Predicate: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Journal
Theme: New Biopolitics
Michel Foucault defines biopolitics as “this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has
the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge and apparatuses of
security [or dispositifs] as its essential technical instrument.” Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze,
in turn, describe the “biopolitical turn” as “a proliferation of studies, claiming Foucault as an
inspiration, on the relations between ‘life’ and ‘politics.’”
As scholars have further engaged with and complicated the concept of biopolitics, new trends