Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Security

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel addresses the rhetorical discourses, logics, and technologies of government producing and shaping contemporary debates about science’s role in improving humanity (biopolitics) and technologies’ roles in managing uncertainty, risk, and dangerousness (e.g., surveillance). The panel fundamentally concerns stabilization because the rhetorics and logics examined operate to produce the present through normalization and optimization on the one hand, and marginalization and enclosure on the other. Critical examination of these rhetorical discourses, logics and practices offers opportunity for change by deconstructing taken for granted assumptions and privileged hierarchical relationships.

Sub Unit

• Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division

Chair

• Majia Nadesan, Arizona State University West

Presenters

• Carey Candrian, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego

• Nathan Stormer, University of Maine

• Davi Johnson-Thornton, Southwestern University

Respondent

• John Wise, Arizona State University, West

Session Organizer

• Majia Nadesan, Arizona State University West