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Venereal Disease Helps the Enemy: Biopower at WarAdam Flynn@Threadbare September 30th, 2011 1
Contents Measurement, power, and fuck-ups States and war: a very short introduction The health of nations Total war and its discontents Aftermaths 2
Measurement, power, and fuck-ups 3
Seeing like a state Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision. The great advantage of such tunnel vision is that it brings into sharp focus certain limited aspects of an otherwise far more complex and unwieldy reality.  This very simplification, in turn, makes the phenomenon at the center of the field of vision more legible and hence more susceptible to careful measurement and calculation. James C. Scott,Seeing Like a State 4
Metis The destruction of metis and its replacement by standardized formulas legible only from the center is virtually inscribed in the activities of both the state and large-scale bureaucratic capitalism.  As a ‘project,’ it is the object of constant initiatives which are never entirely successful, for no forms of production or social life can be made to work by formulas alone—that is, without metis. The logic animating the project, however, is one of control and appropriation. Local knowledge, because it is dispersed and relatively autonomous, is all but un-appropriable.  5
States have been working on this for a while. Would it not be a great satisfaction to the king to know at a designated moment every year the number of his subjects, in total and by region, with all the resources, wealth & poverty of each place; [the number] of his nobility and ecclesiastics of all kinds, of men of the robe, of Catholics and of those of the other religion, all separated according to the place of their residence? [Would it not be] a useful and necessary pleasure for him to be able, in his own office, to review in an hour's time the present and past condition of a great realm of which he is the head, and be able himself to know with certitude in what consists his grandeur, his wealth, and his strengths? Marquis de Vauban, proposing an annual census to Louis XIV in 1686 6
States and war: a very short introduction 7
States are strange, especially nation-states. An entity separate from either the people or the current rulers Identified with the nation  Nation: an imagined community (replaces actual community), defined by: common language (sometimes forced on it.) shared history (sometimes fabricated.) one cultural and ethic identity (actually many.) Worthiness judged by outcome of struggle with other nation-states Views the health and well-being of “the people” as a responsibility 8
Clausewitzian trinity I 9
Clausewitzian trinity II 10
Transformations of War From this moment until such time as its enemies shall have been driven from the soil of the Republic, all Frenchmen are in permanent requisition for the services of the armies.  The young men shall fight; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn old lint into linen; the old men shall betake themselves to the public squares in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic. –French declaration of Levee en Masse, 1793 11
The health of nations 12
Health of nations 13 Eventually, it seems evident, a general system, whether private or public, whereby all personal facts, biological and mental, normal and morbid, are duly and systematically registered, must become inevitable if we are to have a real guide as to those persons who are most fit, or most unfit to carry on the race. Havelock Ellis, The Task of Social Hygiene We realize that with varying wisdom man has learned to shape nature to his needs and desires. Only with his own nature has he refrained from tampering. Yet the course of civilization and any sudden change for better or worse in the human type obviously depend upon consciously or unconsciously directed modifications. Probably there is no more unprofitable assumption than that of the unalterability of human nature… Robert Yerkes,  Chimpanzees: a Laboratory Colony
A couple of exemplars 14 Robert Yerkes Havelock Ellis
Yerkes? The National Research Council initiates its sex research program, (USA, 1920s) 15
Total war and its discontents 16
Total war There is another more obvious difference from 1914. The whole of the warring nations are engaged, not only soldiers, but the entire population, men, women and children. The fronts are everywhere to be seen. The trenches are dug in the towns and streets. Every village is fortified. Every road is barred. The front line runs through the factories. The workmen are soldiers with different weapons but the same courage. Winston Churchill 17
Prostitution, Prophylaxis, and VD 18
Weimar Germany: birthplace of modern kink 19
Varying approaches to troop health 20
Guilt 21
More guilt 22
Modernist design 23
Misogyny and distrust of women as a means of prevention 24
Dali goes to war, sort of. 25
Varying approaches to troop health 26
Race 27
Women 28
Women’s work? 29
Reflections on manhood 30
Aftermaths 31
Aftermath(s) “The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time.” 32
Thanks Comments and feedback encouraged. Adam Flynn adamwflynn@gmail.com @Threadbare 33

