Guest contribution by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: "A critical reflection on the intersection between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the age of #biopower"

I was interested in this topic because it puts questions about ethics for artificial intelligence in a completely new light for me. But let's now let Professor Ochoa have his say.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/01/bioethik-und-biopolitik-im-zeitalter-der-biomacht/

There is an orange translate button "Google Translator>>" on the bottom left of my page.

“The sentimental #politics of life helps illuminate how #biopower is so effective at creating atmospheres in which people come to identify with the needs of the state and #capitalism as their own best interests.”

—Kyla Schuller, The #Biopolitics of Feeling, Introduction: Sentimental Biopower

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About #consent:
"The Gortyn law code (6th century BCE) stipulates that in cases of "he said, she said" involving slaves, the female slave is believed over whoever rapes her. This is, of course, intended to protect her owner's property (her)."
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https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/08/consent-and-rape-is-it-modern-thing-no_78.html by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @kataplexis #slavery #household #property #rape #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour #family

“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love… It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between #care and #domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is, to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #history #learning #learn #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour

“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love… It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between #care and #domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is, to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour

“What makes the Roman Law conception of property - the basis of almost all legal systems today - unique is that the responsibility to care and share is reduced to a minimum, or even eliminated entirely. In Roman Law there are three basic rights related to possession: usus (the right to use), fructus (the right to enjoy the products of a property, for instance the fruit of a tree), and abusus (the right to damage or destroy). If one has only the first two rights, this is referred to as usufruct, and is not considered true possession under the law. The defining feature of true legal #property then, is that one has the option not taking care of it, or even destroying it at will.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family #familia #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honor

"The most important thing we learned from #Foucault is that the living (and therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics. There is no politics that is not a politics of bodies."
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Paul B. #Preciado #quotes #bioPower #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory

The Malleus Maleficarum is the best known treatise on #witchcraft.
Factors stimulating widespread use:
Between 1487 and 1520, twenty editions of the Malleus Maleficarum were published, and another sixteen between 1574 and 1669. The Malleus Maleficarum was able to spread throughout Europe rapidly in the late 15th and at the beginning of the 16th century due to the innovation of the printing press in the middle of the 15th century by Johannes #Gutenberg. The invention of #printing some thirty years before the first publication of the Malleus Maleficarum instigated the fervor of witch hunting."
Wikipedia; text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0
#witchHunt #feminisms #patriarchy #bioPower

On this #SilentSunday i want to
boost a great book on #Silence.
"HumAnimal: Race, Law, Language" by #KalpanaRahitaSeshadri is eye opening in the way silence can be used to neutralize power. #philosphy #language #Derrida #Agamben #BIopower #Racism

https://www.amazon.com/HumAnimal-Race-Law-Language-Posthumanities/dp/0816677891

A big part of #deviantmatter my second monograph, is writing a #history of #hygiene as a diffuse state affect and aesthetic. Writing about atmospheres is hard! But also writing about state archives is brutally dull. Then I realized that what was blocking my writing was exactly the problem that I was trying to describe: that the diffusion of a disciplinary aesthetic and affect is the source of its power. #historians #literature #biopower #c19 #food #foodstudies #race

Rainbow over my place of learning today 🌈 . A few hours on #Foucault #biopower and #anatomopolitics before returning to #CDBroad and psychical research tonight. #philosophy

Better introduce myself:

#histodons - Interested in #histsci #histmed #histtech #Animals #multispecies and #biopower

I've written on ideas of life and mind in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women medical scientists in the late C19th, early C20th race science, and changing regimes of pet care in the inter-war period (mainly focused on Britain)

Currently thinking about entanglements of lab animals and logistics after WWII

Looking forward to (re-)connecting!

You guyzzz, I can't with this piece. It's so good. Read it.
https://crimethinc.com/2020/02/10/the-operation-succeeded-but-the-patient-died-biopower-and-the-nightmare-of-a-totally-managed-society
#Crimethinc #police #biopower #cancer