Category: biopolitics

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 [...]
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 [...]
24 May

Preoccupied Biopoliticals 1

Is 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: biopolitics

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 [...]
17 Feb

Normalisation II

anguilhem continuing from precisely where the last left off:
14 Feb

Normalisation

rom Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological:
20 Jan

Selfish Preconceptive Parents

meant to write about Babel this evening as it haunts me and s0metim3s’ post brought it back. But Alice Dreger writes about the ashley treatment which is all the outrage at the moment. And she holds back any invective to draw out the way parental decision making is continually recoded along an [...]