Neon Liberalism #23: Samantha and guest Alan Elrod talk about the role of #rape in conservative ideology, #biopolitics as the Rosetta Stone of authoritarian reaction, and the pornographic #fantasies that pervade the new right. #podcast https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberalism/neon-liberalism-23-the-porn-brain-of-the-new-right/

📖 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

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/

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/

Susanna Hertrich / Shintaro Miyazaki - Following the Elephant Nosed Fish. Reimagining Our Sensorium

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3295

#followingtheelephantnosedfish #sensorium #electromagneticfields #criticalmedialabbasel #electromagnetic #interference #artsci #artscience #bioart #bioarte #bioartist #ecoart #interspeciesart #postnatural #biopolitics #elephantnosefish #mediaarchaeology #antenna #signalprocessing #radio #radiowaves #transmissionart #soundfrequency #sound #soundsculpture #acousticspace #sonicworld #vibration

Open Source Œestrogen − Mary Maggic. 2015

https://peertube.public.cat/videos/watch/ff5f9a69-6ad8-4e7b-89d8-66c5c894e396

"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 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

@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

"Stopping research into cancer and other diseases, even for children, is the opposite of investing in the future of the American people: it is cruel and uncaring by design.

Harming American influence externally and weakening Americans internally will benefit our adversaries."

#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #biopolitics #healthcare #CDC #NIH #vaccines #cancer #children #pandemic #fascism
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"As signaled by the nomination of conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration may restrict access to vaccines and other proven methods of disease prevention, knowing this sets the stage for the U.S. population to be more susceptible to illness and in the long run less productive and prosperous."

#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #biopolitics #healthcare #CDC #NIH #vaccines #pandemic #fascism
/5

Ruth Ben-Ghiat thinks that the game plan of Trump's fascist biopolitics is to weaken America. She notes that fascist strongmen typically engage in biopolitics, "social engineering and population management programs founded on the idea that some groups should thrive and multiply and others must be ejected from the nation, or decline or be eliminated."

#Trump #Musk #biopolitics #healthcare #CDC #NIH #vaccines #pandemic #fascism
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-trump-administrations-fascist

Biopolitical Production: A Synthesis of Foucault, Bourdieu, Hardt and Negri

New synthesis: biopolitical production through Foucault, Bourdieu, Hardt and Negri. How power shapes life and how we reproduce it. A fresh look at social dynamics and the potential for resistance. #Philosophy #Sociology #Biopolitics Biopolitical production, a concept developed by Hardt and Negri, takes on new dimensions when examined through the lens of Foucauldian biopower and Bourdieu's…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/biopolitical-production-a-synthesis-of-foucault-bourdieu-hardt-and-negri/

Foucault’s Biopower: When Control Extends to Life Itself

🔍 Foucault unveils "biopower": beyond controlling bodies, a management of life itself.🏥 Institutions like hospitals and schools become tools of this subtle power.💡 A striking analysis of our modern society. #Foucault #Biopolitics #Philosophy Michel Foucault, inspired by Nietzsche, developed a profound analysis of the mechanisms of power over bodies. His concept of "biopower" goes further, showing how control…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/foucaults-biopower-when-control-extends-to-life-itself/

The Right to Maim
Jasbir K. Puar (2017)
(Free)

"Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability.

...

Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies."

https://jasbirkpuar.com/the-right-to-maim/

#Disability #Philosophy #Palestine #Biopolitics #Autonomy

"Capital’s answer [to the 1970s crisis] was the neoliberal revolution, directed against the democratic nation-state […]. The search was now on for improved motivational techniques, aimed at making the progress of capitalist accumulation more independent of politically mediated social and economic concessions. A central role in capital’s fight against the apathy of its retainers and the stagnation of capital accumulation caused by it was played by increased competitive pressures on the workers of the ‘affluent societies’ of the West, domestically by ‘deregulation’ and across national borders by ‘globalisation’, forcing them to work harder and submit themselves more obediently to unpredictably fluctuating market conditions, by developing the new kind of ‘governmentality’ that has been so strikingly portrayed by Michel Foucault."

Wolfgang Streeck’s in “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”

#criticalTheory #neoliberalism #attachment #optimism #beliefs #inflation #capitalism #bioPolitics

[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

"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

"It is easy to inadvertently define medical problems in terms of formulas that are shadows of ideological positions. When we do so, the patient—the official focus of the problem to be solved—becomes a medium through which the group consensus or conflict expresses itself. "

"The ordering of certain tests or procedures may be used as a group ritual to affirm the rightness and sanctity of professional group boundaries"

#MedMastodon #Medical #Anthropology #Biopolitics #Ritual

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

"Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power."

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2406/The-Biopolitics-of-FeelingRace-Sex-and-Science-in

#biopolitics #STS #GenderStudies #HistSTM