Anti-Ageing Cultures, Biopolitics and Globalisation

Brett Neilson

doi:10.5130/csr.v12i2.2341

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v12i2.2341

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Cultural research, cultural studies, research, biopolitics, globalisation, aging, anti-aging, medicine

Brett Neilson

University of Western Sydney

Abstract

In March 2004, the author attended the Inaugural International Conference on Longevity at the Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre in Darling Harbour. As a cultural researcher interested in the interactions between demographic shifts, capitalist globalisation and changing forms of political power, the prospect of a direct encounter with the debates and practices surrounding the burgeoning field of anti-ageing medicine promised a means to observe the complex cultural dynamics of population ageing at play. This article explores the discord the atuhor witnessed; a quarrel that, despite the march of technological advance, attests the ongoing conflict in the nexus where politics meets life.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2006): Engagements

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Cultural Research (Peer Reviewed)

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Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney

BRETT NEILSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also a member of the Centre for Cultural Research. He is the author of Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle … and Other Tales of Counterglobalization, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

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