Conway

 We are in an age that is increasingly defined by its drive to

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isolate define and optimize life, we are told that we are among the blessed if we

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represent our age in this way and if not we risk the salvation of all. We must

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accord with this liturgy of optimization or face the slow biopolitical liquidation that sits on the other side

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of even the most minute of disobediences. We live in the consistent calculation of

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risk and security.  In the tradition of Tiquin, Agamben

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and Foucault, Serene Richards is less interested in optimizing this optimization of life, like many priests of

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technology, but in showing that the innocent malignance of these systems needed a very specific form of thought

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to hold sway over the entire interpretability of our world,

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biopolitics, for Richards, must be understood as a system of thought.