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Face recognition and the Islamic niqab

Der Spiegel reports of another “Veiled Woman Removed From Bus in Denmark“:
“For Amina Farah Suleiman, it was the fourth time in a few months that she has been kicked off a bus in the harbor city of Odense. Her Islamic niqab only had a small opening for the eyes, and the driver refused to accept [...]

Steven Shaviro on Biopolitics

Reviewing Roberto Esposito’s Bios, Steven Shaviro of The Pinocchio Theory gives an excellent two-fold argument for how biopolitics scholarship generally fails to adequately reflect on global shifts in medical and economic practices since Foucault first put forth the theory in the late 70s/early 80s.
It is telling that Esposito says nothing whatsoever about the ways in [...]

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