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Abnormal (Foucault), 1, 30, 36, 83, 87, 114, 211n1, 212n7, 220n77, 238n15
abnormality. See normalization
abortion, 7, 40–41, 50–51; emotional life of woman, 168–69; exception, states of, 7, 36–37, 119–26, 133; Foucault, power and, 178–85; France, 125, 143, 159–64; as genocide, 4, 60, 209n61; “heartbeat bans,” 123, 228n28, 228–29n29, 229n30, 229nn30, 31; illegal, dangers of, 154, 161; illegibility and, 164, 168, 176–78; as impediment to futures, 4, 65, 153; legal regimes, 120–26, 129; miscarriage, 171–72, 245n65; normalization of, 162–63; power and, 178–85; precarious right to, 120–26, 137; Roe v. Wade, 122–24, 127, 168; Romania, 154, 174–76; sex-selective, in China, 115; state criminal laws, 122–24; surrogacy and, 180–81, 244n60, 246n85, 247n88; third-term, 57; United States, 122–25; women as decision makers, 4–8, 36, 50–51, 104, 121, 126–27
absent concepts, 5–6, 10, 28, 61, 151; interpretive keys, 105, 110, 111, 115; oscillations in Foucault and Esposito, 105–16
administration of life, 2, 17, 24, 32, 35–36, 64, 73, 76–77, 96, 102–4, 106–12, 116–17, 136–42, 160; Polizeiwissenschaft, 35, 77, 95, 200–1n83; powers of death and, 105–9; precariousness and, 146–51, 154
adoption, 42–43
African American women, 60, 203n14, 209nn60, 61. See also racialization
After Tiller (Shane and Wilson), 57, 201n4, 205–6n32
Agamben, Giorgio, 7–11, 13–14, 32, 38, 72, 74, 103–4, 117–20, 126, 130, 185; biopolitics of modernity, 132–33; feminism and, 128–30; homo sacer, 127–28; overlaps with Foucault, 141–43; passive citizen, 133–35; sexual difference, neglect of, 128–32; zoe and bios distinction, 119, 130–32, 134, 159; Works: Homo Sacer, 103, 117–18, 127–32; Remnants of Auschwitz, 120. See also bare life
ages and epochs, 15, 20, 25–27, 31–32, 71, 195–96n23, 195n25
alliance, 31–32, 88–90, 220n74, 221–22n85. See also family spaces
ambivalence of madness, 25
anomie, 119–20, 124, 126–27, 132–33, 139
Antigone, 46, 47–48, 203n12, 204nn19, 20
antilife, 4, 42, 44–45, 70, 98, 100–1, 187, 208–9n58
antisociality, 4, 41, 101, 186; reproductive politics and, 57–59; sinthomosexual as figure of, 45–46
‘Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion’ (Johnson), 144, 168, 243–44n53
Aristotle, 130
bare life, 7, 8–9, 39, 104, 118–20, 192n8; absent concepts, 10; Butler on, 147; citizenship and, 129–35; fetus and, 170–74; political value of, 159–61; women’s reproductive life as, 127–28. See also homo sacer; life
The Beast and the Sovereign (Derrida), 31, 32–33
Beauvoir, Simone de, 55–56
Behrisch, Lars, 79
Bell, Vikki, 215n30
Berlant, Lauren, 7, 39, 163, 188, 205n28, 246n77
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 28
biopoliticization of women’s reproductivity, 2, 7–8, 127–28
biopolitics/biopolitical, 2, 13–14, 221n81; bodies and populations, 66–70; dispersed, 35–37; excess, 108–9, 116–17; health concerns, 2, 4, 35–36, 51, 61, 62, 66, 74; life emerges with, 110–11, 117; modernity and, 132–33; paradoxes, 60, 107–9, 116; powers of death as underside of, 22, 31, 64–65, 95–97, 105–8; racism of, 68–69; reproduction, 112–13; reproductive futurism and, 61–63; reversal of politics of life into politics of death, 107–9, 111–13, 115; sexual difference and, 37–38; sexuality and, 32–33; sovereignty, relationship to, 19–20, 106–9, 116–18, 121, 141–43, 161; thanatopolitical, move to, 95–98, 242n44. See also biopower; thanatopolitics/thanatopolitical
