Jaskarah Singh inquired on a previous video as to how Agamben relates to our contemporary times and current crises. Unfortunately, UA-cam keeps deleting his comments, so I couldn't reply to him directly. As such, I just figured it might be easier to make a video on the topic since he seems to have somehow angered our algorithmic A.I. overlords. Hopefully, they do not see him as something of a "homo sacer" themselves. ^_^
I salute you Mr. Cala for taking a stand against the A.I. Overlords, very kind of you to make a video regarding my now non-existent comment. A succinct and informative video regarding Biopower/Biopolitics & Agamben, Cheers!
@@JaskaranSingh-ob8em Hearted and gave your comment a thumbs-up. Hopefully, that will appease our A.I. overlords enough to spare your comment from extinction. ^_^
Thank you for the video. I'm trying to find an example to better understand this concept but Based on the meaning, would it be right to say that in our current society, israel exercises a state of exception as it has revoked residency rights of Palestinians rendering them stateless and subjects them to maltreatment through various policies and practises, essentially reducing them from being bios to zoe?
Funny enough, I found this abstract from the University of California Press, which basically summarizes what you're saying: online.ucpress.edu/caa/article-abstract/2/2/272/25875/The-Palestinian-States-of-Exception-and-Agamben?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Example: Slavery (involuntary servitude) for debt or anything else save as punishment for CRIME is outlawed in the U.S.A. by the 14th Amendment... What happens? Slavery continues in the U.S.A., quite regardless of color yet affecting Africans "disproportionately", CALLED SOMETHING ELSE. Can't snatch a "runaway" back? Make his DEBTS as a "FREE" man brand him forever as a CRIMINAL, who can then be used as state property to extract "labor power" from its concrete living source (the body). Result: Convict labor and "free" industrial labor for a "marginal utility determined" wage on the MARKET for "salable labor from its freely-contracting and terms-negotiating owner" (a theoretically "EQUAL" owner, in the eyes of liberal doctrine and that of the LAW) replace chattel slavery and indefinitely extended indentured labor contracts as the CHEAPEST forms of labor the young and GROWING "Melting Pot"... a plantation now too big for the old rules of the game of USURY and manbreaking to function with MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY in a rapidly industrializing "Civilized World".
The Critique can be applied from any angle. Surprised more don't use it to argue that the West is merely the oldest memetic and genetic ("backwater", dumping ground or hinterland) colony of... The Middle East and Fertile Crescent, ie. the lands of which we are told are the originators of the complex social phenomenon of Civilization itself, as it emerged from Sedentary Agriculture and Late Neolithic Era Urbanization and Stratification.
2:40 we can at least agree that they died because of smoking or obesity, right?? that knowledge alone seems to explain why people avoid smoking and getting obese. and its observable and trackable for everyone everywhere the consequences of smoking and obesity
i get that shame plays a role in people watching their weight or avoiding smoking, but thats hardly a top-down knowledge transfer. thats life in the social. people are kinda cruel.
It could be argued it's top-down in the sense that the knowledge must first be legitimized by credible sources (i.e., typically science, politics, etc.) before it is dispersed through the social system (generally disseminated to us through the mass media/social media channels, which are run by the upper social echelons of society). In The Birth of the Clinic, Foucault draws upon the medical gaze and how it is used to objectify people from a position of power (since the clinic was a power institute found in society itself, similar to other power institutes like schools, prisons, etc.). The important aspect is how power is used to control people through this legitimatized knowledge, swaying us towards a common social consensus where we then keep ourselves under control while also outcasting Others who do not conform and assimilate to the general status quo.
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Jaskarah Singh inquired on a previous video as to how Agamben relates to our contemporary times and current crises. Unfortunately, UA-cam keeps deleting his comments, so I couldn't reply to him directly. As such, I just figured it might be easier to make a video on the topic since he seems to have somehow angered our algorithmic A.I. overlords. Hopefully, they do not see him as something of a "homo sacer" themselves. ^_^
I salute you Mr. Cala for taking a stand against the A.I. Overlords, very kind of you to make a video regarding my now non-existent comment. A succinct and informative video regarding Biopower/Biopolitics & Agamben, Cheers!
@@JaskaranSingh-ob8em Hearted and gave your comment a thumbs-up. Hopefully, that will appease our A.I. overlords enough to spare your comment from extinction. ^_^
Thank you for the video. I'm trying to find an example to better understand this concept but Based on the meaning, would it be right to say that in our current society, israel exercises a state of exception as it has revoked residency rights of Palestinians rendering them stateless and subjects them to maltreatment through various policies and practises, essentially reducing them from being bios to zoe?
Funny enough, I found this abstract from the University of California Press, which basically summarizes what you're saying: online.ucpress.edu/caa/article-abstract/2/2/272/25875/The-Palestinian-States-of-Exception-and-Agamben?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@@MrCJCala oh wow cool
Example: Slavery (involuntary servitude) for debt or anything else save as punishment for CRIME is outlawed in the U.S.A. by the 14th Amendment... What happens? Slavery continues in the U.S.A., quite regardless of color yet affecting Africans "disproportionately", CALLED SOMETHING ELSE. Can't snatch a "runaway" back? Make his DEBTS as a "FREE" man brand him forever as a CRIMINAL, who can then be used as state property to extract "labor power" from its concrete living source (the body). Result: Convict labor and "free" industrial labor for a "marginal utility determined" wage on the MARKET for "salable labor from its freely-contracting and terms-negotiating owner" (a theoretically "EQUAL" owner, in the eyes of liberal doctrine and that of the LAW) replace chattel slavery and indefinitely extended indentured labor contracts as the CHEAPEST forms of labor the young and GROWING "Melting Pot"... a plantation now too big for the old rules of the game of USURY and manbreaking to function with MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY in a rapidly industrializing "Civilized World".
Similar to the cancel culture in media and exclusion in politics (sanctions)
The Critique can be applied from any angle. Surprised more don't use it to argue that the West is merely the oldest memetic and genetic ("backwater", dumping ground or hinterland) colony of... The Middle East and Fertile Crescent, ie. the lands of which we are told are the originators of the complex social phenomenon of Civilization itself, as it emerged from Sedentary Agriculture and Late Neolithic Era Urbanization and Stratification.
2:40 we can at least agree that they died because of smoking or obesity, right?? that knowledge alone seems to explain why people avoid smoking and getting obese. and its observable and trackable for everyone everywhere the consequences of smoking and obesity
i get that shame plays a role in people watching their weight or avoiding smoking, but thats hardly a top-down knowledge transfer. thats life in the social. people are kinda cruel.
no doubt thats exacerbated by media and the expectations they set, but not created there...
It could be argued it's top-down in the sense that the knowledge must first be legitimized by credible sources (i.e., typically science, politics, etc.) before it is dispersed through the social system (generally disseminated to us through the mass media/social media channels, which are run by the upper social echelons of society). In The Birth of the Clinic, Foucault draws upon the medical gaze and how it is used to objectify people from a position of power (since the clinic was a power institute found in society itself, similar to other power institutes like schools, prisons, etc.). The important aspect is how power is used to control people through this legitimatized knowledge, swaying us towards a common social consensus where we then keep ourselves under control while also outcasting Others who do not conform and assimilate to the general status quo.
Agamben is a true Italian hero.
I think David Icke calls this the Totalitarian Tip Toe.
It's a slippery slope, that's for sure. ^_^ Thanks for watching!