POBICS has reached 100 post!

With the last post we published last week, POBICS has reached our hundredth post. This number arrives after one year and a half, time enough to post several joys and sorrows, posts of all kinds: from seminaries to achievings like our current project; from our published papers to reports about our readings; from works in progress to thoughts and discussions.

In this chance, we only want to acknowledge to all of our readers, suscriptors, buddies and all researchers your contributions along this first 100 posts. 

Now that the present course is about to end, we will continue posting our seminaries (open and free to you!), papers and all kind of interesting news for you (next 4S/EASST congress will be an important chance!). We wait for you in our webpage (http://pobics.wix.com/pobics) and also in our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pobi21/?ref=ts&fref=ts.

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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. 

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