biopower, 3, 20–22, 31–33, 86, 88–89, 93, 95, 105–9, 111; sexuality and, 61, 67, 73. See also biopolitics/biopolitical; power
Bios (Espositio), 105–7, 110, 111–15
birthrate, 2, 3, 32, 35, 61, 64, 71, 77–78, 90, 93, 100, 114, 116, 136
The Birth of the Clinic (Foucault), 16–17, 145
Bloch, Ernst, 10
Brown, Wendy, 13, 39, 59–60, 117, 154, 164, 226–27n18, 249n99
Butler, Judith, 3, 7, 9, 39, 102; Antigone, view of, 47; ethical life, 146, 155, 158–59, 170, 190; precariousness, view of, 146–51; Works: Frames of War, 9, 17, 144, 146, 149, 151–55, 186; Gender Trouble, 148, 237nn10, 11, 241n37; Giving an Account of Oneself, 148, 158, 170, 175–76, 185, 248n94; Precarious Life, 149–50, 156; Subjects of Desire, 145, 150
Cain, Herman, 60
calculability, 47–49, 55, 56, 59–61
camp, as anomic space, 119–20, 129, 132–33, 140, 142, 231n44, 231n45
Canguilhem, Georges, 74
Child, figure of, 40–45, 101, 211n72; Child of the Future, 49–51; as figure of continuity, 43–45; flexible possibilities for, 62–63; as heteronormative fixation, 40; imaginary Child of gay parenting, 42–43; in James, 49–51; Tiny Tim figure, 43, 45, 48, 59
children, 1–2; European, as vulnerable, 98–99; feminist images of, 54–55; masturbating, 29–32, 64, 65–66, 73, 83–84, 96–97, 219n69; metabodies, 31–32, 34; moral duty toward, 80–81; mortality rates, 93
The Children of Men (James), 49–52
A Christmas Tale (Dickens), 46
citizenship, 129–32; living dead reproductive life, 136–37; passive, 133–35
classical age, 25–26. See also ages and epochs
clinic: France, changes in abortion law, 159–64; “outside,” 173–76; precariousness and fetal life, 151–59
Clinton, Bill, 40
colonialism, 33, 65–69, 98–100
Comstock Law, 122
Condorcet, Marquis de, 55–56, 207n43
conduct, 2, 3, 17, 23–24, 65, 99, 121; of conduct, 78, 79, 85; of consultation, 162–63; counterconduct, 189, 217–18n50, 223n94; reproductive futurism and, 35–36, 65; reproductive responsibilization and, 80–82, 143, 159, 161, 187
conservative defensiveness, 40, 42–45, 62
consultation, conducts of, 162–63
contemporary, 26–27. See also ages and epochs; present
contingent formations, 113, 173, 216n35, 220n73; ethical, 146, 155, 158–59, 163, 190; of life, 15–16, 35, 66, 69, 74, 146, 149, 187–88; of procreation, 71, 78, 80, 115, 146; of responsibilization, 66, 158–59, 176
Cooper, Melinda, 231n45
counterconduct, 189, 217–18n50, 223n94
critical history, 16
critical race theory, 128–29
Critique de la raison negre (Mbembe), 9
Daniels, Cynthia, 248–49n98
Das, Veena, 9
de Gouges, Olympe, 206n34, 207–8n45
Dean, Tim, 57–58
death, 4, 7–9; as collateral damage, 23; different forms, 17; of futures, 98–100; forms of political power and, 19–20, 22, 93, 118, 141, 160, 224n97; gay men as “culture” of, 42, 202n6; making of, 100–1; maternal failings as cause, 97, 177; murder, indirect forms, 22, 101, 115–16, 119, 137, 141–143, 154, 173–75, 207n44, 222–23n91; reversal of politics of life, 107–9, 111–13, 115; “slow death,” 6–7; techniques of, 21–22; “vital,” 22–23; women associated with delivery of, 5, 6, 36, 65. See also thanatopolitics
death, powers of, 22–23, 95–97, 102, 119, 185, 224n2; autodestruction, 107–10; as end point of biopower’s process, 106–11; as underside of biopolitical, 22, 31, 64–65, 95–98, 105–8
