Violence, Katrina, and the Biopolitics of Disposability

Hurricane Katrina may have reversed the self-imposed silence about the racialized policies of the neo-liberal state in the US - in revealing a vulnerable and destitute segment of the nation's citizenry that conservative politics, at least since Reagan. has demonized. However, in order to fully understand this calamity it is important to understand how the confluence of race and politics in the US is the expression of a new and insidious set of biopolitical strategies. Central to understaudinp this politics is that task articulating its ability to regulate matters of life and death.