Highlights, lowlights, links, and the suggestion that some academics – some of the time – let wishful thinking and personal ideology guide their scholarship, from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream:
Honest biopolitics intro: “Western govt’s collect mountains of data for cradle-to-grave health care, but let’s focus on stuff I don’t like”
Liberal academics who find biopolitics everywhere have been mostly silent on ObamaCare, where gov’t helps manage health care. Strange, that.
Reading Fredric Jameson (sigh, dissertation work). He says lots of stuff about the Wells Fargo building being 2-dimensional. Having lived across it from it for 5 yrs and having seeing it daily outside my window, no it isn’t.
Two theories: (1) lacan.com mailing list moderator is infected with worm and spamming nonsense or (2) very elaborate form/content performance
In everyday prose “always” and “never” are gratingly lazy. In academic writing and critical thy they’re… what? Ambitiously sophisticated?
From a graduate student perspective, this: http://is.gd/HYBymt
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“Liberal academics who find biopolitics everywhere have been mostly silent on ObamaCare, where gov’t helps manage health care.”
Spot on observation. I remember in a graduate seminar on critical theory that “biopolitics” was a major preoccupation for Michel Foucault. Yet I’m willing to bet good money that just about everyone who admires Foucault’s thought supports socialized medicine in one form or another.
The same people who sport “Keep your laws off my body” bumper stickers on their Priuses have no problem telling us what we may or may not put into or on our bodies.