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The Barbarian’s Eternal Present

In Foucault’s consequential lecture series written at the height of the formative time in his development of genealogy, “Society Must Be Defended”, there is a short interlude that demands some meditation – especially in our time.There was a moment, in that constant war of political philosophy in the Early Modern period, where Homo oeconomicus was,…

The Philosopher and the Population

These are comments from a panel at SPEP I would like to thank Shawn and John for graciously sending me this invite to participate in this roundtable on an intriguing and difficult topic – one that titans from Reiner Schurmann to Hannah Arendt and others have attempted to speak to all in different ways. Well,…

A Word on Friendship

Maurice Blanchot, in his excursus on friendship, is brief, tactfully so. Blanchot is an author who can make of brevity a tool for opening expanses. Blanchot’s mastery of the aphoristic form exemplifies this, but even in his more conventional prose one finds where he restrains himself the most to be the most pensive. His essay,…

The Exception of Politics: On Disability in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer

Introduction: A Tenuous Thread It is difficult to overstate the complexity and vastness, as well as the delicacy and modesty, of Giorgio Agamben’s twenty-year research project, Homo Sacer. What seemingly began as a book meant to examine the relation between the ontological structure of the polis and its (excluded and annihilated) components ultimately expanded to…

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My work, if one could call it that, centers primarily around disability and biopolitics.

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