolitics of algorithmic governmentality
With the objective to predict and pre-empt the emergence of political violence, the US Department of Defence (DoD) has devoted increasing attention to the intersection between neurobiology and artificial intelligence. Concepts such as ‘cognitive biotechnologies’, ‘digital biosecurity’ and large-scale collection of ‘neurodata’ herald a future in which neurobiological intervention on a global scale is believed to come of age. This article analyses …
Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial
The concept of the Anthropocene has reintroduced politics of denial at the centre of critical studies of international relations. This article interrogates Bruno Latour’s explanation of climate change denial with reference to an ontological difference between Modernity and the Anthropocene, together with his advocacy for a new language beyond the Modern gaze. Our aims are twofold: to disclose how Latour’s posthuman critique risk reproducing preva…
Biopolitics of hope and security
This article probes the relationship between hope and security, looking at how hope is appropriated and used by the US security apparatus under President Obama to pre-empt radicalisation. It looks specifically at strategic narratives designed to infuse hope within the global Muslim population – identified in US security discourse as being particularly vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. While critical studies of security often articulate hope an…
Recognising hope
Practices of global development have been critiqued for reproducing a notion of the suffering poor as bare life; passive, despairing and devoid of both hope and potentiality. In contrast, this article treats the experience of hope not as external to the governance of underdeveloped life but as a biopolitical technology central to its formation. Reading US President Obama's call to recognise underdeveloped life as inherently hopeful and potential,…
Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the future in bare life
The framework of resilience has been claimed to strip bodies of both hope and the promise of the future, reducing life to mere biology, concerned only with its survivability. This article interrogates such claims by critical theory, analysing the definitions of life and time embedded in them. Reading the figure of human nature as it appears in US President Obama's call for a common humanity – united by hope in a world of insurmountable insecurity…
Recognising hope
Practices of global development have been critiqued for reproducing a notion of the suffering poor as bare life; passive, despairing and devoid of both hope and potentiality. In contrast, this article treats the experience of hope not as external to the governance of underdeveloped life but as a biopolitical technology central to its formation. Reading US President Obama's call to recognise underdeveloped life as inherently hopeful and potential,…
Biopolitics of hope and security
This article probes the relationship between hope and security, looking at how hope is appropriated and used by the US security apparatus under President Obama to pre-empt radicalisation. It looks specifically at strategic narratives designed to infuse hope within the global Muslim population – identified in US security discourse as being particularly vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. While critical studies of security often articulate hope an…
Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial
The concept of the Anthropocene has reintroduced politics of denial at the centre of critical studies of international relations. This article interrogates Bruno Latour’s explanation of climate change denial with reference to an ontological difference between Modernity and the Anthropocene, together with his advocacy for a new language beyond the Modern gaze. Our aims are twofold: to disclose how Latour’s posthuman critique risk reproducing preva…
The biopolitics of algorithmic governmentality
With the objective to predict and pre-empt the emergence of political violence, the US Department of Defence (DoD) has devoted increasing attention to the intersection between neurobiology and artificial intelligence. Concepts such as ‘cognitive biotechnologies’, ‘digital biosecurity’ and large-scale collection of ‘neurodata’ herald a future in which neurobiological intervention on a global scale is believed to come of age. This article analyses …
Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the future in bare life
The framework of resilience has been claimed to strip bodies of both hope and the promise of the future, reducing life to mere biology, concerned only with its survivability. This article interrogates such claims by critical theory, analysing the definitions of life and time embedded in them. Reading the figure of human nature as it appears in US President Obama's call for a common humanity – united by hope in a world of insurmountable insecurity…
Recognising hope
Practices of global development have been critiqued for reproducing a notion of the suffering poor as bare life; passive, despairing and devoid of both hope and potentiality. In contrast, this article treats the experience of hope not as external to the governance of underdeveloped life but as a biopolitical technology central to its formation. Reading US President Obama's call to recognise underdeveloped life as inherently hopeful and potential,…
Biopolitics of hope and security
This article probes the relationship between hope and security, looking at how hope is appropriated and used by the US security apparatus under President Obama to pre-empt radicalisation. It looks specifically at strategic narratives designed to infuse hope within the global Muslim population – identified in US security discourse as being particularly vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. While critical studies of security often articulate hope an…
Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial
The concept of the Anthropocene has reintroduced politics of denial at the centre of critical studies of international relations. This article interrogates Bruno Latour’s explanation of climate change denial with reference to an ontological difference between Modernity and the Anthropocene, together with his advocacy for a new language beyond the Modern gaze. Our aims are twofold: to disclose how Latour’s posthuman critique risk reproducing preva…
The biopolitics of algorithmic governmentality
With the objective to predict and pre-empt the emergence of political violence, the US Department of Defence (DoD) has devoted increasing attention to the intersection between neurobiology and artificial intelligence. Concepts such as ‘cognitive biotechnologies’, ‘digital biosecurity’ and large-scale collection of ‘neurodata’ herald a future in which neurobiological intervention on a global scale is believed to come of age. This article analyses …
Racialised vocabularies of resilience
In a global era characterised by prolonged crises, the seemingly neutral concept of resilience has gained central importance across political, academic and public discourses. This special issue sheds light on the often-overlooked racialised underpinnings and articulations of resilience. Through diverse empirical case studies across what has been called the Western racialised assemblage — spanning security policy and military thinking, EU governan…
Whose AI Problem? Critical Narratives and Practitioner Problematizations
Racialising the resilient brain
This article analyses how the US military constructs dangerous Others through the language of neurobiology, with reference to the resilience and plasticity of human brains. To explore this, we conduct a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis of the neurobiological research supported and disseminated by the US Department of War’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) programme. Our focus is on the racialised imaginary of the SMA programme, …
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biopower (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Denial (2 works)