Writing is world-making, and speculative fiction and science fiction are genres of literature that are most telling of the writer’s … More
Tag: biopolitics
Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
So I’m (re)reading Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and wondering what the story would be like if Of-fred had been … More
Currently Reading: 2 December 2013
Tryon P. Woods – “Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Blackness” (2013) Abstract: This essay explores the discursive production of black … More
Anti-Blackness as a Form of BioPolitics: Remembering Renisha McBride and Jonathan Ferrell
Renisha McBride. Jonathan Ferrell. Remember these names. To be Black in America is to inhabit a body that is always … More
The (Bio)Politics of Respectability: Thoughts on the Theater of Non-Violence
“Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?” – … More
Brief Musings on Biopolitics – Again
“Any historical account of the rise of modern terror needs to address slavery, which could be considered one of the … More
The (bio)Politics of Respectability: An Epiphany
… Vigils for the dead-dead, hosted by the socially dead. T-shirts, hashtags, placards and blogposts to honor the dead-dead. These … More
how does it feel to be a problem?
In Chapter 1 of W.E.B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk, he asks “How does it feel to be a problem?” The enduring … More
The Calculus of Life
Brown body. Gendered body. Classed body. Dis/abled body. Queer body. Transgressive bodies. The calculus of life leaves these Othered bodies … More
Update
I’m in the 7th week of my Winter Quarter at UChicago. My classes this Quarter are focused on 1) the … More
Thoughts and Impressions on Elizabeth Grosz’ “Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism”
Elizabeth Grosz’s 1994 volume entitled, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism has been influential in my own thinking on the body as … More
A Deconstructionist Poem: Corporeal Veridiction
I decided to summarize my notes on governmentality, biopolitics, and disciplinary societies in the form of a poem. There are … More