#biopolitics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biopolitics, aggregated by home.social.
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" There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."Leonard Cohen,1992, Anthem song
“He was just somebody who fell through all the cracks..."
A young man who came to Australia to study computer science died in the bushes near the bustling tunnel entrance to Sydney’s St James station. "Roughly 100,000 people went in or out of St James station during the time ..."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb
#biopolitics #Sydney #education #housing #visas #homelessness #VulnerableHomelessness #precarity #cracks #SystemicFailures -
"One for mum, one for dad, and one for the war" ?
“Sometimes it looks like when the right side of politics says that people should have more children … they’re really saying that we should have more white babies.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/27/pronatalism-push-more-babies-around-world-ntwnfb#reproduction #children #British #Australia #FarRight #FamilyPlanningSupplyChains #GlobalFertilityChains #biopolitics
Image: Pram parking inside a restaurant
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Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithmsWhen automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics
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Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-geneticsGene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_CollinsNazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics -
Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-geneticsGene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_CollinsNazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics -
Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-geneticsGene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_CollinsNazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics -
Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-geneticsGene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_CollinsNazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics -
Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-geneticsGene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_CollinsNazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics -
OnlineFirst - "Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of wildlife conservation in Britain" by Filipa Soares and Jamie Lorimer:
#rewilding #conservation #temporality #biopolitics #criptheory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251375005
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OnlineFirst - "Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of wildlife conservation in Britain" by Filipa Soares and Jamie Lorimer:
#rewilding #conservation #temporality #biopolitics #criptheory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251375005
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OnlineFirst - "Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of wildlife conservation in Britain" by Filipa Soares and Jamie Lorimer:
#rewilding #conservation #temporality #biopolitics #criptheory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251375005
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OnlineFirst - "Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of wildlife conservation in Britain" by Filipa Soares and Jamie Lorimer:
#rewilding #conservation #temporality #biopolitics #criptheory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251375005
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OnlineFirst - "Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of wildlife conservation in Britain" by Filipa Soares and Jamie Lorimer:
#rewilding #conservation #temporality #biopolitics #criptheory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251375005
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Housing - YIMBYs, NIMBYs and mass evictions at gunpoint
Lily Sánchez, You’re Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/youre-not-angry-enough-about-homelessness-in-america"We need to ensure we’re building homes, not investment portfolios."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-13/yimby-nimby-housing-crisis-battle-for-your-backyard/105510984Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/13/great-job-good-education-no-home-is-australias-bloated-property-market-destroying-the-middle-class
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#housing #unhoused #sprawl #affordability #AffordableHousing #wages #speculation #rentierism #mobility #relocation #cars #Carparks #warehousing #camp #nomos #biopolitics #NIMBY #YIMBY #SettlerSociety -
Nature's Health Is Human Health: A Critical Analysis of WHO's Hypocrisy in the Ecological Crisis
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5327497
#WHO #OneHealth #PoliticalEcology #NatureRights #DiscourseAnalysis #NeoliberalHealthGovernance #PostcolonialEpistemology #Biopolitics #EcologicalImperialism #GlobalHealth #CriticalTheory #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthPolitics #EcologicalDiscourse #DecolonialThought #PowerStructures #HealthInequality #Capitalocene #EnvironmentalGovernance #KnowledgeSystems -
Nature's Health Is Human Health: A Critical Analysis of WHO's Hypocrisy in the Ecological Crisis
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5327497
#WHO #OneHealth #PoliticalEcology #NatureRights #DiscourseAnalysis #NeoliberalHealthGovernance #PostcolonialEpistemology #Biopolitics #EcologicalImperialism #GlobalHealth #CriticalTheory #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthPolitics #EcologicalDiscourse #DecolonialThought #PowerStructures #HealthInequality #Capitalocene #EnvironmentalGovernance #KnowledgeSystems -
@RainerMuehlhoff @alineblankertz Digital Biocracy and Parallel States: New Mechanisms of Exploitation in the Era of Genetic Conquest @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5329770
#DigitalBiocracy #ParallelStates #Biopolitics #GeneticData #GlobalHealthGovernance #EpistemicJustice #Neoliberalism #Philanthrocapitalism -
A truth-telling exhibition
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience"Our artwork and culture is somehow revered on the international stage and high enough for an exchange at that level, but yet, we're the most incarcerated people on the planet.”
"Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have more than doubled, and deaths in custody have continued to rise."
"It's a huge stain on this nation...White Australia's support is crucial."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/blak-in-justice-exhibition-heide-museum-torch-project/105356854
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #violence #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #biopolitics #necropolitics #TruthTelling #art -
📖 Num artigo publicado na revista Revelar, Leonor Sá analisa o papel do retrato judiciário em termos filosóficos e como instrumento biopolítico de poder na segunda metade do século XIX e como este tipo de retrato (ou #mugshot) acabou por fascinar grandes artistas plásticos e o imaginário público.
