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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Book Launch: Lorna Weir

Friday, November 3, 2006

Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics On the Threshold of the Living Subject Lorna Weir Part of Routledge Publishing’s Series: Transformation: Thinking through Feminism Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject (London: Routledge) examines the way mid-twentieth-century medicine unsettled birth as the entry into human status. This book argues that when physicians of [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, November 3, 2006

“This sh– is bananas” edition Driving home in the car listening to the radio, we heard Gwen Stefani’s song about bananas. There’s a bit of swearing in it. Primarily the word “sh–.” You know this because it is edited out. You get the “sh” sound, but nothing else. It is so ridiculous the censoring/editing does [...]

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More From Max Weber

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

From the chapter on the types of legitimate domination: The members of the administrative staff may be bound to obedience to their superior (or superiors) by custom, by affectual ties, by a purely material complex of interests, or by ideal motives. The quality of these motives largely determines the type of domination. Purely material interests [...]

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