Rick Dolphijn - “While you were at Home, Confined”: A Parasitology
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Talk by Dr Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University) on the need for a revised, post-COVID-19 conception of governmentality.
About this event
What happened to life, to politics, to surveillance, since the arrival of the coronavirus to our cities? In this meditation the aim is to see in what way Foucault’s idea of governmentality needs to be revised according to these post-2020 conditions. Preciado claims that Foucault taught us that “the living (therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics”. So how should we understand the politics of the parasite in our times?
Dr. Rick Dolphijn is an associate professor at Media and Culture Studies at Utrech University, with an interest in transdisciplinary research at large. He published widely on continental philosophy (Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres) and the contemporary arts. He studies posthumanism, new materialism, material culture (food studies), and ecology. His new monograph, The Philosophy of Matter: a Meditation, recently appeared with Bloomsbury Academic. He is a PI in two international research projects: Food2Gather (HERA funded 2019-2022) and IMAGINE (Norwegian Research Council 2021-2024).
