Journal
HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 55-82Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0952695105059306
Keywords
biopolitics; neurosciences; self; stem cells; subjectivity
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In this article, we argue that contemporary biomedicine is shaped by two, seemingly incommensurable, organizational logics, the 'regime of truth' and the 'regime of hope'. We articulate their features by drawing on debates sparked by the recent clinical trial of a new approach to the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. We also argue that the 'self' is configured in the very same process whereby these two organizational logics interlock and become mutually dependent, so that the 'self' might be said to be the effect of a 'parasitic' relationship between the regimes of 'truth' and 'hope'. We then bring these two arguments to bear on the contrasting views of the relationship between embodiment and political subjectivity articulated by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, on the one hand, and Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose, on the other hand.
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