( the official bourgeois public sphere is the institutional vehicle for a major historical transformation in the nature of political domination )

Hey all, remember how I used to post notes on readings I did? I'm gonna try to do that sometimes again for things I am doing notes-aside on rather than notes-annotated. Don't expect quite as many as last fall, but hopefully these are still interesting to a few of you!

( Critics occupy a position both inside and outside of the public. )

( I have way too many notes for a four-page paper argh )

I have to write a four-to-five page summary and discussion leadin of the readings for this week, which include:

• Stefan Helmreich, "Species of Biocapital"
• Michel Foucault, "Right of Death and Power over Life"
• Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (chapters 0,1, 2, 5)

These notes will come from all of those texts and are ( Read more... )

( Stuff white people like, partial list: Rocks. )

Abstract: Core idea of this paper is that firearms diffusion into and through the Gonarezhou area of South Eastern Zimbabwe has been going on since 1500, and seeks to describe the "deep involvement of African users of firearms in the diffusion process" despite "essentially negative impact." (201)
( Human beings could not inflict this harm without technology. )

( For Veblen, ownership of what Marx called the means of production represented in effect a theft of the community’s collective technological knowledge. )

( not only is appropriation of Hart as a lesbian super problematic and gauche, but so is appropriation of Hart as a transsexual. )

( So is _this_ how you create a body without organs? )

( a kind of corporeal blasphemy )