death drive, 44–45, 52, 62, 198n51
death penalty, 6, 8, 20–23, 107, 159–60, 197n39, 228n25; differentiations of, 21–22; exception, states of, 7, 36–37; future impeded by, 34–36; justifications for, 22–23; women and, 6, 33–36
Death Penalty Seminar (Derrida), 6, 8, 32–33, 37, 197n40
decision making, 53, 121, 143, 153, 177, 184–89; decisional responsibility, 157–58, 163; Gilligan on, 164–68; Jenkins on, 170–74; Johnson on, 168–70; moral thought, 164–70
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, 133–35
decompositions, 21–25. See also segmentations of power
deconstitution, 156, 159. See also desubjectivation; illegibility
“A Defense of Abortion” (Thompson), 245–46n68
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 42
degeneracy, 16, 17, 31, 34, 65, 68, 216n39; debauched sexuality, 96–97; racialized, 98–100; “types,” 66
dehumanization, 149–50, 155–56, 192n8
delegation, biopolitical, 161
delegitimation, 3, 59, 61, 184, 232n56, 246n76
Démar, Claire, 53–54
demographics, 20, 72, 76, 78, 93–94, 110, 121
Derrida, Jacques, 6, 185, 198n51, 249n100; anesthetization, 8, 33; counter-readings of Foucault’s figures, 25–26; deconstructions, 14–15; first essay on Foucault, 29–30; interrogation of Foucauldian present, 24–28; on relation of death penalty to biopolitics, 22; sexual difference addressed, 8, 37–38; survivance, 24, 38; Works: The Beast and the Sovereign, 31, 32; Death Penalty Seminar, 6, 33, 37; Of Grammatology, 30; Politics of Friendship, 33; “To Do Justice to Freud,” 28, 31, 37
Des habitudes secrètes (Rozier), 83
Descartes, Rene, 25, 26, 29, 197–98n44, 198n45
desubjectivation, 3, 145, 156, 159, 185–86
Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid, 128
différance, 30
disciplinary modes, 3, 18–20, 23, 36, 85, 88, 92, 94, 101, 195–96n25, 196–97n35; control of sexuality, 24, 72–73
Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 33, 103, 160
disposability, 7, 9, 124, 171, 172, 173, 182, 229n32
dissemination, 35–37, 94, 103, 224n97
domus, 131
Donzelot, Jacques, 83, 85, 95–96, 218n55 221–22n85
Dorlin, Elsa, 5, 98, 99, 214n22
Duden, Barbara, 163, 240–41n35
Due Process Clause, 122
Dutot, Nicolas, 78
Dworkin, Richard, 52, 168, 208n49
economic concerns, 75–76; reproductive futurism, 41, 48–49, 59
Edelman, Lee, 4, 39, 40–63, 66, 70, 101, 191n2; queer negativity, 40, 50, 57–58, 210n64; sinthomosexual, 11, 45–48, 52–53, 63, 203n13, 204n17, 204n23. See also Child, figure of; No Future (Edelman); queer negativity
ego, conservative defensiveness, 40, 43–45
emergency, state of, 122, 126, 133
epistemological frame, 17, 149, 151, 152, 155
Eribon, Didier, 72
Esposito, Roberto, 5, 7, 13, 23, 39, 72, 74, 103–4, 109–13, 136, 154, 185; “forestalled life,” 105–6, 114–16; Foucault, oscillations with, 105–16; interpretive keys, 105, 110, 111, 115; on state racism, 106–7, 225–26n13
Essai sur la police générale (Herbert), 79
Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus), 80–81
ethical life, 146, 155, 158–59, 170, 175, 185–90, 247–48n93; hypergenealogy, 11, 185–87
eugenics, 17, 111, 113, 114, 124, 217–18n50
exception, states of, 7, 36–37, 120–26, 133, 172; gender exceptionalism, 187, 214n25
exclusion, included, 132, 135, 140, 149
expert knowledges, 74, 76, 83, 85
failure, of author, 10. See also reserves, suspended.
