The Banana Peel Project

Politics is the continuation of war by other means.
-Michel Foucault
What is politics if not strategy?  In politics, we work with what is available in order to achieve what is possible.  But resources are not unlimited.  Nor is everything possible.  So how do we decide what we can accomplish given the limits defined by history, by […]

How can we talk about a resilient, flexible, self-reflexive self without appealing to some natural, fundamental subject?  How can we understand the thinking, agentive, self-aware subject whose boundaries are themselves continuously negotiated with other agents?  The self that is articulated in and through engagement with drugs—whether by taking them or simply by talking about them—is […]

Like Foucault and those who have followed him, I am interested in the “how” of power.  This form of power is played out both between and within individuals, and it is made necessary and rendered visible by the irreducible materiality of psychopharmaceutical technologies.  Revealing and tracing these inter- and intra-personal technologies is a crucial first […]