%0 Journal Article
%T Odpowiadając współczesności. Analityka biopolityki i biowładzy
%A Szczęch, Jakub
%J Prace Etnograficzne
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/22999558.PE.16.001.6012
%N Tom 44, Numer 2
%P 93-106
%K biopolitics, biopower,  contemporary, “life itself”, biomedicine.
%@ 0083-4327
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/odpowiadajac-wspolczesnosci-analityka-biopolityki-i-biowladzy
%X 
	Answering the Contemporary. Analytics of Biopolitics and Biopower

	In this article I try to characterize biopower and biopolitics and show how these conceps can be useful in descripction and analyse of selected socio-cultural phenomena of the contemporary. I start from the terminological confusion that can arise here because of previous functioning of biopower and biopolitics in the scientific and the political discours. Then I move on to present the ideas of Michel Foucault, who created, somehow misty and sketchy, but still inspiring theoretical background based on these two concepts. Neo-Foucauldian researches (Paul Rabinow, Nikolas Rose, Thomas Lemke, Majia Holmer Nadesan, Mitchell Dean) took the work on developing this heritage.