failure, of sovereign subjects, 163–64, 177. See also responsibility
family spaces, 3, 39, 82–90, 218n55; control of sexuality, 75–76; divergence and incongruence in, 90–94; emergent forms, 82–83; as milieu, 90, 93; modes of power and, 85–87, 219n61; mother as destructive figure, 99–100; subordination of mother, 84–85, 91–92
Farge, Arlette, 86
Fassin, Didier, 13, 20, 74, 215–16n33
Fécondité (Zola), 66
feminism, 41, 140; abortion, approaches to, 170–71; Agamben and, 128–32; critique of visual elimination of pregnant woman, 50–51; Foucault on, 178–79; rhetorical history, 53–55; sinthomosexual of, 55–57
Ferrarese, Estelle, 242n47
fetus: ambiguity of, 127, 152, 155, 159, 169–73; bare life and, 170–74; fetal motherhood, 205nn28, 30; grievability of, 171–73, 244n58; personhood rights, 123, 230n33, 248–49n98; precariousness and, 151–59; rights of, 123, 138, 139; ultrasound imaging, 157, 163, 177
finitude, human, 25
Forti, Simona, 7
Foucault, Michel: Derrida’s engagement with, 8, 22–30; Esposito, oscillations with, 105–16; lack of attention to sexual difference, 37–38, 82–87; lexicon, 24–25; No Future and, 61–63; paradoxes in, 60, 105–9; power and abortion, 178–85; reserves, 14–16, 35; reserves, suspended, 28–32, 38–39, 65, 84–85, 101, 115–18; unstable oscillations in, 105–7, 110–11, 113, 115; Works: Abnormal, 1, 30, 36, 83, 87, 114, 211n1, 212n7, 220n77, 238n15; The Birth of the Clinic, 16–17, 145; Collège de France lectures, 1, 30, 69, 211n1; Discipline and Punish, 33, 103, 160; History of Madness, 25–30; Le désordre des familles (with Farge), 86; The Order of Things, 16–17, 74, 78–79; “The Political Technology of Individuals,” 200–1n83; Psychiatric Power, 1, 30, 84–85, 87; The Punitive Society, 21, 145, 197n36; Security, Territory, and Population, 17–19, 24, 78–79, 87, 93–94; Society Must Be Defended, 18, 20, 72–73, 77, 88, 99, 102, 106–10, 114, 120, 224–25n6; See also The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (Foucault)
4 Months , 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu), 174–75
Fourteenth Amendment, 122
Frames of War (Butler), 9–10, 17, 144, 146, 149, 151–55, 156, 186
France: abortion law, 125, 159–64; colonialism, 98–100; Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, 133–35; globalist expansion, 33–34
Frank, Zippi Brand, 180–84, 189
French Penal Code (1810), 125
French Revolution, 21, 33, 76, 86, 133–34
Freud, Sigmund, 25, 28, 198n45
futures, 1, 17, 202–3n12; abortion as impediment, 4, 65, 153; counterteleology, 47; death of, 98–100; death penalty as impediment, 34–36; masturbation as impediment, 29, 31; racial, 60, 98; risk of harm to, 116–17. See also reproductive futurism
Futures of Reproduction (Mills), 158
gathering, principle of, 15, 27–28, 32, 71, 198n51
gay marriage rights, 40, 42, 180, 202n7
gay reproductive rights, 180–84, 246n76. See also queerness
gay rights politics, 40–42
gender exceptionalism, 187, 214n25
Gender Trouble (Butler), 148, 237nn10, 11, 241n37
genealogy, 28, 68, 155; hypergenealogy, 11, 185–87
genetic perfectionism, 157
genocide: abortion as, 4, 60, 129, 209n61; ethnic rape, 132, 225n9
Germany, abortion access, 124–25, 230n33
Gilligan, Carol, 11, 52, 144, 164–68, 243n52, 244n54
Giving an Account of Oneself (Butler), 148, 158, 170, 175–76, 185, 248n94
Google Baby (Frank), 180–84, 189, 244n60
governmentality, 3–4, 39, 65, 72, 90; Butler’s view, 150; children problematized, 93; excess, 108–9; intersection of race and sexuality, 69; new forms, 110; sex, management of, 74. See also power
grievability, 145, 149–50, 152, 154–56, 168–69; of fetus, 171–73, 244n58
