The life of this blog began just over a year ago, but unfortunately had a short burst of activity followed by a long silence. This was in part because of my employment situation at the time, in the initial post-phd casual work cycle. I spent a lot of time working on other folks’ research projects and did some teaching as well. But, importantly, I put together a postdoc application on the climate change-human migration nexus. The project I am currently working on is called “The Politics of Hospitality in the Era of Climate Change”. I am now located at the University of Technology in Sydney. I plan on using this blog as a way of exploring initial ideas to do with this project, as well as any other side writings that I decide to pursue.
February 23, 2011 at 10:30 am
What troubles me about Esposito is how he mentions, but then ignores Foucault’s identification of the Soviet Union as the other paradigmatic case beside Nazi Germany. I think this second case is far more interesting because it offers clearer links to ‘The Birth of Biopolitics’ lectures and the kinds of work pursue by Rose and Rabinow …