GS231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Perpetual War, Tiqqun, Biopolitics
Document Summary
The need to limit + control war. Discover the population + life-making power as government. Permanent war, + civil war as the logic of waging peace". Internal domestic space wartime [war + its others] War is risky + is a risk management tool. Networked effects + cascading effects (de-bounded ar) We are all actors on in a global civil war. Violence + war powers are ours, not theirs. Ways of war, ways of life, ways of rule. Tends to presume stable agents/actors (i. e, sovereign nation-state) as the only legal + legitimate user of violence + decider" of the state of exception (25) This also presumes what hardt + negri would call an outdated conception of geopolitics, war, and security . Today"s war system is perpetual + permanent in defence of empire. The system of global order (built on fomenting disorder) after the cold war. These old reason are still used but not held in the same importance.
