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For Foucault, biopolitics and biopower concern the management of populations seen as machines for production wherein increased productivity across domains is organized unequally with the production of wealth focused on certain sectors (industrial, military, pharmaceutical, etc.) over others. This themed edition critically examines numerous problems resulting from an organization of power anchored in ideological taxonomies of biological life in relation to performance. Our starting hypothesis urgently asks whether biological life—having been captured by the field of power—has become an essential issue of control under the premises of care and progress, with various critical implications attached, as recently seen in the face of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic.
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1 Vulnerable Paths to Freedom
SIMON DONGER AND EVE KATSOURAKI
7 Inscribing Bodily Narratives: Four-fold structure of biopower in
the Festival of Spring and Flowers
ECE KONUK AND V. ŞAFAK UYSAL
19 Police: Choreographing demobilisation
MARC VILLANUEVA MIR
27 Breaking Bureaucracy: Law, performing chronopolitics and the
logic of terror in Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Te Urewera 2007 raids
RYAN HARTIGAN
38 Performing Disidentification and Disrupting Neoliberal
Multiculturalism in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness
NIMALAN YOGANATHAN
48 Marriage in Death and the Cyberspace of Feminist Intervention
in Contemporary China
YIZHOU HUANG
55 The Transindividual Act of Self-Burning
BOJANA CVEJIĆ
64 Performing Viral Resistance
ANTHONY KUBIAK
73 Mette’s Pharmacy: An immunitary detour into contaminated
publics
EYLÜL FIDAN AKINCI
83 Performing Livelier Biosecurity in Human–Candida Artistic
Encounters
OLGA TIMURGALIEVA
93 On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food
STEPHEN LOO
105 Performative Scores in Pandemic Times
ANDREAS LØPPENTHIN AND DORTE BJERRE JENSEN
115 The Political Theatre of Dirty Hands in the UK Government
Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
MOIRA S. LEWITT
122 Biopolitical Animation: A lockdown reading of Mandel’s Station
Eleven
GRAHAM WOLFE
131 minkfestival.com: An online festival about the zoo of the pandemic
KATERINA SOTIRIOU AND ELENI TIMPLALEXI
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REVIEWS
139 Ballet, Biopolitics and the Relevance of History
MADISON MAINWARING
140 The ‘Squishy Science’ of Theatre and the Post-Relativistic
Universe
JONATHAN W. MARSHALL
142 Towards an Ecodramaturgical Human
TALLEY MURPHY
143 Activating Specimens
MIKE VANDEN HEUVEL
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145 Notes on Contributors