Habeas Viscus (Weheliye), 9, 214n22, 214–15n26, 227–28n24
Halberstam, Jack, 57–58, 61, 210n64
Halley, Janet, 72
Halperin, David, 72
Haraway, Donna, 163, 240–41n35
Harwood, Gwen, 168–69
health, biopolitical concerns, 2, 4, 36, 51, 61–62, 66, 74, 77, 87, 98, 107
“heartbeat bans,” 123, 228n28, 228–29n29, 229nn30, 31
Herbert, Claude-Jacques, 79
heteronormative reproductive values, 3, 40, 176
heterosexuality, 69; queerness said to impede, 42, 45–46, 57–58
history, 16, 32; consecutive modes, 18–20;
History of Madness (Foucault), 25–30
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (Foucault), 1–2, 5, 19–20, 27–28, 106, 114; alliance model, 32; Butler’s view, 145; colonialism and race in, 68–69; La Croisade des Enfants, 39; parallel lives/readings, 72–75; procreative “hinge,” 76–78; procreative hypothesis, 75–76; reproductive futurism and, 61–63; “terminal forms” of sexuality, 71
homo sacer, 117–18, 127–28, 231nn44, 47; citizenship, 130–32; living dead humanity, 135. See also bare life
Homo Sacer (Agamben), 103, 118–20, 127–32
homonationalism, 39, 69–70, 98, 187, 214n25
Huffer, Lynne, 29
Hugo, Victor, 6, 33–34, 35, 37
humanization, 157
Hyde amendment, 154
hysteric, 36, 65–66, 71, 75, 92, 217–18n50
illegibility, 148, 159, 164, 168–70; abortion and, 164, 168, 176–78; reproductive rights and, 52–53, 59, 143
immune paradigm, 14, 39, 103, 104, 105; reproductive immunities, 111–18
impediment, figures of, 4, 31, 65–66; death penalty and, 34–36, 38; queer, 43–46, 52, 56, 59
In a Different Voice (Gilligan), 11, 52, 164–68
incarceration, 21
included exclusion, 132–33, 135, 140, 149
individuation, 82, 84–85, 92, 150
infanticide, 113
interpretive keys, 17, 105, 110, 111, 115
intersectionality, 66–70, 213n11, 249n99
Italian philosophy, 2, 74. See also Agamben, Giorgio; Esposito, Roberto
ius soli and ius sanguinis, 134
James, P. D., 49–52
Jenkins, Fiona, 156–57, 170–76, 238–39n20, 240n32
Johnson, Barbara, 144, 168, 243–44n53
Jones, Donna V., 72
Khanna, Ranjana, 10, 160, 229n32
kinship relations, 47–48, 202–3n12, 204n19, 246n76
Klein, Ezra, 42
Kligman, Gail, 154
knowledge, objects of, 16–18
Kohlberg, Lawrence, 164, 244n54
Koopman, Colin, 27
La matrice de la race (Dorlin), 99, 214n22
La Volonté de Savoir, The Will to Knowledge (Foucault). See The History of Sexuality, Volume I (Foucault)
language, vulnerability and, 147–48
Lanjuinais, Jean-Denis, 134
Le désordre des familles (Foucault and Farge), 86, 221–22n85
Le Doeuff, Michèle, 125, 162, 230n35
Left, discourse of life and, 146, 152
legibility of procreation, 45–46, 65. See also illegibility
Lemke, Thomas, 19, 195–96n25, 196n33
Lepore, Jill, 139
“lesbian movement,” 178
lettres de cachet, 86
life, 3, 74–75, 200n78; contingent formations, 15–16, 35, 66, 69, 74, 146, 149, 163, 187–88; emerges with biopolitics, 110–11, 117; “forestalled,” 105–6, 114–16; “not worth being lived,” 104, 118–19, 141–42, 149; produced by biopolitics, 7, 110–11; of progress, 34. See also bare life; ethical life
Life Always group, 4
Life and Words (Das), 9
living dead humanity, 135–37
Love, Heather, 57–58, 61, 210n64
Ma loi d ‘avenir (Démar), 54
Mad for Foucault (Huffer), 29
Malabou, Catherine, 16
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 79–81, 100, 214n40 217n46
Malthusian couple, 39, 64, 66, 80, 212–13n8
marriage, 79–81; gay marriage rights, 40, 42, 202n7
masturbation, 65–66; marsupial-like mother, 39, 63, 83; as mortal danger, 29–30; parents responsible for, 83–84; Rousseau’s view, 30–31
