It might seem most sensible for her to wait until copulation is over before she starts to eat him. But the loss of the head does not seem to throw the rest of the male’s body off its sexual stride. Indeed, since the insect head is the seat of some inhibitory nerve centres, it is possible that the female improves the male’s sexual performance by eating his head.*

Natura non facit saltum

Thescientificunderstandingofatomswasyettofullydevelop,buttherewasasenseofthe power offireatthecenterofabsolutedestruction.

Through deregulation, tax loopholes, abatements and holidays, international trade and finance regimes and massive rescue packages of capitals "too big to fail" - all undergirded by the expansion of corporate human rights - states (and their human populations) have repeatedly enacted massive and extravagant programmes to "make capital live" rather than "let it die"

A hallmark of neoliberalism has been an emphasis on minimal government intervention (in certain processes), and Foucault became increasingly interested, among other things, in tracing the long genealogy of this impulse.

In more recent decades we can observe the data-driven construction of ever more "at risk" populations (poor, inner-city youth, the obese, etc.) around whom surveillance is usually heightened and linked to the more constant and proximate possibility of being placed under disciplinary regimes

n situations where they accept the state's claims that they face an existential threa