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yawn... [this is of course rude of me]

I'm intrigued by the fact that this discussion is in the "Thought" section...

Indeed. It's not like coconut or vegemite or something. I feel like it's a pretty meaningless preference. Oxygen, love it or hate it?

But the not so beautiful thing about the intarweb...It's probably all guys.

Politician...god I hope not...I stay off the stuff, it doesn't work for me. Life's a bit edgier, but you give and you take

I don't want to sound mean, but your post corroborates my suspicions that I think politics and pot don't mix. Enjoy the ride.

Yea, I read the Comming Community and The Time that Remains just recently. The problem is that I don't see how his idea of detachment, or the internal division that brings the Law to its fulfillment, or whatever (literally) connects with any figure of a subject. ON this note, it even seems...

I agree with your reformulation, and I've been more and more noticing Agamben's Heideggerian tendencies. The one thing I haven't been able to do is understand his messianism. It's painfully obtuse to me

They're so much easier to find, too.

This was truly the ballsiest thing I've seen in years. Bush was indeed no more than 5 feet away and Colbert went on for at least 15 minutes. I don't think this President has ever had this much sustained criticism. I watched it with a friend and we both ended up turning to each other after it...

I appreciate the thorough response. I see what you mean, but I think Agamben especially is much more pessimistic: And yet since life and death are now merely biopolitical concepts, as we have seen, Karen Quinlan's [the overcomatose patient on life support] body--which wavers between life and...

It looks to me like one of the big names on the list is Norman Geras, which is really interesting to me. Reading up a while ago on some of the humanist/anti-humanist debates in Marxism, I was reccommended some of Geras' work. He was a humanist marxist, supportive of human rights against alot...

Did we really though? We built it into existence, we created the machines (both physical and metaphorical) that have cut these borders and these heirarchies, and it wasn't simply a leap into a new type of language of opression. To quote Walter Benjamin: [Training the working class that they...

I think Cornelius deserves a staff position at AP...That's one of the better experiences I've had reading the news...

Dude, I hate to be the spoilsport but you've probably just gotten us all on any number of FBI/Interpol watchlists...If not arrested. Good luck booking plane tickets, right?

So I've been reading alot of 'thinkers of the biopolitical', for lack of a less ugly term: Foucault, Agamben, Hardt&Negri. The biopolitical argument is a potent one, historically and theoretically it would seem. I think there is little doubt that the power of sovereignty, capital, empire...

Padraig, nice follow up, I'm glad this thread has been revived. Your first point, regarding the structuring principle, is a good one. I follow Badiou again here and call these various things, which in the poor state of politics today simply become 'identities', the inexistant. When Marx...

No worries, hell, maybe King used it too...

That too.

Sure confucius, race is genetically identifiable, as might be homosexuality. There's the new heart medication that only works on blacks; I don't think that anyone in particular is denying that what we call race has been justified by the singling out of particular (in truth almost insignificant...