Info Unltd with Elizabeth Povinelli and Ana Guzmán 24.04.2019
Cashmere Radio
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Description
“The division of biology and geology or non life and life is not merely a
division that is artificial it is a division that is dangerous.”
Elizabeth Povinelli
Today on the show we do things a little differently. Rather than conducting an
interview, I will introduce a conversation author, film marker and professor of
anthropology at Columbia University, Elizabeth Povinelli accompanied by Ana
Guzmán who is a research fellow and co-curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in
Berlin.
Povinelli is know for tracing the foundations of power and hierarchy of late
liberalism beyond biopower. Biopower, and biopolitics, was most famously written
about by french philosopher, Michel Foucault and has been approached by many
others. InThe History of Sexuality Vol. 1, Foucault describes biopower as “an
explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of
bodies and the contro...
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