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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 […]
