I've taken time, not time given over I hasten to add, to interpret Foucault. And only because of Robinson's The Terms of Order which, I am only guessing, is where I make my methodological presentism (If I am doing that, and not as philosophy as I've emphasised elsewhere, it yet to be other than the ante, the a priori, that I replaces what some would store Lacanian in? I saw the world from the Cambrian mountains, a factory suppling gearboxes for submarines that could deliver nukes, as a child) and so to this: episteme(s) are the dwelling of the military
It is the space that an episteme does not control that becomes the next. I cannot begin know what that means to us. What I do note is how, it is all that is Foucault, this reveals the body of medicine. Today a tweeter remarked on the rebarbitive demand that one announce the reason for being at a doctors to the receptionist amongst the waiting in the room. In military training the role of controlled dysludia is paramount. Psychosis is birth into uniform, the march - of history - the clinic.
Here the Schmitt-Ford (or Zizek stalking Pippin?) gets into a minimal tableau. In Fort Apache Geronimo (and the actor's typecasting is extraordinary) is titled as the medicine man. Space and shaman. The military are heading off-Earth, and most shamen probably had to serve the martial parameters of clan activity.
Military dwelling. The garden.
The Apothecary garden, the volcanic rock hilltops of Arabia to Wales.
Our language gives false witness of matter, it pretends nature of science. Our bodies do not so front when we are ill. Holobionts know the matter. We have found that the space station has produced novel bacteria. Matter does science of itself.
Nietzsche's sarcastic lesson from the school of the military is the question for those popularizing eugenics. In any event it can't deliver, crispr can't do miracles. Yet already it is activated by NICe in the UK in the English NHs. The provision that is imperative is that all but the technicians must waiver immunity from prosecution by the progeny, absolutely including the parents. Biden is opening the USA to the International Criminal Court personnel, and where as it is difficult to enforce moratoria on eugenic attempts it would not be difficult for a legal system to allow the ICC to arrest and try persons if that provision for progeny were set in force in at least one member state?
A digression. Yet who is made stronger?
The point is we need get out of the military culturation of medicine. It remains in that space, at least in speech acts. The Clausewitzian Cardigan Paradigm: (an StD researcher said) we need more cases of variants to find treatments.
The problem with most work from Foucault is that not recognising the orientations of each episteme as ever contracting on the libidinal - it turned out the almost entirely male East German Army was almost entirely regular engaging in homosexual activities - each one - and epi-epistemes, or epicycles - revolving around the historical concern of the time and place. Mary Woostencraft was a fascist (it can be said) for breastfeeding, so as example of liberation that was only to a "natural" motherhood. Dickens was a subscriber, you better believe it. In all pres. method. won't supplant what Foucault does, in English editions (some parallels with Freud and Lacan) at least, not capture: the proto-clinical psychoanalytic so often only vestigial in folktales (not least the Bible) that has ever been the military perpetuating it's offences when medicine could have been the peacemaker. It worked for the first Dutch in Japan.
The battle of medicines I first noted as a thread in The Iliad, one may - I don't know, yet if animal gut, if not human, were used as prophylactics one wonders what's up a "sleeve"? - in Shakespeare's Troillus and Cressida find similar motifs?
These moments are bleak. The desperate poke the corpse of nationalism and spray decay over us all. If they are examples of identity politics then any affiliation beyond inventive anti-exploitative humanity may indicate to some of us at best an indoctrination in reductionism, at worst a failure of fantasy that must be a death of honesty.
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