Category: immunities

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 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 [...]
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 [...]