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ian alan paul
@elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
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technopolitics and anarchist thought
faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra in barcelona
https://www.ianalanpaul.com
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It's from Deleuze's book on Foucault.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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When power becomes bio-power resistance becomes the power of life, a vital power that cannot be confined within species, en-­ vironment or the paths of a particular diagram. Is not the force that comes from outside a certain idea of Life, a certain vitalism, in which Foucault's thought culminates? Is not life this capacity to resist force? From The Birth of the Clinic on, Foucault admired Bichat for having invented a new vitalism by defining life as the set of those functions which resist death. And for Foucault as much as for Nietzsche, it is in man himself that we must look for the set of forces and functions which resist the death of man. Spinoza said that there was no telling what the human body might achieve, once freed from human discipline. To which Foucault replies that there is no telling what man might achieve 'as a living being ', as the set of forces that resist.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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[Ian Alan Paul] La prueba de la anarquía – Conatus Editorial
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October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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There is a significant delay with the English print edition b/c I broke my contract with the first publisher over issues related to Palestine. Thankfully @pmpress.bsky.social picked it up and will publish it this Spring with a new introduction and afterword: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
The Reticular Society
Ian Alan Paul The Reticular Society theorizes the online colonization of everyday life, diagramming capitalist society’s network form while searching for the means of abolishing it.
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September 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM