Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of `authority'. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that `experience of life' has become equated with `objectivity' in contemporary culture and has thus become a primary basis of authority. `Biopolitical' or `experiential' authority can be generated...