I hope no more people will die of these elections, and that the status quo may be restored as quickly as possible, and a new thinking formulated with as few deaths as possible.

Kisa na maana, is that I identify with those protesters from Kisumu, Kibera and even Tahrir. And it's not a few times that I've remembered the deaths of some of these protesters, and the lives they had been living.

And I look at my life, and wonder if I fare any better. If I were to die today, I too would be ungrieved as they are/were.

Maybe the difference I have with my brothers and sisters is that I have this strong belief that it is possible to know what a good life is, structure the self towards a good life and in fact, live it.

That's why I cast my vote. How I live and how I vote are connected. How I vote must facilitate how I wish to live, or at least, how I live.

And so you can imagine how it is for those who yearn for their lives to change and haven't forgotten, at least unconsciously, that their lives are politically engineered?

The 'goons' @ is talking about are the 'ungrieved'. I fear that soon, you'll start calling them 'walkers' as you shoot them.

Then these walkers will bite others and the whole place will be filled with walkers.

@ Tycho,we are alive and saddened by the deaths.We pray that reason prevails.As Matiang'i says peaceful protest is allowed and will be given police protection.But hooliganism,breaking of shops,looting and stoning police will for sure be met with equal force.

Meanwhile Orengo and Co have claimed 100+ havee been killed and that the bodies are carried in body bags to unknown destinations.Then Muthama added they are working on some unspecified action in the court of public opinion.We are following as we pray........I guess they are in stage 2 of grief.

And they dont want baba to talk.

Don't you think it's lazy, and even opressive to let others bear the burden of being lucid? It's like an unconsious barring of others. Notice the pre-emption of response...

Anyway, without trying to be lucid on other's behalf, I'll tell you what 'biopolitics' is. It is the politics that arises because an individual is alive, or exists, before any other consideration.

Biopolitics is about how we live and even how we die.

The ungrieved are those who find themselves as socio-political outsiders who more often than not are unvalued and even uncared for.

That sounds a lot like existentialism - existence precedes essence? Why use one word for the other?

As for 'ungrieved', I find your definition wanting. As a philosophy student, you obviously know how important or unreliable words can be - for instance, from your definition, it seems to me that ungrieved equates to the untouchables of Hinduism. In what circumstances, therefore, can the word be applied elsewhere? I find it hard to find a Kenyan context.

'If x is similar to y, then x = y'. Is this rigor, @deadpoet?

Biopolitics may be similar to existentialism, but it's definitely not existentialism. In the first place biopolitics isn't a philosophy but is a phenomenon.

Some of these 'untouchables' equivalents died yesterday. Some may die tomorrow...

Blindness is the big problem.The messiah is he who illuminates. And to illuminate is to build the capacity for sight. Because the light is always there.

I moan all these deaths, wrought in the kingdom of darkness.

Isn't it amazing that the greatest political action is one that doesn't depend to a party or leader? I can't imagine the extent of my mental slavery!