The Shadows of Atheology: Epidemics, Power and Life after Foucault

The Shadows of Atheology Epidemics, Power and Life after Foucault

This essay examines a hidden link in biopolitical thinking after Foucault — the relation between biology and theology. The result is a turn away from the dichotomy of life/death and towards a life-after-life, an afterlife that is vitalist, networked and immanent. The model for this, however, is not...

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Published in:Theory, culture & society Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 134 - 152
Main Author: Thacker, Eugene
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-11-2009
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Biology
Biopolitics
Death
Demonology
Essays
Foucault, Michel
Politics
Postmodernism
Sovereignty
Theology
United States > US
biopolitics
Foucault
demonology
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Summary:This essay examines a hidden link in biopolitical thinking after Foucault — the relation between biology and theology. The result is a turn away from the dichotomy of life/death and towards a life-after-life, an afterlife that is vitalist, networked and immanent. The model for this, however, is not in postmodernity but in the pre-modernity of medicine, plague and demonology.
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ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276409347698