On parabiopolitical reason

Bibliographic Data

ID2401976
AuthorsJames D Faubion (0000-0003-0847-3008, Rice University, Texas, USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume19
Issue2
Pages219-237
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499618770558
OpenAlexW2803764635
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited36

Our current ecumene is governmentalistically plural. The biopolitical technology of the regulation of one or another bounded population remains active among many other such technologies. The mode of veridiction proper to biopolitics is actuarial; it has a proper epistemology. In these two respects, it stands beside and apart from the mode of veridiction proper to a parabiopolitics, which is scenaristic and grounded in a sophiology. I extract the lineaments of parabiopolitical reason from two sources. One is an exercise undertaken in Greece between 2002 and 2004 under the mandate of the European program, FORESIGHT. The other is the work of Pierre Wack, whose methodology of scenario planning brings the difference that makes a difference between biopolitical epistemology and parabiopolitical sophiology most brightly to light

Biopower · Epistemology · Futures studies · Mandate · Plural · Political science · Politics · Population · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub