29 Jun
As many worlds as it takes to make a worldI’m just in the tidy up phase of marking. It’s a thin state, like butter scraped over too much bread. It leaves me nostalgic for the dreamt figures of childhood, Hollywood cinema and processed, probably non-vegan, food.
22 Jun
Norm & EmergencyNoel Pearson, allegedly, made it legitimate for white politicians to finally take some action on the national emergency of Indigenous child abuse. His (or the Cape York Institute’s) massive proposal [pdf] for controversial, welfare “reform” experiments as a solution to problems in remote Indigenous communities came after the Little Children are Sacred report [pdf] and [...]
06 Jun
Contagion:CarrierSo I’m writing about the politics of contagion and 28 Weeks Later, which I saw after having encountered foucaultisdead’s viral reading of the film. The sensibility is, then, of a reading already gathered by FID’s. 28 Weeks Later illustrates a logic of viral containment that targets the host. It secures territory against people. This logic of [...]
04 Jun
Preoccupied Biopoliticals 3: The Faculty of HealthLast time on Preoccupied Biopoliticals: Kant distinguishes medicine, from the other higher faculties of law and theology, as the most autonomous from sovereignty because its concern is nature. Still, Kant describes a threefold relation between the study of medicine and the state, in each case the medium of relation is the people or public. Firstly, [...]
04 Jun
Preoccupied Biopoliticals 2: Kant on the Faculty of MedicineA while back Angela Mitropoulos in her contribution to the edu-factory discussion used a portion of Kant I hadn’t come across before. The Conflict of the Faculties [pdf] is an account of the university, as composed of 3 higher faculties - in [...]
24 May
Preoccupied Biopoliticals 1Is it possible to think a politics of health, that includes the child yet to be born, that is not biopolitical? Nancy in his note on biopolitics suggests that Foucault’s historical thesis on the birth of biopolitics from the 18th century requires: a more precise examination of what the biopolitical preoccupations were before the modern era [...]
20 May
The somatic J-L Nancy: biopoliticsancy in his recently translated (into English) work, La création du monde ou la mondialisation, has a note on the term biopolitics. The note is reproduced in full below. This note in 3 pages, with its own set of notes, at first occasions a few points of clarity, a direction of further research and then [...]