Thursday, March 31, 2005
(6:38 AM) | Old - Doug Johnson:
Home for the heteronomous | "Get a job — and some human rights!"
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Home for the heteronomous | "Get a job — and some human rights!" Thursday, March 31, 2005(6:38 AM) | Old - Doug Johnson: Biopower and the American LeftThe article by Santner Adam points us to is quite good. My only quibble is with the attempt to make Republicans and the religious right out to be the only boogeymen with respect to Biopower, especially in this case. Terri's husband and the American left are just as much involved in the sham. In this case, the use of a cabal of medical experts to deem someone non sentient so as to justify a refusal to feed her, to call feeding her artificial (and remember my comments from a post below - NPR reports that she can be fed without a feeding tube, it just takes a long time) are just as assuredly biopolitical interventions that are entirely homologous to other attempts to isolate a form of life beyond the protection of law, a bare life that can be allowed to wither on the vine or live at the whim of some system appointed gaurdian. |
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