The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia and Bodies

Taking the biomediated body to be a historically specific mode of organization of material forces, invested by capital into being, as well as elaborated through various technoscientific discourses, the article traces these investments and the discursive productions of the biomediated body, linking it to an ongoing reconfiguration of governance and economy. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright 2008.]