Introduction
Part I: RESISTANCE AND THE POLITICS OF AUTONOMY: FOUCAULT’S UNYIELDING DISCOURSES
1.1 The Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment Model of Resistance
1.2 Foucauldian Self-Help? Spirituality and Biopolitics in the 21st Century
Part II. RESISTANT BODIES AND AFFECTS¿
2.1 The Politics of Aphrodisia and the Gay Mode of Life
2.2 Aesthetic Counter-Conduct
2.3 Aesthetic and Queer Resistance: Intersections and Further Questions
Part III. AFFIRMATIVE BIOPOLITICS AND RESISTANCE
3.1 From Cynicism to Ars Erotica
3.2 Foucault and Zen: Spirituality, Resistance and Affirmative Biopolitics
Conclusion
Biography
Lauri Siisiainen is a University Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is interested in political theory and political philosophy (especially continental), as well as in issues of power, government/governmentality, biopolitics and resistance more broadly. He has published extensively on these areas both in English and in Finnish.
