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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, Professor Sara Brill (Fairfield University) will be presenting her paper, ‘Aristotle, Biopolitics, and the
<i>Iliad</i>.’ The meeting will take place on <b>Friday, April 9 10-11:30am</b> Sydney time (that’s Thursday, April 8 8-9:30pm in the eastern US). The abstract is posted at the end of this email.
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<span style="color:black">Tristan Bradshaw and Ben Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aristotle’s emphasis in Politics 7 on engineering the bodily as well as psychical character of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">citizens recommends comparison with contemporary theories of biopolitics, a comparison Mika Ojakangas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">has drawn with particular clarity (Ojakangas 2016). To be sure, Aristotle’s eugenics legislation is designed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to hold the generation of life under the harness of the political partnership. But it is far from clear that bios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">is the sole, or even main, target here and, as Brooke Holmes has pointed out (Holmes, 2019), we should<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">guard against assuming too quickly the synonymy of the Greek bios and the prefix “bio-.” When, in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">central books of the Politics, Aristotle considers the various forms that collectives of humans may take, he<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">does so precisely in order to observe the differences both between and within kinds, and the work these<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">differences do in forming communities with very particular characters. Aristotle’s emphasis on different<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">kinds of human collectives connects his political theorizing with his zoological research, and with broader<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">cultural tropes that treat vitality in close proximity to vividness. That is to say, while the specific legislation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aristotle designs invites comparison with biopolitical concerns, the end at which this legislation aims is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">determined within a conception of zoˉ eˉ whose political valence has not yet been fully charted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This paper develops a genealogical lens for viewing Aristotle’s thinking about the nature of the human<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">multitude. The examples of political animals Aristotle offers in the History of Animals—bees, wasps, ants,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and cranes (1.1.487b33)—figure prominently in the Iliad’s depictions of Achaean and Trojan forces, who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">are likened to swarms and flocks and herds of all kinds. When we examine the imagery Homer employs to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">depict the actions of the collective Achaean and Trojan forces, we encounter an iconography of shared life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that profoundly shaped how Aristotle thinks about the work of the polis. My primary claim is that Aristotle’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">sense of the sharing of the perception of justice as the common deed that comprises human political life is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">informed by an Iliadic model, the harnessing of aisthesis and logos alike for the pursuit of a common task.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And, as with Aristotle, the root of this model is found in the very conception of living as it is accomplished<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">by a variety of animal kinds. In both cases, living emerges as a collectively pursued enterprise requiring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">fluid combinations of coalescences and diffusions of force and capacity, a variety of “organizations” in a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">very particular sense. Prior to the reduction of people to things so powerfully observed by Simone Weil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">armies have become packs and swarms, heroes have become walls and rivers, peoples have become<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">sand and stars. I aim, then, to trace the model of political power—as the power to generate what Homer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">calls the “boundless people [demos apeiron]” (24.776)—that emerges from out of the animal imagery for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">human collective action employed throughout the Iliad, in order to illuminate the conception of zoe that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">undergirds Aristotle’s understanding of the formation of people and that complicates our assessment of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“biopolitical” character of Aristotle’s thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D4D4D">Tristan Bradshaw</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D4D4D"> <br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network <br>
<b>The University of Sydney<br>
</b>Department of Classics and Ancient History<b> <br>
</b>School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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