maternity/motherhood: breast-feeding, 35, 37, 84, 91, 93, 96, 218n55; childlessness as tragic fate, 47–48; citizenship and, 129–30; expert knowledges and, 76, 83, 85, 93–94; as fetish, 49–51; health of, 158; idealized, 45; nationalism associated with, 65, 99; problematized, 36, 39, 82–95; redoubled role, 85, 96, 100; rejection of, 53–54. See also women
Mbembe, Achille, 7, 9, 39, 103, 224n97
McWhorter, Ladelle, 5, 98, 213n15, 214n22, 218–19n59
Medicaid, 154
Memmi, Dominique, 159–62, 171, 173, 183, 245n65
Miller, Ruth A., 105, 140, 142
Mills, Catherine, 10, 130, 131, 155–58, 163, 172, 176, 230n39, 240n32
modernity, 15, 19–20, 110; biopolitics of, 132–33; reproductive, 133–35
Moheau, Jean-Baptiste, 93
moral agency, 51, 163, 186, 189–90, 240n32
moral duty, 80–81
moral thought, 57, 164–70, 244n54
mortality rates, 4, 16–17, 87, 93, 96
“The Mother” (Brooks), 168–69
Mottier, Véronique, 217–18n50
Mungiu, Cristian, 174–76
Muñoz, José, 10
murder, indirect forms, 21–23, 102–3, 118–19, 132–33; categories of vulnerable, 148–49; women exposed to, 100, 115–16, 137, 141–143, 154, 173–75, 207n44, 222–23n91
Murphy, Michelle, 100, 212n2, 217–18n50, 223n94
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 10
nationalism, 39, 50, 99–100, 205nn28, 30; feminist views, 54–55; homonationalism, 39, 69–70, 98, 187, 214n25
natural law, 81
Nazi camp, 119–20, 231n44, 231n45
Nazi state, 23, 88, 106–7, 112, 120, 195n24, 227–28n24
necropolitics/necropolitical, 7–8, 14, 65, 103, 212n2, 221n82
negativity, 40–41, 58, 203n16, 204nn17, 24, 210n64. See also queer negativity
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 241–42n40
No Future (Edelman), 11, 40–63; Child, figure of, 40–45, 49, 101, 211n72; Foucault, relationship with, 61–63; not antichild, but anti-Child, 44, 56; psychoanalytic orientation, 61–62
normalization, 19, 24, 69, 76, 87, 92, 94, 238n15
Of Grammatology (Derrida), 30
oikos, 130–31
Oksala, Johanna, 131
ontological tact, 11, 146, 163, 171–72, 183–84
optimization, 1, 2, 4, 23, 39; critical interrogation, 150; paradoxes, 107–8; thanatopolitical and, 95–96, 224n3. See also administration; biopolitics/biopolitical; governmentality
The Order of Things (Foucault), 16–17, 74, 78–79
panopticization, 19, 23, 61, 90
paradoxes, 60, 105–9, 116, 117, 120, 127, 138, 140, 148
parent, 36–38, 42, 50; Foucault averts sexual difference, 37–38, 83–84
“parent’s rights,” 50
penal order, 18
penetration metaphors, 20, 24, 31, 88–90, 110
personhood rights, 123, 230n33, 248–49n98
philanthropic movements, 96
Planned Parenthood, 60, 139, 209n60, 229n30
Plato, 113
The Policing of Families (Donzelot), 83, 85, 95–96, 221n81, 221–22n85
Politics of Friendship (Derrida), 33
Polizeiwissenschaft, 35, 77, 95, 200–1n83
Poovey, Mary, 123
population, 36, 200–1n83, 216n38; administration, 24; as biological collectivity, 17–18; bodies and, 66–70; confession and management of, 72–73; demographics, 20, 72, 76, 78, 93–94, 110, 121; duty to maximize health, 36; management, 149–50; masturbation saps vitality, 29, 31, 66; problematized, 100; procreation as necessary, 76–78; racialization and risk, 100–4; responsibility and, 78–85
post-Foucauldian theory, 2, 7, 9, 13–14, 103, 153
power, 7, 14, 147; body and, 179; decomposition of, 21–25; historically consecutive modes, 18–20; modes of, 1–2, 6–7, 22–23, 93, 118, 141, 160, 196–97n35, 224n97; patriarchal, 54, 131–32; resistance to, 178–80; segmentation of, 15, 21–25, 196–97n35; sovereign mode, 19–20, 85, 88–90, 97, 109, 110; techniques of, 15, 18–19, 24, 27, 85, 90, 93, 96. See also biopolitics/biopolitical; biopower
Power, Nina, 152
Precarious Life (Butler), 149–50, 156
