Jaskarah Singh inquired on a previous video as to how Agamben relates to our contemporary times and current crises. Unfortunately, KZread 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. ^_^

@JaskaranSingh-ob8em

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@MrCJCala

2 жыл бұрын

@@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. ^_^

Agamben is a true Italian hero.

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?

@MrCJCala

Жыл бұрын

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

@ishasharma6079

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCJCala oh wow cool

Similar to the cancel culture in media and exclusion in politics (sanctions)

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

@realdanrusso

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@realdanrusso

2 жыл бұрын

no doubt thats exacerbated by media and the expectations they set, but not created there...

@MrCJCala

2 жыл бұрын

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.

I think David Icke calls this the Totalitarian Tip Toe.

@MrCJCala

2 жыл бұрын

It's a slippery slope, that's for sure. ^_^ Thanks for watching!