#biopower — Public Fediverse posts
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4529f311-3f60-4844-b67f-ef4dbc43a257
#biopower #foucault #fingerprints #ears #noses #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #mouths #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4529f311-3f60-4844-b67f-ef4dbc43a257
#biopower #foucault #fingerprints #ears #noses #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #mouths #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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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.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/the-architecture-of-cognitive-compromise/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #morals #ethics #thickness #legibility #ontology #biopower #habitus #paradox #tolerance #epistemology #abortion #rights #culture #frameworks #society #blog #podcast #communication -
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.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/the-architecture-of-cognitive-compromise/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #morals #ethics #thickness #legibility #ontology #biopower #habitus #paradox #tolerance #epistemology #abortion #rights #culture #frameworks #society #blog #podcast #communication -
Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Eyes (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e71d411b-66b4-450a-a570-a1a901700e7c
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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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)."https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/08/consent-and-rape-is-it-modern-thing-no_78.html by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @kataplexis
#household #property #rape #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #slavery #reputation #honour #honor #family
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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)."https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/08/consent-and-rape-is-it-modern-thing-no_78.html by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @[email protected]
#household #property #rape #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #slavery #reputation #honour #honor #family
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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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"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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[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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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."
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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."
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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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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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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
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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
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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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/1em46dq/comment/lgwbl9y
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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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/1em46dq/comment/lgwbl9y
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Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized
Taylor Stevens for Fox13 SLC/UtahUtah murders children who misbehave. It's a religious war on children's lives.
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Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized
Taylor Stevens for Fox13 SLC/UtahUtah murders children who misbehave. It's a religious war on children's lives.
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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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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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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."
#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
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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."
#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
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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."
#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
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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."
#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
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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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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
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“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."
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“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."
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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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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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‘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."
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/7724_biopolitical-experience-review-by-cary-federman/
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‘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."
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/7724_biopolitical-experience-review-by-cary-federman/
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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."
https://afors.org/2021/06/29/reclaiming-biopower-and-biopolitics/
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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."
https://afors.org/2021/06/29/reclaiming-biopower-and-biopolitics/
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@dendroniker
Indeed we have confusion of care and domination.
Possession should oblige. It does not in Roman-inspired law. Here is a glimpse at how it happened: https://techhub.social/@estelle/109734897675196003#compassion #empathy #history #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour #ownership #possession
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@dendroniker
Indeed we have confusion of care and domination.
Possession should oblige. It does not in Roman-inspired law. Here is a glimpse at how it happened: https://techhub.social/@estelle/109734897675196003#compassion #empathy #history #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour #ownership #possession
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Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the #openaccess publication of The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/
'Humanity now faces the possibility it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This raises the prospect of thought’s own #extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear?
No familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the prospect of humanity’s extinction, each one is shattered. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble.
This book moves through this field to reconsider the emergence of #capitalism and #biopower the science of #climate change, and philosophies of #temporality
In the process it contends with many innovative waves of thought from the past two centuries, from German #idealism to #deconstruction, from #psychoanalysis to #queertheory, from #decolonizing theory to #afropessimism, and from the critique of #ideology to speculative realism.'
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Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the #openaccess publication of The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/
'Humanity now faces the possibility it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This raises the prospect of thought’s own #extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear?
No familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the prospect of humanity’s extinction, each one is shattered. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble.
This book moves through this field to reconsider the emergence of #capitalism and #biopower the science of #climate change, and philosophies of #temporality
In the process it contends with many innovative waves of thought from the past two centuries, from German #idealism to #deconstruction, from #psychoanalysis to #queertheory, from #decolonizing theory to #afropessimism, and from the critique of #ideology to speculative realism.'
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This article!
"Patriarchal power as a conceptual tool for gender history"
By Bob Pierik (2022).
Rethinking History, 26(1), 71-92.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13642529.2022.2037864
"We can understand the reproduction of bodies and societies together, as
a non-separable process, without conflating them as being the same."#Feminism #Patriarchy #Biopower #Gender #Histodons #Autonomy #Walby #Foucault #Butler #Philosophy #CriticalTheory #History
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This article!
"Patriarchal power as a conceptual tool for gender history"
By Bob Pierik (2022).
Rethinking History, 26(1), 71-92.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13642529.2022.2037864
"We can understand the reproduction of bodies and societies together, as
a non-separable process, without conflating them as being the same."#Feminism #Patriarchy #Biopower #Gender #Histodons #Autonomy #Walby #Foucault #Butler #Philosophy #CriticalTheory #History
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#introduction
I study #law at Sorbonne #Paris Nord.I will learn a lot about:
#institutions #publicLaw #governance #EDPB #Constitution especially in #Germany #Karlsruhe #Grundgesetz #Weimar #Belgium #France #israel #Switzerland
#elites #collusion #sociology #predation #bioPower #normal #norm #institutionsDeceive #judicialBias #unitary
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#introduction
I study #law at Sorbonne #Paris Nord.I will learn a lot about:
#institutions #publicLaw #governance #EDPB #Constitution especially in #Germany #Karlsruhe #Grundgesetz #Weimar #Belgium #France #israel #Switzerland
#elites #collusion #sociology #predation #bioPower #normal #norm #institutionsDeceive #judicialBias #unitary
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“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love… It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between #care and #domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is, to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #history #learning #learn #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour -
“What makes the Roman Law conception of property - the basis of almost all legal systems today - unique is that the responsibility to care and share is reduced to a minimum, or even eliminated entirely. In Roman Law there are three basic rights related to possession: usus (the right to use), fructus (the right to enjoy the products of a property, for instance the fruit of a tree), and abusus (the right to damage or destroy). If one has only the first two rights, this is referred to as usufruct, and is not considered true possession under the law. The defining feature of true legal #property then, is that one has the option not taking care of it, or even destroying it at will.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family #familia #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honor -
"The most important thing we learned from #Foucault is that the living (and therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics. There is no politics that is not a politics of bodies."
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Paul B. #Preciado #quotes #bioPower #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory -
CW: Tech innovation multiplies violence.
The Malleus Maleficarum is the best known treatise on #witchcraft.
Factors stimulating widespread use:
Between 1487 and 1520, twenty editions of the Malleus Maleficarum were published, and another sixteen between 1574 and 1669. The Malleus Maleficarum was able to spread throughout Europe rapidly in the late 15th and at the beginning of the 16th century due to the innovation of the printing press in the middle of the 15th century by Johannes #Gutenberg. The invention of #printing some thirty years before the first publication of the Malleus Maleficarum instigated the fervor of witch hunting."
Wikipedia; text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0
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A big part of #deviantmatter my second monograph, is writing a #history of #hygiene as a diffuse state affect and aesthetic. Writing about atmospheres is hard! But also writing about state archives is brutally dull. Then I realized that what was blocking my writing was exactly the problem that I was trying to describe: that the diffusion of a disciplinary aesthetic and affect is the source of its power. #historians #literature #biopower #c19 #food #foodstudies #race