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Resilient Biopolitics and Neocybernetics Resilient Biopolitics and Neocybernetics
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Probiotic Ecologies and Vital Systems Security Probiotic Ecologies and Vital Systems Security
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Panarchic Government: Care in the Age of the Anthropocene Panarchic Government: Care in the Age of the Anthropocene
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8 Environmentality: Mapping Contemporary Political Topographies
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Published:September 2021
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Abstract
Chapter 8 presents Foucault’s concept of environmentality as a way of capturing a new constellation of power in which modes of government seek to modulate and control the social, ecological, and technological conditions of life. The chapter discusses distinctive elements of environmental modes of government. I analyze the rise of the resilience discourse and a neo-cybernetic regime of control that problematize conventional notions of stability to exploit and foster differences and deviances. Next, I attend to new—“probiotic” (Lorimer)—modes of intervention that seek to govern through “nature” rather than against it and the emergence of “vital systems security” (Collier and Lakoff). Like classical biopolitics, the latter concept seeks to foster the welfare and the health of populations, but it does so by addressing a new object: material infrastructures, functions, and services deemed to be indispensable for collective life today. Extending Foucault’s notion of pastoral power, the last part of the chapter engages with the idea of “panarchy” (Holling et al.), which seeks to grasp the dynamics of creation and destruction in adaptation cycles of complex systems, enacting a normative grammar that is informed by logics of resilience and converts ethical responsibility into a technical responsiveness to future catastrophic events.
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