Ambivalent thinking amid pandemic biopolitics

This review article surveys recent work in political theory that has brought together biopolitics and the COVID-19 pandemic. Centered on 2021 books by Giorgio Agamben and Benjamin Bratton, the essay outlines prominent visions of “negative” (Agamben) and “positive” (Bratton) biopolitical responses to the pandemic, engages public reactions to these approaches, and reassesses the position of biopolitical thinking in light of these. In doing so, the article recalls the foundations and original interventions of biopolitical theory, calling for a renewed engagement with the perspectives afforded by biopolitics that pushes past the negative/positive binary. Ultimately, the essay gathers together major developments in biopolitical thinking today, counters moves to discard the theoretical approach despite the limitations of recent examples, and repositions biopolitics as an ambivalent tool for political thought and practice going forward

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Biopower · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Governmentality · Pandemic · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Public reason · Sociology · State of exception · Vision · Anthropology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology

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