Colonial Ends/Ends of Life (pt 1)

16Nov20

Recently I did two overlapping talks (one in Brussels one online) on the question of the ends of life (genocide, apocalypse, extinction) and how this relates to the philosophy and history of biology (thinking about ends in terms of goals or thinking life teleologically in the overarching sense in that life is defined by having […]

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Tags: afropessimism, animality, Chakrabarty, sylvia wynter, Thomas Moynihan

The Sociogenic and Decolonial Biology (pt 1)

03Nov20

Jumping off from last time here I am going to make some notes about the history of biology as it concerns the relation of Darwin and Lamarck and how this applies to the social or theoretical uptake of evolutionary theory. Sylvia Wynter’s “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” What […]

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Tags: eugenics, Fanon, Ferenczi, recapitulation, sylvia wynter