Notes for 3 March 2016

LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016

• Presentation: Calvin Davison, Esposito's The Enigma of Biopolitics
  • Handout here.
• Other things to bring up (if there's time, if Calvin doesn't do so already)
  • From the author's in troduction: It is exactly the tragic paradox that Michel Foucault, in a series of writings dating back to the middle of the 1970s, examined. Why does a politics of life always risk being reversed into a work of death? (8)
  • Esposito's critique of Agamben (14–15)
    • What is an absolutely natural life (15)?
  • Where do we see the immunitary metaphor (19 ff.) in contemporary politics?
  • biopolitics, subjectivization, death: 31–36
  • Going back over Foucault's notion of power: 36
  • How is police science meant to foster life or produce goods? (37)
  • How is life politicized, how is law biologized, in Beloved?