Talk
WHEN
November 29, 2012
6:30-8 PM EST
WHERE
19 Washington Square North
Part of "Animal Humans"
WHO
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York
Open to the Public
This lecture will draw upon recent leading figures in biopolitical thought--Roberto Esposito, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and others--to explore the extent to which the distinction between bios (or political form of life) and zoe (or "bare life") that is central to biopolitical thought enables us to think both the commonalities and the differences in the biopolitical plight of human and non-human bodies.
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