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Writing, Starving, and the Biopolitics of Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof鈥檚 Letter From Prison
This workshop focuses on Ulrike Meinhof, the ideological leader of the German leftist militant Red Army Faction ("Baader-Meinhof-Group鈥�) who wrote, during the first phase of her imprisonment, a widely circulated literary text on the physical and mental effects of sensory deprivation. By marking it as the site of contestation of medical, psychiatric, administrative, and political discourses, Meinhof turns the body into a political weapon. Read in light of Germany鈥檚 National Socialist past and in conjunction with the group鈥檚 collective hunger strikes, Meinhof鈥檚 text offers insights into the deployment of biopolitical strategies鈥攂oth on the part of the state and the prisoners. The evocation of cultural memory and recoding of cultural imagery in her writings aimed to mobilize a critical counterpublic against the state鈥檚 exercise of biopower, while reaffirming the prisoner鈥檚 subjectivity and political agency.
Monday 24/10/2016, 5pm, Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27