Patterns: politics

Holding science hostage: part 1

On December 21, 2000, after passing through both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001 (H.R. 4577) received the presidential signature.  The bill provided a detailed summary of the funds that would be available for a wide variety of federal programs during the 2001 fiscal year and,

Revenance

“would you just stop essentializing zombies to their bodily functions, for once?” the virus: human immunodeficiency virus, seeds of autoimmunity a parasite, an Other within the first step towards a body without organs the subject: an evacuated self, experiencing pleasure without truth production of desire, metastasis of addiction: a high anxiety fearing the other, a

Sameness and difference

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