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  1. A colleague and I chatted about a recent publication; he graciously noted he didn't agree with me. I realise that my example was strictly US. In this post, I don't lose the US frame; I added more background and brought in some name support. Feedback and counterpoints welcome.
    👉 philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/t
    #philosophy #morals #ethics #thickness #legibility #ontology #biopower #habitus #paradox #tolerance #epistemology #abortion #rights #culture #frameworks #society #blog #podcast #communication

  2. A colleague and I chatted about a recent publication; he graciously noted he didn't agree with me. I realise that my example was strictly US. In this post, I don't lose the US frame; I added more background and brought in some name support. Feedback and counterpoints welcome.
    👉 philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/t
    #philosophy #morals #ethics #thickness #legibility #ontology #biopower #habitus #paradox #tolerance #epistemology #abortion #rights #culture #frameworks #society #blog #podcast #communication

  3. About #consent:
    "The Gortyn law code (6th century BCE) stipulates that in cases of "he said, she said" involving slaves, the female slave is believed over whoever rapes her. This is, of course, intended to protect her owner's property (her)."

    rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/ by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @kataplexis

    #household #property #rape #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #slavery #reputation #honour #honor #family

  4. About :
    "The Gortyn law code (6th century BCE) stipulates that in cases of "he said, she said" involving slaves, the female slave is believed over whoever rapes her. This is, of course, intended to protect her owner's property (her)."

    rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/ by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @[email protected]

  5. 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: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

  6. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • 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 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #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

  7. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • 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 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

  8. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • 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 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #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

  9. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • 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 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #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

  10. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • 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 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #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

  11. "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"

    @economics 🧶

    #memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination

  12. "The 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 in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"

    @economics 🧶

  13. American Medicine As Culture
    Howard F. Stein, 1990

    "This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction of clinical reality within American biomedicine and shows how biomedicine never leaves the realm of the personal."

    taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1

    #Culture #Medicine #Biopower #Philosophy #Book

  14. American Medicine As Culture
    Howard F. Stein, 1990

    "This book situates biomedicine within American culture and argues that the very organization and practice of medicine are themselves cultural. It demonstrates the symbolic construction of clinical reality within American biomedicine and shows how biomedicine never leaves the realm of the personal."

    taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1

    #Culture #Medicine #Biopower #Philosophy #Book

  15. 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

  16. Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of , 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)

  17. Drifting away from biomedical hegemonies:
    Representations, discourses, and practices of health professionals on sexuality and gender in childhood
    Langarita et al.

    "The appeal to the future in the narratives of the professionals presents more as a discourse that paralyses and takes away responsibility rather than as an aspiration to transform the lives of children and young people who do not follow sexual and gender norms."

    DOI: 10.4324/9781003294719-8

    #Biopower #Adultism #LGBTQ #Philosophy

  18. Drifting away from biomedical hegemonies:
    Representations, discourses, and practices of health professionals on sexuality and gender in childhood
    Langarita et al.

    "The appeal to the future in the narratives of the professionals presents more as a discourse that paralyses and takes away responsibility rather than as an aspiration to transform the lives of children and young people who do not follow sexual and gender norms."

    DOI: 10.4324/9781003294719-8

    #Biopower #Adultism #LGBTQ #Philosophy

  19. Intactivism subreddit owner is taking an explicitly anti-intellectual turn. They (this moderator) banned me a few weeks ago for asking him if he's considered that transgender circumcision sufferers may be affected differently than cisgender sufferers.

    reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comme

    #intactivism #biopower #circumcision #reactionary #reddit

  20. Intactivism subreddit owner is taking an explicitly anti-intellectual turn. They (this moderator) banned me a few weeks ago for asking him if he's considered that transgender circumcision sufferers may be affected differently than cisgender sufferers.

    reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comme

    #intactivism #biopower #circumcision #reactionary #reddit

  21. Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized
    Taylor Stevens for Fox13 SLC/Utah

    fox13now.com/news/fox-13-inves

    Utah murders children who misbehave. It's a religious war on children's lives.

    #WarOnChildren #UTPol #Utah #Necropolitics #Biopower

  22. Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized
    Taylor Stevens for Fox13 SLC/Utah

    fox13now.com/news/fox-13-inves

    Utah murders children who misbehave. It's a religious war on children's lives.

