The Ungovernable Body — The Complete Corpus
A NotebookLM deep dive across all twelve essays: legibility as governability, and opacity as the freedom worth keeping — the four movements in one listen.
21:11Tag: biopolitics
7 episodes
Sleep Sovereignty — Audio Overview
The colonisation of rest by tracking and optimisation. On sleep scores, the nocturnal imaginary, and reclaiming the unmonitored night.
23:46The Boredom Strike — Audio Overview
Refusing to generate engagement is a political act. On boredom, the attention economy, and withdrawal as a form of resistance.
22:01The Ghost in the City — Audio Overview
Moving through urban space that is always counting you. On transit, sensors, and the vanishing possibility of being an anonymous body in public.
12:40The Gorgon Protocol — Audio Overview
Adversarial aesthetics as refusal: what it means to make yourself unreadable to a classifier, and the uses of the grotesque against machine vision.
22:44The Bio-Age Trap — Audio Overview
Algorithmic underwriting turns your body into an actuarial forecast. On biological age scores and the politics of being made legible to insurers.
21:25The Glass Cage — Audio Overview
Legibility as the precondition of governance: why the demand to be readable is a demand to be governable, and why opacity is the freedom left.
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