About the Book:Notes on Contributors Introduction Life Struggles: War, Disciplinary Power and Biopolitics–J.Reid ‘Power’s ode to itself’: History, Power and Poetry in the Post-Waterloo Writing of Hazlitt, Byron and Shelley: S.Bainbridge Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker–A.Houen Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology–J.Marks Biopower, Biological Racism and Eugenics–C.Hanson Michel Foucault: Defending Society and the Idea of Race–D.Macey War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy–L.Hartley Necropolitics–A.Mbembe A Geopolitical Blindspot in Foucault’s Thought: Biopolitics, Torture and Indefinite Detention in the Colonial World–S.Morton ‘Manual for a Raid’ and ‘Henslowe’s Diary’: Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document–R.Fensome Foucault, Auden and two New York Septembers–S.Bygrave Notes Index