precariousness, 7, 10, 17, 39, 104, 146, 187; abortion rights, 120–26, 137; Butler’s analysis, 146–51; fetus and, 151–59; maternal, 153–55, 157–58; “outside” clinic, 173–76; of women’s reproductive life, 155–56
pregnancy. See maternity/motherhood
present, 14, 15, 18–20; ages and epochs destabilize, 25–26; contemporary, 26–27; Derrida’s interrogation of Foucauldian, 24–28; fissured, 25–28; masturbatory, 31
problematization, 3, 27; of children, 93; of mother, 36, 39, 82–95; of women, 100–1
procreative hypothesis, 1, 75–76
productive power, 89–90
progress, 33–34
pseudo homo sacer, 127–28
pseudosovereignty, 4–6, 36, 104, 120, 127–28, 153
Psychiatric Power (Foucault), 1, 30, 84–85, 87
The Psychic Life of Power (Butler), 147–48
Puar, Jasbir, 7, 23, 39, 61, 187, 213n16, 214nn22, 25; Edelman, view of, 61, 62; Terrorist Assemblages, 66–70, 98
The Punitive Society (Foucault), 21, 145, 197n36
queer negativity, 40–41, 50, 210n64; antilife, 4, 42, 44–45, 70, 98, 100–1, 187, 208–9n58; antisociality, 4, 41, 45–46, 57–59; “us,” as fantasy beneficiary, 44–45, 51. See also negativity
queerness, 56; figural burden of, 43–44, 58; heterosexuality impeded by, 42, 45–46, 57–58; racialization and, 69–70. See also gay reproductive rights
racialization, 60, 62, 69–70, 98–100, 216n39, 225–26n13; bare life, 128–29; risk and reproduction, 100–4, 223n92
Rancière, Danielle, 221–22n85
Rapp, Rayna, 241n36
Reform Act, 1974 (Germany), 124
Remnants of Auschwitz (Agamben), 120, 227n24
repressive hypothesis, 1–2, 7, 66, 89, 95
reproduction, 3; decision making, 53, 121, 143, 153, 158–64, 167, 170–74, 177, 184–89; immune paradigm, 111–15; living dead humanity, 135–37; of race and race hierarchy, 68–69; as threat, 4, 17, 36, 38–43, 50–51, 100–2, 116–17, 127–29, 185. See also administration of life
reproductive futurism, 4, 39, 40–63, 97; abjection of “others,” 41, 43–44; biopolitics and, 61–63; burden shuffled to someone else, 58–59; calculability, 47–49, 55, 56, 59–61; denial of rights to queers and women, 42–43; different populations, 60; economic metaphors, 41, 48–49, 59; feminist views, 53–55; figural burden of queerness, 43–44, 58; imaginary Child of gay parenting, 42–43; imaginary continuity, 43–45; intelligibility, 46–49, 237n10; overpromising positive results, 54–57; Ponzi schemes, 40, 41, 49; reproductive rights discourse, 52–53; self-presence, 43–44; sinthomosexual, figure of, 11, 45–48; “us” as fantasy beneficiary, 44–45, 51. See also futures
reproductive rights, 139–41; illegibility and, 52–53, 59, 143. See also gay reproductive rights
reproductive rights politics, 36, 40–41, 50–51; as hypergenealogy, 185–87
Republican primary, 2011, 60
reserves: of proximity, 37–38; suspended, 11, 28–32, 37–38, 62, 65, 84, 115–18, 134, 186
resistance, 116, 128–29, 178–80; counterconduct, 189, 217–18n50, 223n94
responsibility: failed, 163–64, 177, 187–88; language of, 166–67
responsibilization, 3, 5, 39, 82, 115–16, 136; contingent formations, 66, 158–59, 176; fetus and, 157, 175–76; of pregnant women, 51, 186
right to have rights, 21
Roberts, Dorothy, 5
Roman legal system, 18, 20, 54, 131, 135
Rose, Nikolas, 72
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 30–31
Rozier, P-M., 83
Santorum, Rick, 40
Savage, Dan, 40
Scalia, Antonin, 42
Schmitt, Carl, 119
security, 3, 19, 23–24, 90, 106
Security, Territory, and Population (Foucault), 17–19, 24, 78–80, 93–94
Sedgwick, Eve, 72
segmentations of power, 15, 21–25, 196–97n35
sexual difference: Agamben neglects, 128–30, 131–32; biopolitical and, 37–38; death penalty as problem of, 8; Foucault averts, 37–38, 82–87, 217–18n50
