Drawing on Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of ‘affirmative biopolitics’, this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annihilation of the creatures to the more pragmatic position of learning how to live with them through an orientation toward ‘shared vulnerability’. This case study raises interesting questions for biopolitical theory: how can we conceive of affirmative biopolitics when the limitations of species being are evident, and is it possible to conceive of a multi or even interspecies munus or obligation?

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Esposito在多物种家庭中的肯定性生物政治

本文借鉴罗伯托·埃斯波西托（Roberto Esposito）对“肯定性生物政治”的概念，研究了Govanhill格拉斯哥附近臭虫与人类之间的关系。通过对人种志领域笔记的分析以及对居住在该地区的人们的采访，本文追溯了他们第一次相遇的经历。这种经历的轨迹表明，从通过彻底消灭生物来免疫家园的愿望转变为通过“共享脆弱性”的方向学习如何与他们生活在一起的更为务实的立场。这个案例研究为生物政治理论提出了有趣的问题：当物种的局限性显而易见时，我们如何构想平权生物政治，并且有可能构想出多种甚至种间的种属或义务？