Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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deadpoet wrote:tycho wrote:deadpoet wrote:Lol,
I see tycho is still as mind boggling as ever. What the hell is biopolitics? Never mind, I won't get an answer. At least not a lucid one.
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...
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