sexuality: alliance and, 31–32, 88–90, 220n74; biopolitics and, 32–33; disciplinary control of, 24, 73; as formation of death in life, 28–29; as intersection, 66–70; penetration metaphors, 20, 24, 31, 88–90; “terminal forms,” 71; of text, 31, 32
sexuality studies, 2
Shalala, Donna, 41
Shared Responsibility Agreement, 243n50
Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph, 134
Simons, Jon, 217–18n50
sinthomosexual, 11, 45–48, 63, 203nn13, 204nn17, 23; Antigone, 46, 47–48; of feminism, 55–57
Smith, Adam, 79
social ontology, 146
socially dead, 148
Society Must Be Defended (Foucault), 18, 20, 23, 31, 68, 72–73, 77, 88, 96–97, 99, 102, 106–10, 117, 119–20, 224–25n6
sovereign mode, 19–20, 85, 88–90, 97, 109, 110
sovereign power of death, 8, 21–23, 195n24, 224n2; as privative, 102–3, 107
sovereignty, 3; biopolitical, relationship to, 19–20, 106–9, 116–18, 121, 141–43, 161; family space and, 85–87; Foucault and Agamben on, 118–20; phantasmatic, 33, 104, 117, 161–62, 164, 225n10, 226–27n18; weakened, 117–18; women’s power over reproductive life, 4–6, 121
spatial organizations, 18–19
state, control over bare life, 159–61
Stewart, Potter, 154
Stoler, Ann, 68, 98–99, 129, 205n27, 213n16
subjectivation, 145, 147–48, 155–59, 185; abjection and, 41, 43–44, 59, 149; desubjectivation, 3, 145, 156, 159, 185–86; of fetus, 155–56; unmaking, 120, 149, 155–56, 171, 173, 227n20
Subjects of Desire (Butler), 145, 150
subordination, 9, 147–48, 249n99; of mother, 84–86, 91–92
Supreme Court, 123
surrogacy, 179–84, 244n60, 246n85, 247n88
survival, 88; imaginary continuity, 43–45
suspended reserves, 11, 28–32, 37–38, 62, 65, 84, 115–18, 134, 150, 186
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 46
temporality, 14, 15. See also ages and epochs
Terrorist Assemblages (Puar), 66–70
thanatopolitical drift, 103–4
thanatopoliticization, 225n12; of “life,” 115; of reproduction and maternity, 36, 112–16
thanatopolitics, as term, 153
thanatopolitics/thanatopolitical, 7–8, 11, 65, 95–98, 105–43, 153, 185; as biopolitical, 102; dividing practices, 102; eightfold definition, 65, 102–4; fetus, figure of, 153; framing vignettes, 111–13; hypothesis, 5, 7; life “not worth being lived,” 104, 118–19, 141–42, 149; living dead humanity, 135; sovereign power and, 102–3; thresholds, 103, 114; woman, 140–41; women and collective futures, 36–37. See also biopolitics/biopolitical
theory, limits of, 6. See also suspended reserves
Thompson, Judith Jarvis, 245–46n68
threshold, 15, 17, 26, 31; mother as, 97, 223n92; reproduction as, 36, 114; thanatopolitical and, 103, 114
Tiny Tim figure, 43, 45, 48, 59
“To Do Justice to Freud” (Derrida), 28, 31, 37
transactional unities, 15, 16–18, 194nn11, 13
Tronto, Joan, 166
ultrasound imaging, 123, 157, 163, 177
urban planning, 23–24
“us,” as fantasy beneficiary, 44–45, 51
Veil law (France), 125
violence. See murder, indirect forms
viruses, unmanageable, 108, 109
von Justi, Johann, 77, 200–1n83
von Redecker, Eva, 240n28
Walled States (Brown), 117
Weheliye, Alex, 9, 72, 128, 214n22, 214–15n26, 227–28n24
Wheeler, Anna, 207n44
The Will to Knowledge (Foucault). See The History of Sexuality, Volume I (Foucault)
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 54–55, 56, 208n47
women: animal devotions, 56; citizenship and, 129–35; death associated with, 5, 6, 36, 50–51, 65, 97–98; death penalty, 6, 33–36; pretensions of interest in, 4–5; problematization of, 100–1; as pseudo homo sacer, 127–28; pseudosovereignty, 4–6, 36, 104, 120, 127–28, 153; queer figures, 45–46; redoubled roles, 85, 96, 100, 120, 121, 127; thanatopoliticized, 140–41; women-as-life-principle, 5, 6, 34, 36, 38, 153–54. See also mother; sinthomosexual