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GUAN Shantong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2024.01.006
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
In the Empire Series, Hardt and Negri attempt to develop biopolitical critique to contemporary capitalist society. Hardt and Negri develop their own biopolitical critique based on their understanding of Foucauldian biopolitics. In the meantime, many arguments of biopolitical critique come precisely from Marx’s critique of political economy. Identifying biopolitical production as the hegemonic paradigm of contemporary capitalist production, Hardt and Negri accomplish the transition from the critique of political economy to biopolitical critique. However, such assertion does not mean a major rupture in the relation between the critique of political economy and biopolitical critique. On the contrary, it only implies an intertwined relationship between them. Moreover, if regarding Foucault’s discussion about political economy and biopolitics as a medium, then the conclusion can be made: There are overlaps between biopolitical critique and the critique of political economy, and the source of biopolitical critique can also be traced directly back to Marx.
biopolitical critique, critique of political economy, Marx, Foucault
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