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Heredity’s Fragment: A Note on Democracy

In the second lecture of Foucault’s course at the Collège de France, “Society Must Be Defended”, we are introduced to the discourse on right within modern political thought in the context of a prolonged war. This war will be, for Foucault, the object of his analysis. It will guide the developments, breaks, and shifts in…

The Face of the Eye of Power: On Slipping Subjectivities

[manuscript for presentation at Stony Brook] To Have No Face: Introduction Like so many Foucault conference papers start with an epigraphical quotation of Deleuze, I will, in turn, start mine with a quote from Michel Foucault: do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing – with…

A Preparatory Note To An Evacuation

We Stand Without Apology Before a Resigned Philosophy: The history of philosophy is, among many other things, a history of an articulation of a world disclosed exclusively through increasingly refined notions of capacity and ability. In an insurgent context, this would not be a controversial claim. But there is no place in insurgency among those…

“To Kill the Vanquished”: Rousseau at the Threshold of Biopolitics

[Manuscript from a talk delivered at the centennial celebration of Foucault at Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6] Introduction: For the past two years, my focus has been investigating what my friends and I have described as “eugenic modernity.” I have examined this, first, from the position of neoliberalism and biopolitics, then from the state…

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