Monthly Archives: June 2007

29 Jun

As many worlds as it takes to make a world

I’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 & Emergency

Noel 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:Carrier

So 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 Health

Last 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 Medicine

A 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 [...]