2011

81: Arizona Biopower

This issue of Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (http://bad.eserver.org/) provides insight into the acts of state-sponsored biopower in the Arizona-México borderlands.

Class Warfarin: Hemorrhaging

Joseph Natoli
Like the poisoned rat, we can't make a connection between our decline and our appetites, or, more precisely, what we've been fed that's labeled 'fair and balanced" and we've greedily consumed.

Youth in the Era of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux
Increasingly viewed as yet another social burden, youth are no longer included in a discourse about the promise of a better future. Instead they are now considered part of a disposable population whose presence threatens to recall repressed collective memories of adult responsibility.

Letter from Cairo: Spirit of Revolution and Cartoon Signs in Tahrir Square

I'm so glad I lived to witness this great moment in our history and the history of the whole world, and yet more, to be part of it. The signs people drew at Tahrir Square are simple, but so meaningful.

Class Warfarin: Autopsy

 

Cyber-liberty, Democracy and the Arab Psyche

 

speciousness of origin

The postmodern world has slowly begun to grapple with the realization that there is in fact `no metaposition,' no Archimedean point, on which to enjoy the insights of ultimate objectivity. The mesh describes the interconnectedness of not only living things, but also non-living things, deconstructing the crucial, ultimately political, distinction between inside and outside.

Class Warfarin:Antidote

In the end, this is a war first with ourselves. As long as we refuse to admit that we are not self-creating nor free to choose to be free to choose, this will be a war we cannot identify, a war without a label. And as long as both the poison and the antidote remain without labels, the wealth of the few will increase as will the distress of the many.

Three Close Encounters with Daniel Ellsberg

Trudy Reagan, Graphic @ Trudy Myrrh Reagan 2004, 2011
 

Word of Click: Social Networking and the Arab Spring Revolutions