29 Jun
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.
24 May
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 [...]
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 [...]
o this is a tour of (some of) Jean-Luc Nancy’s writing on bodies. My aim in this tour is to find ways of writing about bodies and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). I’m hoping that the tangibilities Nancy describes - his own disintegrating body; the impenetrability of bodies, the intercorporeality of touch and his projected [...]
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