Apologies for the long radio silence — job market, dissertating, teaching, etc — things are slowing down and I should get back to producing content at a bit more regular pace again soon.
This is just a quick blurb, a recent state execution in Ohio using a new lethal injection cocktail went horribly awry and was anything but humane and painless.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention as a biopolitical issue.
I’m working through a lot in terms of how I approach and think about biopolitics (what it is, has been, and will become as a theoretical discourse, a political paradigm, and an object of study).
I anticipate a post in the coming weeks about some of what I’ve already figured out.