nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Endnotes1. Precarias a la Deriva. “Political Bodies Vs. Bodies Politic.” Turbulence, issue 5 turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/t-10/bodies2. Imprinted on Roman coins was the head, the caput, of the Caesar. The citizens of the republiccount not as bodies, but as heads: hence ‘per capita’. The chief city, the centre of the mintand seat of the sovereign is the capital. This is also where those that counterfeited money wouldsuffer their capital punishment. As will, at times chaotically fortuitous to the bodies in the street,the head of state himself. However, the guillotine does not push us beyond the logic of the caput,it only shows the contingent relation between the place of the caput and the empirical place holder.The problem is not to kill the king, but to kill the place or function of the king.3. Here we can think of Foucault’s characterisation of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus asan ‘Introduction to the Non-Fascist Life’.4. This seems to be the direction taken by Hardt and Negri in their trilogy consisting ofEmpire, Multitude and Commonwealth.5. Michel Foucault (1984), ‘Truth and Power’ in The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow.New York: Pantheon Books, p. 63.6. Michel Foucault (1998 [orig. 1976]), ‘Right of Death and Power over Life’, part five of TheWill to Knowledge – The History of Sexuality: vol. 1. London: Penguin Books.7. Foucault’s scarecrows. Michel Foucault (1982), ‘The Body of the Condemned’ in MichelFoucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow.Chicago: University of Chicago Press8. Ibid., p.211.9. Liz Mason-Deese’s article on the Argentinian piquetero movement gives a good sense ofwhat the practices and ideas of such immediate struggles might be. ‘The Neighboorhood is theNew Factory’, in Viewpoint Magazine, september 2012, viewpointmag.com/the-neighborhoodis-the-new-factory10. Isaak Rubin (2008 [orig.1928]), Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value. Delhi: Akaar Books,p.8.11. McKenzie Wark (2012), ‘Preoccupying: McKenzie Wark’ in The Occupied Times, August2, 2012. theoccupiedtimes.co.uk/?p=645112. Michel Foucault (1982), ‘The Body of the Condemned’ in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralismand Hermeneutics, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, p.213. Foucault talks of political powers, the power of the state. Here its intertwinementwith the ‘economic’ powers is central.13. Foucault writes: ‘... a power relationship can only be articulated on the basis of two elementswhich are each indispensable if it is really to be a power relationship: that “the other” (theone over whom power is exercised) be thoroughly recognized and maintained to the very end asa person who acts’. Ibid., p.220.14. Franco “Bifo” Berardi (2009), The Soul at Work, Trans. by Francesca Cadel and GuiseppinaMecchia. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).15. JoNina M. Abron (1998), “‘Serving the People’: The Survival Programs of the Black PantherParty.” In Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Reflections and Scholarship, edited by CharlesEarl Jones, pp.177–192. Baltimore: Black Classic Press.16. Huey P. Newton’s assessment in his doctoral dissertation is helpful in mapping out thequestion, but also in measuring a historical and theoretical distance, and the need to undertakedifferent experiments under different circumstances: ‘While the FBI rationalized that it tookthese neutralizing steps against the Black Panther Party in order to curb its violent propensities,the truth is that what the bureau felt most threatening were survival programs providing freebreakfasts to school children and other constructive services. No single feature of the Panthersmade them so feared or disliked by the government; many organizations possessed either a revolutionaryideology, community service, or a willingness to engage in legal struggle to achieve217