In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses anima…
The Emergence of Blood Science -- "Contagious Blood" in German Fiction and Early Blood Science -- Origins of Serology -- The Völkisch Notion of "Blood Defilement" -- Seroanthropology -- Jewish Physicians and Blood Science -- Postwar Blood Science -- Seroanthropology in the Early…
Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin bu…
Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin bu…
A history of the short-lived preudoscientific discipline "seroanthropology", adepts of which claimed that it was possible to identify a person's race through blood analysis. Although, for at least two centuries, there was widespread belief in a connection between a person's orig…
Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin bu…
Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics 6 situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at …
Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics -- situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at…