    #WarOnChildren #UTPol #Utah #Necropolitics #Biopower

  23. 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

    cambridgeblog.org/2021/04/affe

    #Fascism #Biopower #biopolitics #philosophy #book

  24. 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

    cambridgeblog.org/2021/04/affe

    #Fascism #Biopower #biopolitics #philosophy #book

  25. Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."

    Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."

    (fr) radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

    #reputation #SAAM #assault #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #sluts #whores #adolescence #violence #HappySlapping #film #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalization #subdue #subjugation #patriarchy #brutalization #moralPanic #responsibility #maleViolence #empathy #masculinity #truth #evidence #parenting #rumours #gender #SecondarySchool #HighSchool #harassment #targeting #school #sociology #education

  26. Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."

    Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."

    (fr) radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

  27. Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.

    Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".

    Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."

    (fr) radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

    #France #reputation #adolescence #violence #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalisation #normation #subdue #subjugation #patriarchy #brutalisation #responsibility #masculinity #truth #evidence #parenting #rumours #gender #SecondarySchool #HighSchool #harassment #targeting #school #psychology #education #SAAM2024 #SAAM #childhood #children

  28. Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.

    Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".

    Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."

    (fr) radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

  29. 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
    #life

  30. 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
    #life

  31. “The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness”: Authority, Self, and the Origins of Patient Autonomy in Early Jewish Law
    Ayelet Libson, Am. J. Legal History (2016)

    "This article examines the pre-modern conflict between these principles, revealing how the early tradition of Jewish law sustained different models of expertise, authority and personal autonomy."

    academic.oup.com/ajlh/article/

    #Judaism #Autonomy #Biopower #Ethics #History

  32. “The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness”: Authority, Self, and the Origins of Patient Autonomy in Early Jewish Law
    Ayelet Libson, Am. J. Legal History (2016)

    "This article examines the pre-modern conflict between these principles, revealing how the early tradition of Jewish law sustained different models of expertise, authority and personal autonomy."

    academic.oup.com/ajlh/article/

    #Judaism #Autonomy #Biopower #Ethics #History

  33. This book review by Heidi A. R. Rhodes makes me SO excited to read Jemima Repo's The Biopolitics of Gender (2016).

    cambridge.org/core/services/ao

    "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

  34. This book review by Heidi A. R. Rhodes makes me SO excited to read Jemima Repo's The Biopolitics of Gender (2016).

    cambridge.org/core/services/ao

    "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

  35. ‘Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique’ reviewed by Cary Federman – Marx & Philosophy Society

    "biopower cannot be strictly understood in negative terms, as a caged existence. Rather, subjectivity for Foucault exists within a plurality of forces, some of which negate, but some of which provide the grounds for producing alternatives ways of living."

    marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie

    #Philosophy #Biopower #Foucault #BookReview #Marxism

  36. ‘Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique’ reviewed by Cary Federman – Marx & Philosophy Society

    "biopower cannot be strictly understood in negative terms, as a caged existence. Rather, subjectivity for Foucault exists within a plurality of forces, some of which negate, but some of which provide the grounds for producing alternatives ways of living."

    marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie

    #Philosophy #Biopower #Foucault #BookReview #Marxism

  37. Reclaiming Biopower and Biopolitics - Alliance for Sustainability

    "Biopower works by distinguishing between what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘abnormal,’ since people are disciplined to avoid the abnormal."

    "rather than choosing to constantly clash with societal expectations, it may be easier to create a ‘new normal’ where you are part of a community with the same attitudes."

    afors.org/2021/06/29/reclaimin

    #Agamben #Foucault #Environment #Biopower #Integration

  38. Reclaiming Biopower and Biopolitics - Alliance for Sustainability

    "Biopower works by distinguishing between what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘abnormal,’ since people are disciplined to avoid the abnormal."

    "rather than choosing to constantly clash with societal expectations, it may be easier to create a ‘new normal’ where you are part of a community with the same attitudes."

    afors.org/2021/06/29/reclaimin

    #Agamben #Foucault #Environment #Biopower #Integration