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71Biopolitics Is Not (Primarily) About Life: On Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and FamiliesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 27 (3): 322-335. 2013.The emergence of topics such as reprogenetics and genetic testing for hereditary diseases attests to the continued salience of Foucault's analyses of biopolitics. His various discussions pose at least two problems for contemporary appropriation of the work. First, it is unclear what the "life" on which biopolitics operates actually refers to.1 Second, it is unclear how biopolitics relates to the economy, either in the classical form of the family/household (oikos) or in the current form of neoli…Read more
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69Thoughts on the Fetishization of Cyberspeech and the Turn from "Public" to "Private" LawConstellations 10 (1): 113-134. 2003.In this paper I critically examine recent developments in intellectual property law. In particular, from a point of view informed primarily by Marx and Foucault, I study (a) the rhetoric surrounding the Metallica lawsuit against Napster; (b) a pair of conflicting trademark cases surrounding the ownership of a word on the Internet; and (c) the software industry's move to win approval for “shrink-wrap” or “click here” licenses. I conclude that these developments indicate a new form of disciplinary…Read more
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56Overblocking autonomy: The case of mandatory library filtering softwareContinental Philosophy Review 42 (1): 81-100. 2009.In U.S. v. American Library Association (2003), the Supreme Court upheld the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which mandated that libraries receiving federal funding for public Internet access install content-filtering programs on computers which provide that access. These programs analyze incoming content, and block the receipt of objectionable material, in particular pornography. Thus, patrons at public libraries are protected from unintentionally (or intentionally) accessing objectionabl…Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
Poststructuralism |
Critical Theory |