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/RL/article/view/14504
#Histodons #Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #CulturalStudies #Biopolitics #Fotografia #HistóriaDaFotografia #Biopolítica #RetratoJudiciário
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Guest article by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: “A critical #reflection on the interface between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the #age of #biopower”
We both share a fondness for #discourse analysis and the #concept of power by #Michel #Foucault.
I was interested in this topic because for me it sheds a whole new light on the questions of #ethics for #artificial #intelligence.More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/01/bioethik-und-biopolitik-im-zeitalter-der-biomacht/
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"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
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• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
#progress #appropriation #enclosures #landGrab #economics #property #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #anthropology #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #domination #beliefs #manufacturingConsent #whiteSupremacy #India #colonialism #BritishRule #BritishIndia #BritishEmpire #UK #Britain
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[A long thread ball 🧶]
#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience
#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead
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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination
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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination
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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination
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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination
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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination
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Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of #laïcité, the interpretation of which has undergone a notorious shift: whereas yesterday it allowed the pluralist expression of beliefs, today it requires religious neutrality’.
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)
#unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #HennetteVauchez #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France
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Oops I got another book.
"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"
By Michalinos Zembylas, 2021
https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2021/04/affect-right-wing-populism-and-education/
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OnlineFirst - "“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics" by Anna Krzywoszynska:
#regenag #microbes #biopolitics #farming
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241246498
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Debating Biopolitics: New Perspectives on the Government of Life edited by Marco Piasentier
This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects all aspects of our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#biopolitics
#biopower
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This book review by Heidi A. R. Rhodes makes me SO excited to read Jemima Repo's The Biopolitics of Gender (2016).
"Repo endeavors to agitate the idea of gender as a "major object and analytical tool of contemporary Western feminism" that has been naturalized as a discursive and historical fact in science, politics, and government."
#Philosophy #Biopolitics #Biopower #Feminism #Gender #BookReview #Book
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Just published
Vulnerabilities. Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-pandemic
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39378-5
Written from diverse disciplines and global contexts, this edited volume offers fresh insights for a critical examination of vulnerability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enjoy!
#Bioethics #GlobalBioethics #PublicHealth #Biopolitics #Medicine #COVID #Biosocial #PandemicPreparedness #Wellbeing #Healthcare #MentalHealth #HealthPromotion #SDG3
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Re-read the feedback from my writing coach/developmental editor on my #Edgeworth chapter and it's so helpful--especially the point that I need to pull the #biopolitics argument more to the fore. But right now, it's good enough to set aside and move to the next chapter. #acwri
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Hi! A short #introduction: research on parallel tracks of medical #anthropology plus interdisciplinary study of #disasters.
#embodiment #ritual #gender #midwifery #tsunami #DVI #governmentality #biopolitics #necropolitics #demography #volcanoes #risk
Recent focus during the #covid19 #pandemic via #art and #netnography on the #Amabie phenomenon in #Japan and globally. Academia needs to take #creativity seriously.
Previous roots in classic music and fine arts.
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Thought I'd add some #theory hashtags in hope of connecting with others engaging with #CulturalTheory #PoliticalTheory #NonRepresentationalTheory (#NRT) or #philosophy of #geography.
I enjoy discussing #Foucault, #Benjamin, #Arendt, #Deleuze and #Guattari, #Ranciere, #Serres, as well as #feminist #NewMaterialisms, #CriticalRaceTheory, and #intersectionality.
Key theoretical themes include #affect #aesthetics #authority #power #landscape #performance #biopolitics #body #humour #violence #care
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When governments fail the planet, we have to make our voices heard: join artist Joanie Lemercier, Samaneh Moafi, artists Matthew Plummer-Fernández, Theresa Schubert and activist Kathia von Roth for a discussion on taking (drastic) action. ⏰ Oct 5 – 7pm CEST ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y3agtbv4
#NODE20 #SecondNature #panel #hyperobjects #environmentalactivist #postcolonialsm #contemporarydance #geopolitics #Biopolitics #soundecology #coexistence #sustainability #activism
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When governments fail the planet, we have to make our voices heard: join artist Joanie Lemercier, Samaneh Moafi, artists Matthew Plummer-Fernández, Theresa Schubert and activist Kathia von Roth for a discussion on taking (drastic) action. ⏰ Oct 5 – 7pm CEST ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y3agtbv4
#NODE20 #SecondNature #panel #hyperobjects #environmentalactivist #postcolonialsm #contemporarydance #geopolitics #Biopolitics #soundecology #coexistence #sustainability #activism
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When governments fail the planet, we have to make our voices heard: join artist Joanie Lemercier, Samaneh Moafi, artists Matthew Plummer-Fernández, Theresa Schubert and activist Kathia von Roth for a discussion on taking (drastic) action. ⏰ Oct 5 – 7pm CEST ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y3agtbv4
#NODE20 #SecondNature #panel #hyperobjects #environmentalactivist #postcolonialsm #contemporarydance #geopolitics #Biopolitics #soundecology #coexistence #sustainability #activism