Johan Jönsson PhD student
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Name and title: Johan JönssonPhD student
Workplace: Department of Culture and Aesthetics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room A308Frescativägen 22B-26
Postal address Institutionen för kultur och estetik106 91 Stockholm
About me
PhD student in history of ideas, affiliated with the Doctoral school in the History of Political Thought.
Apart from history of ideas, my academic background stems mainly from philosophy and a mastersdegree in Critical Studies.
I teach both on first- (undergraduate) and second-level (postgraduate). Among these, The traditions of critical thinking and Foucault - historical and critical perspectives.
My research project—in its current conceptualization—aims to advance the theoretical discussions of biopolitics and its mutations, by way of discussing death-related practices in 20th and 21th century Sweden. That is, instead of regurgitating prominent thinkers of biopolitics or its offsprings in an exegetical manner, the focus of the project is rather to take their approach further by way of a historical material. Thus, the past is used genealogically to, ultimately, intervene in the present.
Previous areas of focus for me have been the changing of death-declaring practices—i.e. excluding previously living and rights-bearing bodies from the realm of rights through death—in relation to desirable transplantations from said body, where as of now I’m delving into death-help and euthanasia: on the one hand, to historize a contemporary, heated debate—potentially revealing a set of presuppositions, paving way for different perspectives—, on the other hand to discern biopolitical governance and its subjectivations of optimization with regards to its seemingly opposite end: the (desired) death of the biopolitical subject.
Central areas of interests among others, apart from the ones outlined above, are critical theory, health, suicide, control, economic rationality.