As the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault defined the concept, 'biopolitics' is the extension of state control over both the physical and political bodies of a population. Poetic Biopolitics is a positive attempt to explain and show how the often destructive effects and affects of biopolitical power structures can be deconstructed not only critically but poetically in the arts and humanities: in architecture, art, literature, modern languages, performance studies, film and philosophy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the contemporary global crisis of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing. Structured in three parts - biopolitical bodies and imaginaries, voices and bodies, and social and environmental turbulence - this innovative book meshes performative and visual poetics with critical theory and feminist philosophy. It examines the complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word.

Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts includes a chapter with lyrics, writings and drawings by The Gluts.

Spaghetti Carbonorama
Carbon trading
Environmental fading
Buy rights to pollute
Don't think about fallout
A new economic power
Over the poor towers
Carbon, land, air and sea
Offsetting electricity

Leave oil and gas underground
Where it was found
Halt carbon addiction
Reshape predictions
The time to change has nearly gone
Renewable is the only one
The final sources of energy
Solar, wind, tidal, Ecotricity