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"The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. This includes discussions of the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Roberto Esposito, and Antonio Negri. In the second part of the book, Mills discusses various topics across the categories of politics, life and subjectivity. These include questions of sovereignty and governmentality, violence, rights, technology, reproduction, race, and sexual difference. This book will be an indispensable guide for those wishing to gain an understanding of the central theories and issues in biopolitical studies. For those already working with the concept of biopolitics, it provides challenging and provocative insights and argues for a ground-breaking reorientation of the field."--Provided by publisher.

Abstract
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Life as the Basis of Politics -- 2. Life as an Object of Politics -- 3. The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault -- 4. Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben -- 5. Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 6. The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics -- 7. The End and Reinvention of Nature -- 8. Vital Politics and Bioeconomy -- 9. Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

In this article, the authors engage with three emerging debates germane to contemporary biopolitics: (a) How do we advance the critical interrogation of the biopolitics of human movement? (b) How and in what ways might we "move" about (and ideally against) regimes and systems of biopolitical subjectivity? and (c) How might "moving" methods of writing, representation, and performance bring light to contemporary biopolitical struggles, contestations, and power relations?

In this bibliographic essay, we continue our annual updating of the biopolitics literature (see Somit et al., 1980; Peterson, Somit, and Slagter, 1982; Peterson, Somit, and Brown, 1983). We have identified 81 items appearing in 1983 (down a bit from last year's total of 93): 2 books (Corning, 1983b; Flohr and Tbnnesmann, 1983a), 22 full articles published in journals, 18 chapters in books (excluding reprints of previously published materials), 25 conference presentations, 4 master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and 10 commentaries, review essays, etc. It seems worth noting that 12 of the 80 works appearing in 1983 were published in the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Politics and the Life Sciences.

This essay represents a continuing update of the biopolitics bibliography (see Somit et aI., 1980; Peterson et al., 1982). We have recorded 93 items in our enumeration of biopolitical works which appeared in 1982. In this total are 1 book, 3 master's theses or doctoral dissertations, 30 published articles, monographs, or chapters in books, 49 conference papers, and 10 short commentaries (book reviews are not included in our tally).

Giorgio Agamben examines biopolitics from a historical perspective dating back to Ancient Greece and, unlike Foucoult, considers the violence and oppression of the sovereign power as a policy that develops strategies that legitimize it. It is also possible to see how the authoritative includes the biological existence of man in his own politics and the dilemmas created by this, in the tragedies that frequently express the conflict between legal-political life and natural life. Among the three great tragedian writers, Euripides provides an opportunity to read through contemporary political relations in that he writes realistic and extraordinary works in terms of both content and form, and uses an unsettling and critical style instead of suggesting moderation. This study investigates the reflections of biopolitics in Ancient Greek tragedies in order to expand the field of political thought in tragedies and to make anachronistic aspects of biopolitics visible, and tries to find the equivalent of Agamben's determinations on biopolitics in Euripides's Bacchas. Bacchas, like Sophocles' Antigone, place the unjust domination of state law over bare life and the violence mechanism of the sovereign power in the tense conflict between the natural order and the social order. With such a reading, Pentheus and Dionysus assume the semantic counterpart of the dominant power and homo sacer figure and 'Bios' and 'Zoe'.