pparently torture gets politicised ‘because of very real stories and events.’
The moral issues of representation come down to quantity and quality.
The executive producer of 24 decides to tone it down because:
What was once an extraordinary or exceptional moment is starting to feel a little trite. The idea of physical coercion or torture is no longer a novelty or surprise.
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anguilhem continuing from precisely where the last left off:
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In anthropological experience a norm cannot be original. Rule begins to be rule only in making rules and this function of correction arises from infraction itself. A golden age, a paradise, are the mythical representations of an existence which intially meets its demands, of a mode [...]
ancy 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 [...]