WGS337H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Visible Minority, Influenza Vaccine, Civil Death
7 Nov 2017
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Lecture 4 notes necropolitics and the prison-industrial complex. Gordon reading: the pic is not a distinctly north american phenomenon, 13th ammendment has a loophole slavery is a crime except towards those that are criminalized. Super-exploitation of prison labour integrally linked to the globalisation of capital: pic accomplishes two interrelated vanishing acts, disappears poor people of colour, conceals from public the racialized capitalism that underwrites and drives system. Anti-blackness and the pic: the system was built through slavery and on the backs of black"s labour, the chains of slavery are connected to the chains of incarceration, the pic extends past the walls of the prison. Intended to maximize bodily performances of population: foucault, history of sexuality, concerned with the biological processes of the collective social body from sexuality to reproduction, ex. Necropolitics: mbembe, necropolitics, technologies of control that subject life to the power of death and decay, refers both to social and material death, ex.
