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Eric L. Santner

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

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Join B, John, and Emily for a patron-suggested discussion of Eric L. Santner‘s book The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty. The conversation explores the book’s use of the terms sovereignty and flesh as we attempt to parse out its central aims and contributions. How do those concepts relate to biopolitics? What are the multiple uses of ‘flesh’? Is psychoanalysis a useful paradigm in which to think through sovereignty and modernity? We also attempt to put Santner in conversation with thinkers like Franz Fanon and Hortense Spillers, and wonder to what extent we ourselves have been guilty of a paranoid reading of the text. The episode concludes with an advice question regarding some of the concerns that arise when deciding whether and how to continue on with higher education. Thanks to Dana Logan (@popapologist) who requested this episode, and due to their support of us on Patron, got the request to the top of the queue! Support us on Patreon to help us upgrade our recording equipment. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Leah Dion for the intro music, to B for the outro music, and to Bad Infinity for the music between segments. Get the mp3 of the episode here. https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/santner.mp3 Links:  The Royal Remains at University of Chicago Press Review forum for The Royal Remains in the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory Hortense Spillers’ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: Am American Grammar Book

Join B, John, and Emily for a patron-suggested discussion of <a href="https://german.uchicago.edu/faculty/santner" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Eric L. Santner</a>‘s book <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo11270574.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty</a>. The conversation explores the book’s use of the terms sovereignty and flesh as we attempt to parse out its central aims and contributions. How do those concepts relate to biopolitics? What are the multiple uses of ‘flesh’? Is psychoanalysis a useful paradigm in which to think through sovereignty and modernity? We also attempt to put Santner in conversation with thinkers like Franz Fanon and Hortense Spillers, and wonder to what extent we ourselves have been guilty of a paranoid reading of the text. The episode concludes with an advice question regarding some of the concerns that arise when deciding whether and how to continue on with higher education. Thanks to Dana Logan (@<a href="https://twitter.com/Popapologist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">popapologist</a>) who requested this episode, and due to their support of us on Patron, got the request to the top of the queue! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/alwaysalreadypodcast?ty=h" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support us on Patreon</a> to help us upgrade our recording equipment. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-already-podcast-episodes/id879272845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on iTunes</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/AlwaysAlreadyOn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>. RSS feed <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thanks to Leah Dion for the intro music, to B for the outro music, and to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/badinfinity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Infinity</a> for the music between segments. Get the mp3 of the episode <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/santner.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/santner.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/santner.mp3</a> Links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo11270574.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Royal Remains</a> at University of Chicago Press</li> <li><a href="http://www.jcrt.org/archives/12.1/index.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Review forum</a> for The Royal Remains in the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory</li> <li>Hortense Spillers’ <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/464747?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: Am American Grammar Book</a></li></ul>

Ep. 49 – Eric L. Santner on Sovereignty, Flesh, and Biopolitics