Greg Bird
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Bird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0963-6545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Is Quarantine: Cruise Ships, Lepers and the Temptation of Christ
This paper uses the three main etymological sources of quarantine (the 14th-century Venetian practice of isolating ships, Moses’s Law Concerning Leprosy, and the Temptation of Christ) as heuristic devices to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the division of life between vital lives and biological labourers. I trace this phenomenon through the first two stages of this pandemic. The first stage took place roughly from early February…
Biomedical Apparatuses or Conviviality
Greg Bird shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. On February 26, 2020 Giorgio Agamben criticized the Italian Government’s “frantic, irrational, and absolutely unwarranted” declaration of a state of emergency (2020a). Questioning the severity of the danger, he argued that there were two underlying factors explaining the government’s “disproportionate response”: the state of exception has become the “normal gover…
Our Covid Conjuncture: Critical Essays on the Pandemic
On the second weekend of March 2020, just before the Canada-wide lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic was made official, we realized that we needed to take a snapshot of rapid changes that were unfolding around us The biopolitical dimensions of public health and governmental responses to the pandemic were already clear, so we contacted Canadian-based scholars working in field of biopolitics to contribute short, rapid-response essays on the first, e…
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
Cultural and Biological Immunization: A Biopolitical Analysis of Immigration Apparatuses
In the following paper, we draw from Roberto Esposito's and Donna Haraway's theories of immunity to examine immigration apparatuses. The immunization perspective provides new ways of examining how immigration apparatuses function. In particular, we explore how they serve the purpose of biologically and culturally immunizing a nation from being contaminated by "dangerous" populations. We begin by briefly outlining Esposito's and Haraway's theories…
Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
Roberto Esposito's Deontological Communal Contract
This article underlines and draws attention to critical insights that Esposito makes regarding the prospects of rethinking community in a globalized world. Alongside Agamben and Nancy, Esposito challenges the property prejudice found in mainstream models of community. In identity politics, collective identity is converted into a form of communal property. Borders, sovereign territories, and exclusive rights are fiercely defended in the name of co…
Community, Immunity, and the Properan Introduction to the Political Theory of Roberto Esposito
It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis. Intimately bound up with this sense
What is Phenomenological Sociology Again
Nancy responds to blanchot
Community, Immunity, and the Properan Introduction to the Political Theory of Roberto Esposito
It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis. Intimately bound up with this sense
What is Phenomenological Sociology Again
Roberto Esposito's Deontological Communal Contract
This article underlines and draws attention to critical insights that Esposito makes regarding the prospects of rethinking community in a globalized world. Alongside Agamben and Nancy, Esposito challenges the property prejudice found in mainstream models of community. In identity politics, collective identity is converted into a form of communal property. Borders, sovereign territories, and exclusive rights are fiercely defended in the name of co…
Nancy responds to blanchot
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
Cultural and Biological Immunization: A Biopolitical Analysis of Immigration Apparatuses
In the following paper, we draw from Roberto Esposito's and Donna Haraway's theories of immunity to examine immigration apparatuses. The immunization perspective provides new ways of examining how immigration apparatuses function. In particular, we explore how they serve the purpose of biologically and culturally immunizing a nation from being contaminated by "dangerous" populations. We begin by briefly outlining Esposito's and Haraway's theories…
Nancy responds to blanchot
What is Phenomenological Sociology Again
Roberto Esposito's Deontological Communal Contract
This article underlines and draws attention to critical insights that Esposito makes regarding the prospects of rethinking community in a globalized world. Alongside Agamben and Nancy, Esposito challenges the property prejudice found in mainstream models of community. In identity politics, collective identity is converted into a form of communal property. Borders, sovereign territories, and exclusive rights are fiercely defended in the name of co…
Community, Immunity, and the Properan Introduction to the Political Theory of Roberto Esposito
It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis. Intimately bound up with this sense
Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
Cultural and Biological Immunization: A Biopolitical Analysis of Immigration Apparatuses
In the following paper, we draw from Roberto Esposito's and Donna Haraway's theories of immunity to examine immigration apparatuses. The immunization perspective provides new ways of examining how immigration apparatuses function. In particular, we explore how they serve the purpose of biologically and culturally immunizing a nation from being contaminated by "dangerous" populations. We begin by briefly outlining Esposito's and Haraway's theories…
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
What Is Quarantine: Cruise Ships, Lepers and the Temptation of Christ
This paper uses the three main etymological sources of quarantine (the 14th-century Venetian practice of isolating ships, Moses’s Law Concerning Leprosy, and the Temptation of Christ) as heuristic devices to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the division of life between vital lives and biological labourers. I trace this phenomenon through the first two stages of this pandemic. The first stage took place roughly from early February…
Biomedical Apparatuses or Conviviality
Greg Bird shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. On February 26, 2020 Giorgio Agamben criticized the Italian Government’s “frantic, irrational, and absolutely unwarranted” declaration of a state of emergency (2020a). Questioning the severity of the danger, he argued that there were two underlying factors explaining the government’s “disproportionate response”: the state of exception has become the “normal gover…
Our Covid Conjuncture: Critical Essays on the Pandemic
On the second weekend of March 2020, just before the Canada-wide lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic was made official, we realized that we needed to take a snapshot of rapid changes that were unfolding around us The biopolitical dimensions of public health and governmental responses to the pandemic were already clear, so we contacted Canadian-based scholars working in field of biopolitics to contribute short, rapid-response essays on the first, e…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)