Foucault and Friends
The capacity to decide upon the state of exception is the definition Agamben gives for this figure
Who is the sovereign?
The name of the school in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
What is Hailsham?
"With the grain" and "against the grain" readings are metaphors taken from this profession
What is carpentry/woodworking?
This is the name of Jeremy Bentham's all-seeing prison
What is the panopticon?
The last US state Professor Hollingshead lived in before moving to Canada
What is New Jersey?
The concept of "necropolitics" originates with this theorist
Who is Achille Mbembe?
The final words of Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" are written in this language
What is German?
This 18th-Century literary protagonist lends his name to the genre of the Robinsonade.
Who is Robinson Crusoe?
In addition to psychoanalysis, this is the other intellectual movement Foucault is critiquing in the opening pages of The History of Sexuality
What is Marxism?
Professor Hollingshead is afflicted with this autoimmune condition (that he likes to use to talk about biopolitics)
What is diabetes (or Type 1 diabetes)?
Foucault gives this name to the idea that sexuality is becoming increasingly liberated
What is the repressive hypothesis?
The Great Plague of London began in this year
What is 1665?
This was the slogan of AIDS activists in the 1980s and 1990s
What is "Silence=Death"?
For Agamben, this totalizing institution is the "telos" of modernity.
What is the concentration camp?
This CNN reporter is exemplary in performing what Pooja Rangan calls "bare liveness"
Who is Anderson Cooper?
According to this late theorist, Foucault and Friends "encourage a militaristic and melodramatic view of agency"
Who is Lauren Berlant?
The (abbreviated) name of Journal of the Plague Year's narrator
DAILY DOUBLE
The United States has declared a state of emergency every year since this year
What is intersectionality?
Dr. Hollingshead was born and Michel Foucault died in this year
When is 1984
This form of power is described by Foucault as "a right of seizure: of things, time, bodies, and ultimately life itself"
What is sovereign power?
From the Greek compound of "good" and "speech," this is one of Kathy H's favorite rhetorical moves
This is the name the US military gives to a mobile, temporary state of exception that authorizes extrajuridical assassination overseas
What is a kill box?
Puar's and Weheliye's theory of "assemblages" derives from the work of this 20th Century French philosopher
Who is Gilles Deleuze?
DAILY DOUBLE
The frontispiece for one of the most famous works of Western political philosophy features this image