New material in our webpage

Today, we have started the 2016 course with a new meeting. We have planified next lectures, that it will be about Visual Research Methods (here a past read we made about Deleuze and Cinema). We have also talked about the task we are carrying out: Focus Groups with lay people in order to find out some points about biosecurity, biorisk, future services, and big data. 

Another important issue is the (at last!) the creation of the POBICS Academia.edu webpage. Until now, we have used profiles of our staff, but we thought it was important because we have the need of gathering the whole of papers (published) and our draft and pre-prints papers. For now, you can check it and discuss them with us in this web page: POBICS academia.edu profile

In this vein, our webpage has been updated with all the links of this papers, our academia.edu profile and new content. You can check it here: POBICS web. Remember you can subscribe to our web in the main page, and also you can read our blog there. We are publishing 2-3 posts every week, and we are pleased to invite some researchers in order to exchange ideas and to write in our blog. 

So, if you are interested, share it and let us know what's your opinion!

Photo Credit: Simon Booth-Lucking

Our current events

After a busy weekend, we come back with a new post for Anthropology of the Bios. In this case, we want to "brush up" some news and events related with the present activity of our research team:

• Firstly, we are ending the reading of the two books published by Cactus editorial, "El Saber" and "El Poder", the two first quarters of the Deleuze's course about Foucault in 1985 and 1986. We have talked about statements, the visible and the enunciable, power relations, the superman-form (or overman-form)... and now we are reading two complementary texts by Agamben and Deleuze. We are also waiting for the third book, called "El Deseo" (the Desire) where Deleuze ends the dimension's path and thus, we can completely understand the Deleuze's vision about Foucault.

• In the second place, we are ending our first book, called "Biosecurity and Biopolitics in the 21th Century". Altough you can check its content in the highlighted post, it is possible we have some surprises prepared when it would be published (an important collaboration perhaps?... we'll keep reporting.

• In addition to our weekly seminary meetings, we are working hard in some new papers and ideas (biocapitalism, biovigilant citizenship, a quite interesting discussion via Research Gate about Early Warning System and lay people...). You are invited to collaborate or express your opinion about it. 

• Recently, we have also "refresh" and published our webpage, POBICS (Portraits of Bios in Contemporary Societies), a place where you will find several information about us, our current work, upcoming seminaries and meetings, etc. You can also visit of Facebook-page and our Twitter account (@pobics). The rest of our staff will publish materials and contributions in our blog very soon. 

• Last month, in our university (Autonomous University of Barcelona) was held the Second Congress of Critical Social Psychology, and we presented some partial results of our work. You can view the summary of the first day here, and one of our communications here.

And that is all for now. This thursday we will publish the last summary of our seminary about the Deleuzian's reading of Foucault. Next week, we will talk about a new concept: Planetary Boundaries, a concept we think that fits perfectly with some of our ideas. 

Photo Credit: POBICS brand. Copyleft image found in the web.

Welcome to our webpage!

First, I want to thank everyone who yesterday participated in the question I posed in ResearchGate, I hope more people participate and help to enrich de discussion, I am sure your answers would like everybody, particularly to our research group. 

The post of today is about one issue we was talking the last week. Is about one project we had in mind since the last spring, but for several reasons, we cannot take it off till this week. This project is the construction of a webpage where we can upload our works, reflections, and thus, release our field of knowledge but everyone interested in it.

Although the website is still under construction, you can visit it here and take a look to the main sections and if you want, give us some feedback about it. His name is "Portraits of Bios in the 21th Century-POBI21" (the name is also provisional), and we want to build some forums of discussion about biosurveillance and anthropology, social implications of this realm of the science and technology...

Thumbnail of POBI21

Webpage is organized in six sections: home, about, team, documents, our researches and events. Home is only the greeting and the ways of contact with us (Facebook and Twitter will be available soon). About is the section where we present our aim and our theoretical framework. Then, in team, you can check our personal bios as well as log in to our Academia.edu profiles. The main section is documents, splitted in Publications (papers and other academic outcomes), Working Papers (what are we doing now) and Seminary Summaries (some abstracts about our open seminaries). Our researches is still under construction, but soon you will find the topics we are working and other stuff. Finally, in events, you will see the next congress, meetings, seminaries, etc. where you can find some about our work.

The website is also created in order to link other research groups interested in our topics, and to enlarge the contacts for a later collaborations with people of worldwide. 

We will be publish several events where we will participate (not necessarily organized by us) and the meetings with public assistance (as seminaries where we will read some papers or books). We will be refreshing this section periodically, so I recommend checking it regularly!

This is the webpage: Portraits of Bios in the 21th Century

Photo Credit: Personal photo