Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)

Speaker: Laurent Berlant (University of Chicago)

Join the Gender Studies Network for this discussion with Professor Laurent Berlant.

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Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency) (2007) refers "to the physical wearing out of a population and the deterioration of people in that population that is very nearly a defining condition of their experience and historical existence. The general emphasis of the phrase is on the phenomenon of mass physical attenuation under global/national regimes of capitalist structural subordination and governmentality."

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