Melinda Cooper

Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
A26 - R.C. Mills
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
email:
phone: +61 2 9351 2361
fax: +61 2 9351 3918

Melinda Cooper graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2001 with a doctorate focusing on recent developments in French and Italian political theory. She has published widely in the fields of science and technology studies, biopolitics and political theory. Current interests include: biopolitics and biosecurity; new theories of labour; economic sociology and financialization; revolutionary conservatism and religious revival; critical race and gender studies; philosophies and politics of the 'event'.

• BA (Honours), First Class Honours and University Medal, Department of French Studies, University of Sydney, 1992.
• DEA (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies), Mention Très Bien (High Distinction), Département d'Études féminines/Département de Sociologie, University of Paris VIII, 1994.
• Doctorate, Mention Très Bien (High Distinction), Département d'Études féminines/Département de Sociologie, University of Paris VIII, 2001. Thesis 'Nouvelle naissance, nouvelle alliance: La question de la genese dans la philosophie de Deleuze et Guattari'

Monograph
Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era, Washington University Press, 2008.

Refereed Articles
'Orientalism in the Mirror: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Westernism', Theory, Culture and Society (Special Section on Post-secular Feminism, edited by Rosi Braidotti), forthcoming 2008.

'The Biopolitics of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women's Clinical Labour' co-authored with Catherine Waldby, forthcoming in Australian Feminist Studies, 23(55), 2008.

'Life, Autopoiesis, Debt: Inventing the Bioeconomy', Distinktion: Journal of Scandanavian Social Theory, May 2007 (Special Bioeconomics Issue), pp. 25-43.

'Stem Cell Science in India: Emerging Economies and the Politics of Globalization', co-authored with Brian Salter, Amanda Dickins, Valentina Cardo Regenerative Medicine, January 2007, vol 2, no. 1, pp. 75-89.

'The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right and the Culture of Life', Postmodern Culture (PMC), 17.1, Fall, 2006.

'China and the Global Stem Cell Bioeconomy: An Emerging Political Strategy?', Regenerative Medicine, co-authored with Professor Brian Salter and Amanda Dickins, 1(5), 2006, pp. 671-683.

'Preempting Emergence: The Biological Turn of the War on Terror', Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 23.4, July 2006, pp. 113-135.

'Resuscitations: Stem Cells and the Crisis of Old Age', Body and Society, Volume 12(1), January 2006, pp. 1-23.

'Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cells and the Science of Monstrosity', Medical Humanities, Volume 30 (1), June 2004, pp. 12-22.

'On the Brink: From Mutual Deterrence to Uncontrollable War', Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Issue 4, September 2004, pp. 2-18.

'Insecure Times, Tough Decisions: The Nomos of Neo-Liberalism', Alternatives, Global, Local, Political, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 2004, pp. 515-534.

'Rediscovering the Immortal Hydra: Stem Cells and the Question of Epigenesis', Configurations:A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology, December 2003, pp. 1-26.

'Vitesses de l'image, puissances de la pensée: la philosophie épicurienne revue par Deleuze et Guattari', French Studies: A Quarterly Review (Oxford), Volume LVI, No. 1, January 2002, pp. 45-60.

'The Living and the Dead: Variations on De Anima', Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Volume 7, No. 3, December 2002, pp. 81-104.
'Transgenic Life: Controlling Mutation' Theory and Event, Volume 5: 3, August 2001.

'Le lieu de l'homme: la topologie de la différence sexuelle chez Jacques Lacan', Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume XXXIV, No. 1, 1997.

Book Chapters
'Studies in Monstrosity: Mary Shelley's "Anomalous Creation" and the French-English tradition of Teratology', in Frankenstein's Science, the Knowledge of Traditions of Romantic Culture, 1780-1830, eds. Jane Goodall and Christa Knellwolf, Ashgate Press, 2008.

'Marx beyond Marx: A World Beyond and Outside Measure', in Reading Negri, ed. Pierre Lamarche, Open Court Press, 2009, forthcoming.

'The Silent Scream: Agamben and the Politics of the Unborn', in Life and Law after Deleuze, ed. Claire Colebrook and Rosi Braidotti, Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Coordination of special journal issue
Special Biopolitics issue of refereed electronic journal, Journal Machine, edited and prefaced by myself, Andrew Goffey (Middlesex University, UK) and Anna Munster (University of New South Wales), 2005.

Book Reviews
Review: Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic. By John Protevi, French Studies: A Quarterly Review (Oxford), Volume LVI, No. 4, October 2002.