Biopolitics in the political thought of classical Greece / Mika Ojakangas -- The government of a multitude': Hobbes on political subjectification / Marco Piasentier and Davide Tarizzo -- Nietzsche and biopolitics: four readings of Nietzsche as a biopolitical thinker / Vanessa Lemm -- Biopolitics before Foucault: on Benjamin's critique of bare life and Agamben's theological genealogy of the 'apparatus' / Bostjan Nedoh -- Foucault, biopolitics and aesthetics / Lauri Siisiäinen -- Biopolitics and socialism: Foucault, Agamben, Esposito / Sergei Prozorov -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on 'postmodern biopolitics' / Thomas Lemke -- Community, life, and subjectivity in Italian biopolitics / Miguel Vatter -- Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and the ' nomos ' of contemporary political life / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Gender equality as bioeconomic governmentality in a neoliberal EU / Jemima Repo -- Nature saved: from the katechontic to the eschatological in contemporary liberal biopolitics / Simona Rentea -- Cognitive capitalism and the governance of the prefrontal cortex / Warren Neidich -- Bodies, populations, citizens: the biopolitics of African environmentalism / Carl Death -- The biopolitics of European border security / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Biopolitics of the global governance of HIV/AIDS / Jaakko Ailio -- The biopolitics of asylum law in the United States / Ariadna Estévez -- Beyond biopolitics: struggles over nature / Lara Montesinos Coleman and Doerthe Rosenow -- Biopolitics and human reproduction / Catherine Mills -- Human life between biology and law in Germany / Ingrid Metzler -- Genopolitics: behavioural genetics and the end of politics / Martin G. Weiss -- Conclusion: Whither biopolitics? Current tendencies and directions of future research / Sergei Prozorov.