Columbia University - The Heyman Center
74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
February 2025
Alter-Being as Permanent Insurrection: Defining and Destroying the 21st Century Counterinsurgency Machine
Drawing from a book in progress tentatively titled “Counterinsurgency Machine,” this lecture unfolds by constructing an analytical and conceptual framework that re-reads a promiscuous political logic that radically exceeds state-centered tactics and strategies of militarized repression. While the term “counterinsurgency” commonly refers to military and police strategies that attempt to neutralize and/or “pacify” (exterminate) militant […]
From Death Wishes to Disability Rights: Vulnerability, Unspeakability, and “The Question of Unworthy Life”
These days, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the potently seductive appeal of fascisms past and present. The Question of Unworthy Life resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people […]
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