Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”: Part 2

Writing is world-making, and speculative fiction and science fiction are genres of literature that are most telling of the writer’s … More

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

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