A Community of Events

Question 1

Biopolitics

Answer 1

entails the governance of populations as biological entities, with an emphasis on optimizing their health, productivity, and reproductive capacities in manners conducive to broader political and economic objectives.

Question 2

Language games

Answer 2

referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the “rule” of the “game” being played.

Question 3

Key takeaways from essay

Answer 3

• Who has authority? And who has literary authority?
• Ranciere: “Literary comm exists as soon as people gather by the power of certain words”
• Language Games and the Power of words
• Language games = referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the “rule” of the “game” being played.
• Ranciere links language games to a literary community
• Does Q-anaon qualify as a literary community?
• There’s a standard of truth, and not all communities are equal
• Those who are part of community, identity with said community by what they represent

Question 4

Literature has different relation to events than say history

Answer 4

• History is linear
• Classic novels arranges evens so that hierarchies of lives are arranged
• In Madame Bovary Flaubert the impersonal takes place
• We experience micro events as something that happens to us
• As Emma does in Madame Bouvary
• In Lit singularity is subordinated to universality

Question 5

Pandemic

Answer 5

• People spoke of it as an event
   But what made it an event?
   Communities emerged during the pandemic
   Gatherings were prohibited
  o There was a change in the nature of gatherings
   Certain words did enjoy power during the pandemic
  o Contagious, illness,
  o Pandemic community
   Communities chose not to gather due to the power of certain words
  o Were those communities negative or positive? The way they changed during the pandemic
  o In person communities moves to online communities
   Power of words influenced everyone’s behavior during the pandemic
   Literary community online was constantly engaged
   An event is an event because it’s an event for someone (Italian philology Carlo Diano)
   During the pandemic it was near impossible to treat the event impersonally