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Cryptomnesia: Response to Kathleen Biddick

Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 15–26)

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TitleCryptomnesia
SubtitleResponse to Kathleen Biddick
ContributorEileen Joy(author)
Anna Klosowska (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.04
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightJoy, Eileen; Klosowska, Anna
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2013-01-17
Long abstractIn Kathleen Biddick’s longer (as yet unpublished) essay, from which her contribution to this volume is “ Morse-Coded,” she writes:[E]ntrapped by his periodization, Foucault puzzled over a historical aporia: ‘How can the power of death, the function of death, be exercised in a political system centered upon biopower?’ Nazism, with its untimely unleashing of the ‘old sovereign power to take life’ concomitant with the most intense forms of biopower . . . presented Foucault with an anguishing temporal paradox.1Given the incoherence between Foucault’s narrative of how sovereignty (“the power to take life or let live”) was supersed-ed by biopolitics (“to foster life or to disallow it”), and actual modern history ( the merger of biopolitics and sovereignty in Nazism, for example), Foucault acknowledged something that we all struggle against as we use his concepts—the narratives of where and how modernity emerges into sight occlude as much as they explain.
Page rangepp. 15–26
Print length12 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)