I’ll be giving this talk at the University of Kansas on Thursday. It’ll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the 30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth) first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7. The future of the Soviet […]
Posts Tagged ‘biopolitics’
30 Years (or 30,000): Spectral stories of Chernobyl
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, anti-nuclear movement, biopolitics, Chernobyl, Cold War, nuclear power, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, USSR on April 25, 2016 | 4 Comments »
Will the 21st century be Foucauldian-Pollanian?
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged biopolitics, Foucault, Pollan on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Shaka Freeman’s photo posts asking the question “Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?” are hilarious, because the two Mickeys really do look alike and are sometimes difficult to tell apart. For the sake of a bit of entertaining triangulation, I’ve added Foucauldian ecologist and Greenpeace Canada activist Eric Darier to the mix. But the site also […]