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Session 3 – 12/6/22
12/6/22 The Making of Indebted Man by Maurizio Lazzarato We discussed Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics and its relation to Lazzarato’s argument about debt as a new paradigm for governance and the subject Shared our direct experiences with debt as a way of subjectification Conflicts within ourselves about how closely the text relates to our lives, […]
Session 2, November 3
We discussed Chapter 2 of Maurizio Lazzarato’s The Making of the Indebted Man, “The Genealogy of Debt and the Debtor.” We spoke about the subjective economy, euphemistically called Credit economy, but really a Debt (and Death) economy. We also spoke about the new emerging figure of the entrepreneur of the self, the individual left to […]
Session 1 – Tuesday, October 11
–We touched on the application of Lazzarato’s arguments to everyday relationships between creditors and debtors –We examined the role Foucault’s Discipline and Punish in Lazzarato’s work, especially in subjectivation vis-à-vis the indebted man –The role of the panopticon in the relation of the individual to the creditor –The “equality of consumption” instituted by the credit […]
General Plan
FIG: Complex Thinking and the Radical Imagination – Fall 2022 General Plan Session 1 – Tue, Oct 11, 5:00-6:00 PM Debt as the Basis of Social Life (Lazzarato, pp.7-35) Session 2 – Fri, Nov 4, 2:00-3:00 PM The Genealogy of Debt and Debtor (Lazzarato, pp.37-88) Session 3 – Tue, Dec 6, 5:00-6:00 PM The Ascendancy […]
Session 3 – May 26, 2022
1. We reviewed the first two parts of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Part One was mainly on the paradox of sovereignty; Part 2 was on the figure of homo sacer, the life that can be taken at will, the person that can be killed but not sacrificed, the life that […]
Session 2 – Friday, April 22
We discussed section 2 of Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Among the themes of our discussion were: The differences between simple biological life and politically qualified life, as it exists in a contradictory relation in the case of homo sacer, as that which is excluded from both the sacred and the profane […]
Session 1 – Thursday, March 24
This semester we are reading Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Last Thursday, we discussed the introduction and Part One, “The Logic od Sovereignty.” In particular, we spoke about the paradox of sovereignty: the sovereign as a borderline concept, being inside and outside of the juridical order. We then introduced some fundamental […]
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Session 1 – Thursday, March 24, 4:00-5:00pm
Complex Thinking and the Radical Imagination Facilitators: Bruno Gullì (History) and Tony Iantosca (English) Reading: Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford University Press, 1998. Session 1 – Thursday, March 24, 4:00-5:00 pm Introduction and Part One: The Logic of Sovereignty (pp. 1-67) Available at Kingsborough Library OneSearch: […]
General plan
Complex Thinking and the Radical Imagination -facilitators: Bruno Gullì and Tony Iantosca (Reading Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life and related material) Part 1: Before the Law Sections to focus on: Potentiality and Law; Form of Law Concepts: Life and bare life; state of exception; logic of inclusion and exclusion Part 2: […]
