Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire says about the book "Thomas Lemke traces with beautiful clarity the genealogy of the concept of biopolitics.

[3] He has published and edited more than 15 books and his works have been translated into Danish, Dutch, English, Korean, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish.

His work has been frequently cited in scholarly and public debates and he regularly contributes to the intellectual discourse in Germany in major newspapers and on national radio and television.

In 2014, Lemke was awarded an opus magnum fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation for his book project "The Government of Things.

[4] In 2018, he received a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant awarded by the European Research Council for his project CRYOSOCIETIES.