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Venereal Disease Helps the Enemy: Biopower at War

  • 1. Venereal Disease Helps the Enemy: Biopower at WarAdam Flynn@Threadbare September 30th, 2011 1
  • 2. Contents Measurement, power, and fuck-ups States and war: a very short introduction The health of nations Total war and its discontents Aftermaths 2
  • 4. Seeing like a state Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision. The great advantage of such tunnel vision is that it brings into sharp focus certain limited aspects of an otherwise far more complex and unwieldy reality. This very simplification, in turn, makes the phenomenon at the center of the field of vision more legible and hence more susceptible to careful measurement and calculation. James C. Scott,Seeing Like a State 4
  • 5. Metis The destruction of metis and its replacement by standardized formulas legible only from the center is virtually inscribed in the activities of both the state and large-scale bureaucratic capitalism. As a ‘project,’ it is the object of constant initiatives which are never entirely successful, for no forms of production or social life can be made to work by formulas alone—that is, without metis. The logic animating the project, however, is one of control and appropriation. Local knowledge, because it is dispersed and relatively autonomous, is all but un-appropriable. 5
  • 6. States have been working on this for a while. Would it not be a great satisfaction to the king to know at a designated moment every year the number of his subjects, in total and by region, with all the resources, wealth & poverty of each place; [the number] of his nobility and ecclesiastics of all kinds, of men of the robe, of Catholics and of those of the other religion, all separated according to the place of their residence? [Would it not be] a useful and necessary pleasure for him to be able, in his own office, to review in an hour's time the present and past condition of a great realm of which he is the head, and be able himself to know with certitude in what consists his grandeur, his wealth, and his strengths? Marquis de Vauban, proposing an annual census to Louis XIV in 1686 6
  • 7. States and war: a very short introduction 7
  • 8. States are strange, especially nation-states. An entity separate from either the people or the current rulers Identified with the nation Nation: an imagined community (replaces actual community), defined by: common language (sometimes forced on it.) shared history (sometimes fabricated.) one cultural and ethic identity (actually many.) Worthiness judged by outcome of struggle with other nation-states Views the health and well-being of “the people” as a responsibility 8
  • 11. Transformations of War From this moment until such time as its enemies shall have been driven from the soil of the Republic, all Frenchmen are in permanent requisition for the services of the armies. The young men shall fight; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn old lint into linen; the old men shall betake themselves to the public squares in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic. –French declaration of Levee en Masse, 1793 11
  • 12. The health of nations 12
  • 13. Health of nations 13 Eventually, it seems evident, a general system, whether private or public, whereby all personal facts, biological and mental, normal and morbid, are duly and systematically registered, must become inevitable if we are to have a real guide as to those persons who are most fit, or most unfit to carry on the race. Havelock Ellis, The Task of Social Hygiene We realize that with varying wisdom man has learned to shape nature to his needs and desires. Only with his own nature has he refrained from tampering. Yet the course of civilization and any sudden change for better or worse in the human type obviously depend upon consciously or unconsciously directed modifications. Probably there is no more unprofitable assumption than that of the unalterability of human nature… Robert Yerkes, Chimpanzees: a Laboratory Colony
  • 14. A couple of exemplars 14 Robert Yerkes Havelock Ellis
  • 15. Yerkes? The National Research Council initiates its sex research program, (USA, 1920s) 15
  • 16. Total war and its discontents 16
  • 17. Total war There is another more obvious difference from 1914. The whole of the warring nations are engaged, not only soldiers, but the entire population, men, women and children. The fronts are everywhere to be seen. The trenches are dug in the towns and streets. Every village is fortified. Every road is barred. The front line runs through the factories. The workmen are soldiers with different weapons but the same courage. Winston Churchill 17
  • 19. Weimar Germany: birthplace of modern kink 19
  • 20. Varying approaches to troop health 20
  • 24. Misogyny and distrust of women as a means of prevention 24
  • 25. Dali goes to war, sort of. 25
  • 26. Varying approaches to troop health 26
  • 32. Aftermath(s) “The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time.” 32
  • 33. Thanks Comments and feedback encouraged. Adam Flynn adamwflynn@gmail.com @Threadbare 33