Biopolitics is one of the most influential paradigms in the human sciences and humanities today. This volume offers new ways to think of biopolitics as an explanatory model. Its contributors analyze theoretical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism.

Biotheory: An Introduction

Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock

Part 1 "Bios" in the Derrida-Foucault-Agamben Debate

1 Against Agamben: Or Living your Life, Zoe versus Bios in the Late Foucault

Paul Allen Miller

2 Between Deconstruction and Archaeology: The Derrida-Foucault Debate from

the "Classical Age" to "Biopower"

Jeffrey S. Librett

3 Bio-inscriptionality: The Eternal Return and Reproduction in Derrida's Life/Death Seminar

Kir Kuiken

4 Borderline Animal: Reflections On Derrida's Hedgehog

Brian O'Keeffe

5 Immunizing Life: Derrida, Esposito, and Mbembe

Zahi Zalloua

Part 2 Bio-materialities and Bio-revolution

6 Biopolitics and/as Infrastructure

Christopher Breu

7 Materiality in a Disenchanted Age

Nicole Simek

8 Earth, Life, Plasticity: Biopolitics, the Anthropocene, and the Problem of Form

Christian P. Haines

9 Bare Life at Sea (The Leper and the Plague)

Megan C. MacDonald

10 Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music

Jeffrey R. Di Leo

11 "Uno Mas": Transnational Biopolitical Labor Exploitation and Resistance

in Mining Communities of the Mexico/U.S. Border Region

Ericka Wills

12 Biometrics and Revolution

Peter Hitchcock

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty of Women's Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.