Posts Tagged ‘biopolitics’
Given Agamben’s recent gaff and some of the responses to it, it seems important to ask what is the bio- in biopolitics (as I ended the last post)? The problem is not only that certain trends in contemporary biology have dominated the popular perception of it (internal and external to the discipline itself) but also […]
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Tags: agamben, biology, biopolitics, environment, organicism, technology
Flattened Herds
16Mar20
Flattening the curve and herd immunity are terms that are being thrown around quite a bit during the last few days. The former refers to getting the number of cases down so that they do not overwhelm the carrying capacity of a given countries’ health care system while the latter refers to the notion that […]
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Tags: agamben, biopolitics, contagion, corona virus, flattening the curve, herd immunity
Naught Thought 