Commenting on the investigation into the police killing of Luis Rodriguez in Moore, OK in February 2014, an attorney for the Moore, OK police department declared, “In this country, it seems we are becoming anti-police and that the tide has turned in respecting law...
The title of Foucault’s lecture series of 1977-78 Security, Territory, Population was poorly chosen; the series should, as he acknowledges, have been called ‘Governmentality’, since the concern of these lectures is with the overarching ‘problem of government’ – that...
Whom would you ask in order to check if the milk you are drinking is fresh? This trivial question can be answered in multiple ways. For example, one could ask a farmer, a biologist, a chemist, or even a grandparent that lives in a rural area. One could even rest upon...
Naman Hadi, Le Déraciné. Oil on canvas, 132 x 197cm, 1984 Asylum (n.): early 15c., earlier asile (late 14c.), from Latin asylum “sanctuary,” from Greek asylon “refuge,” noun use of neuter of asylos “inviolable, safe from violence,”...
A man is no longer a man confined, but a man in debt. (Deleuze, 1995: 181) Capitalism has complete control over life: it has “biopolitical” control. Hence Deleuze’s above statement in his text on the societies of control, where the regime of indebtedness is as much...
