Destituent Power and the Reclamation of the Imagination with Serene Richards

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Biopolitics as a System of Thought: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/biopolitics-as-a-system-of-thought-9781350412095/

In this LEPHT HAND interview, we explore the themes of destituent power and political imagination in Serene Richards' Biopolitics as a System of Thought, situating her ideas within the frameworks of thinkers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Pierre Legendre. Richards examines how "Smart Being" operates within a techno-capitalist logic that prioritizes survival over transformative potential, echoing Legendre's critiques of societal structures and Nancy's reflections on "the abyss" and metaphysical ungrounding.

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Pierre Legendre, "The Dogmatic Value of Aesthetics": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534640802416900

Nancy's "Beyond the Abyss": https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/before-the-abyss

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