Biopolitics

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The opening session of the Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Working Group provides a space for discussion of the lasting insights, limitations, and potential applications of Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79. Linking neoliberalism and biopolitics at both the historical and conceptual level, Foucault’s prescient lecture series lays the groundwork for the working group’s concern with the contemporary management of populations through diverse practices of economization, privatization, and financialization.

Hans Sluga is a Professor of Philosophy and William Callison is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  More information can be found at criticaltheory.berkeley.edu.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics | Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics... | Hans Sluga | 9/17/14

Based in the pacific northwest, enereph (@nebula-716736875) weaves introspective sounds into intricate rhythmic layers, creating narrative atmospheres to connect with the innermost cores of feeling. Drawing from cross-genre experimentalism, enereph traverses the outer edges of sound, often pushing into the unknown. After two years focused on composing and performing live sets, enereph is slated to release an EP reflecting their distinct voice on NAGA in June.
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Tracklist:
Howie Lee - Mantra of Buddha Akshobhya 不动佛心咒
IHA - ginhawa ᜄᜒᜈ᜔ᜑᜏ
Seta Loto - L5 S1
Memeshift - Racially Charged
Apu Nanu - The Journal
Laughing Ears - Unstable 变
OHYUNG - now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful
Azu Tiwaline - Medium Time
Dagshenma - Extextext
Looting - Nervous System
FITNESSS | LAG SWITCH - SHRAPNEL
Amazondotcom - Leopard’s Dream
Arexibo - 3
Plebeian - Escarole
Mice - Purification 净化
Ziyiz - Slipd
Color Plus - Nota Huminne
Enayet - Chokkor
T5UMUT5UMU - arc
Undrwght - Ymir
Aylu - groove 4.2
Ashwell Woodland - Alone in Our Living Room (feat. ephemeral objects)
Yara Asmar - 4 is an okay number

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Eustress - Nock


The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Banu Bargu, Response by Judith Butler | 2/27/15

The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi. 

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Michel Feher, Response by Albena Azmanova | 2/27/15

The Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference is the culminating event in a series of working group meetings and presentations on neoliberalism and biopolitics that are also organized by graduate students William Callison and Zachary Manfredi.

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Étienne Balibar | 2/28/15

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference | Bernard Harcourt, Response by Jonathan Simon | 2/27/15

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: 2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

H.D. Reliquary is the first eponymous release from Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish], and finds him returning home to 29 Speedway. The songs sparked during sessions with close collaborators - across 11 pieces, artists such as Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein breathe personality into the record. H.D.R. coaxes beauty from a serrated, raw, yet subdued palette drawn from improvised recordings of trumpet, violin, upright bass, cello, Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

The title references the hard drive as a sacred container for relics, contemplating how digitally archived fragments of one's existence can burn eternally after death. Archives, and in this case recordings, splinter and warp. Some distort what they contain. Some vanish, and others are eternally preserved, immune to deletion. Your information on these digital drives becomes archival shrapnel, the music that survives the remnants of collaboration.

Quick to note the dangers of creating music with ecologically intensive, mass marketed, and unethically trained AI software, Shirken employed bespoke, resource-light machine listening techniques for some of the compositional process. Pieces of recordings were fed into a series of proprietary neural networks, generating MIDI information and audio that reacted to on-the-fly soloing, imaginary sessions between players and algorithms invented posthumously (in post).

Shirken will release H.D. Reliquary alongside a sound installation on April 11. He has performed in spaces such as The New Museum, Pioneer Works, Public Records and Nowadays in New York City; Dripping Music And Arts Festival in New Jersey; La Station in Paris; and Cafe Oto in London. In recent years, he has also been a foundation of the elusive free jazz group Nu Jazz. Where his prior work was geared towards dissociation, H.D. Reliquary invites us to contemplate how our tools for understanding and containing the world fundamentally alter our relationship with it.

Written, recorded, & mixed by Ben Shirken
Greg's Thesis mixed by Jason Park
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @ Schwebung Mastering
Art & Design by Brian Mark
29 Speedway 2025
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Get in your feelings with Brussels party starters HE4RTBROKEN - the beloved Belgian collective that aren't scared of a few tears on the dance floor. Resident djs Liyo, Steff, Munix and ssaliva explore the full range of cathartic music listening together with some kindred-spirited emotive guests. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/hea4rtbroken/episodes/hea4rtbroken-31st-july-2025

HE4RTBROKEN W/ DREESSEN x SSALIVA 310725

A conversation recorded with Banu Bargu in New York on August 10, 2015
http://the-archipelago.net/2015/08/11/banu-bargu-weaponization-of-life-human-shields-and-hunger-strikers/

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