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i dont think thinkers like agamben and michel foucault that coined biopolitics are revolutionalist. So yes they strive more to explain and analyse political discourses

while imo they are certainly grounded in certain traditions on the left this is more of an explanatory thing

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Hi Waffe, thanks for your comment and your question. The way I see it, prisoners, for example, are in a state of exception (e.g. no right ot vote) that has become normalised and legalised, to put it bluntly. A better example would be the Patriot Act, where there was an 'emergency', so the law was changed to allow infringement on rights guaranteed by the US constitution. Another example is Covid vaccine mandates, which is an exercise of biopower, I am not taking a position here on government responses to the Covid crisis but when there is an 'emergency', then laws can be quickly changed or ignored, meaning you have rights, but they are not inalienable. The state of exception is often enacted using the term emergency in contemporary political discourse. One might argue that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was legitimated under the pretence of a state of emergency. That is, Putin claimed Russian separatists were being illegally discriminated against and so 'had to' break some international law to meet his national obligations to them. That's how I think about state of exception. Civil laws are not set in stone, so neither are your rights. Human rights, in general and in particular for Western states, have even less legitimacy. If you check who has been prosecuted in the Hauge, you won't find Westerners (excepting some Serbs). So, in my opinion, national rights are the locus of all legitimate right to violence and human rights are a nice idea but are very difficult to implement because rights are really national by defination (for citizens). That is why refugees and undocumented migrants are in such a tough position. No nation really HAS TO protect them so most don't most of the time. Hope this helps.

The mandates are interesting in that they are certainly biopolitical measures imposed under the banner of a state of exception.

Hi Andre. Yes, I wrote the text. I'm really glad you made use of it and went to the touble to translate it. Thanks.

Your very welcome! Thanks for your comment!

Hi Craig. My apologies for the poor referencing. It should say Walther 2014. Here is the paper from which the excert is taken: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-05700-8_2

i would like one covid 19 please :|

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Thanks for your comment Burbik. I am eager to make more videos but it is hard to find the time!

Hey Gerardo. Thanks for your comment. I have posted the transcript in the comment above.

@@tommiesoro6063 thanks for your respond. But I cant find it. Can you send it to my email: [email protected]? Thank you so much

@Tommie Sorro Can I please have a transcript too? I'm not much of an audio learner & coronacation is driving me nuts. Thanks! If you can, please email me @ [email protected]

Thanks to you @Tommie I've get the transcript. May God bless you always.

@@gerardomayolla4968 can you sent me one to my Yahoo acct. At [email protected] & my school acct. [email protected]? Thanks!

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Hi Richard, thanks for sharing the link. Yes, the case is a great example of the fragility of citizenship in modern democratic states. It also illustrates the kind of instrumental rationalisations (here, to maintain national security) that are used to justify the dispossession of what most would assume are inalienable rights. The girl was 15 when she made the misguided decision to join the ISIS caliphate. I struggle to see how this is more egregious than the crimes of UK citizens charged with murder, sex offences, or human trafficking every year. The salient difference appears to be that Shamima is conceptualised as a member of a recognisable group that has been identified as a threat to the population. It seems, therefore, that it is not her crimes but the crimes of ISIS that are the real justification for the severity of her punishment. Thanks for your comment.

You're very welcome. Thanks for the comment!

i have aquestion. could you please help if possible?

Hi JK, I have added a trascript to the video in the comment section.

@@tommiesoro6063 Thank you. But I can't find it 😢

Am I a Homo sacer here? 😭

Sorry JK. KZfaq keeps deleting my comment. I have commented from another account so hopefully the transcript will appear now.

Unfortunately, it seems KZfaq keeps deleting the comment, perhaps because it contains terms which their algorhytms incorrectly code as hatespeech. If you send me your email, I will send you the transcript and then delete the comment containing your email address. That's all I can do for now.

Hi, I cannot remember where in the video I talk about biology and do not have time right now to watch the video again but biology relates to biopolitics in a relatively straightforard way. Biology is key to the establishment of biopolitics because it helps to measure and organise human life processes - sex, reproduction, health - for the purposes of controlling the population. That is not to say that biologists are trying to control everyone. Simply that biology is a form of knowledge on the basis of which disciplinary power is exerted on the bodies of citizens, thus allowing for them to be made into particular types of subjects - subjects which are observed, measured, compared, examined, and so on to distinguish between, and thereby create, the normal and abnormal subject. From this norm, the state can decide who should be sustained, sterilised, euthanised, and so on, depending on its interests. Biology is a form of knowledge that provides a basis for disciplinary power over the body - biopolitics. I hope this answers your question.

@@tommiesoro6063 Thank you sir. I'm from India and for students like me, you're a great resource. Thanks again for spending time for my query.

@@AbdulRahman-ir5zn Your very welcome Abdul. Thanks for the question!

Hi Jack, thanks for your interest in my work. The thesis is submitted but still has to be defended (viva voce) and everything is on hold with the virus. The first paper from the thesis has been published in the Journal of Social Semiotics. It is titled 'The rules of the game: discursive norms and limits in the field of contemporary art magazines'. If you want to read it but do not have institutional access to journals, let me know and I will send you a draft copy.

Agree..