°bio-sovereignty

September 16, 2006

Part IV of Anne Caldwell’s “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity” (Theory and Event, 7:2, 2004) :

The complexity of the relationship between bio-sovereignty and humanity is most evident in the issue of humanitarian interventions. If such interventions limit nation-state sovereignty, they serve as a ground for bio-sovereignty.

Filed under: Biowar + Rights + Arendt + Foucault + Agamben
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°Right to have rights

September 9, 2006

Again, though I’ve already posted an extract of this before, here’s the entirety of Werner Hamacher’s “The Right to Have Rights (Four-and-a-Half Remarks),” from SAQ, 103:2-3, 2004:

Filed under: Democracy + Marx + Hamacher + Rights + Arendt
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°Preparation

January 17, 2006

Balibar on Arendt and Foucault, excerpted from “Difference, Otherness, Exclusion”, Parallax, 34 (2005) [paragraph breaks inserted]:

[…] What is strikingly similar in Arendt and Foucault (and probably not by chance, although Foucault carefully avoids any reference to Arendt, even when he is commenting on the ’same’ historical sequences), is the fact that neither of them belives that processes of mass extermination, or more generally elimination, ever were possible in history, especially in Modern history, and especially from within States and Societies, without their victims being so to speak prepared for elimination, ie., progressively and institutionally marked as potential, future victims, and collectively pushed into a social symbolic corner where they acquired the status of ‘living corpses’, or masses of individuals who are neither completely ‘alive’ nor yet, already ‘dead’.

Filed under: Biowar + Arendt + Foucault + Balibar
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°One fine day

January 15, 2006

it is quite conceivable that one fine day a highly organised and mechanised humanity will conclude quite democratically - namely by majority decision - that for humanity as a whole it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof.

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Filed under: Biowar + Democracy + Arendt
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