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Eugene Thacker - The Global Genome

Eugene Thacker. The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. The MIT Press, 2005.
Although the main object of Thacker’s The Global Genome is biology (and body itself), the context in which he deals with the object throughout the book is more complex than simple investigation on scientific discipline (genomics) or biological matter (genome). Rather his context… »

Nikolas Rose - The Politics of Life Itself

Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century, Princeton University Press, 2006.
While reading Rose’s The Politics of Life Itself, I thought that it was complementing Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s Biocapital, where I had felt something was missing. If Biocapital focuses on the global-scale capitalist economy under the effect of… »

Agamben - Homo Sacer

Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Stanford UP, 1998.
Agamben finds the essence of modern politics – in accordance with modernity and capitalism – at the “inclusion of zoē in the polis” or, in other words, the “politicization of bare life as such.” By referring to Foucault’s concept of “biopolitics”[1] as well as Schmitt’s… »

Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I

When it comes to power relations, Foucault tries to overcome traditional assumption on power (p. 94-) by treating it as something exercised from not single and fixed point but multiple and mobile points. Thus, he could assert that the “points of resistance are present everywhere in the power network”(95) because the points of resistance will… »

memo on Foucault

How to apply Foucault’s The History of Sexuality to the analysis of North Korean disturbing propaganda bills in anti-communist era of South Korea from 60s to 80s.

had to confront them, had to collect them to dispose them…
but had to ignore them, had to pretend to be unaware of them…

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Aihwa Ong - Buddha is Hiding

Aihwa Ong, Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America, Univ. of Califirnia Press, 2003.

Aihwa Ong’s Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America is a book on the complicated process of transformation and the production of citizen-subject through the various modern technologies of government, including refugee camp, social workers, medicine, and other social institutions. This… »