Flint water crisis

What do we know

• Share what we as a class have read, watched, heard, or discussed about the unfolding situation

Biopower

• Who was privileged and who was sacrificed?
  • From a State/Gov’t what is the crisis achieving consciously or subconsciously

Children’s lives/health were impacted

“When I say ‘killing,’ I obviously do not mean simply murder as such, but also every form of indirect murder: the fact of exposing someone to death, increasing the risk of death for some people, or, quite simply, political death, expulsion, rejection, and so on.” –pg. 256

Who lives and who dies? And, do we determine this? If so, who gets to determine this and how?

Can we make any tentative connections between Foucault’s “letting die,” indirect murder, and exposure to potentially deadly substances with lasting mental developmental and health issues that the government may have a hand in?

“It is the power to ‘make’ live and ‘let’ die” –pg. 241

“Making live and letting die.”–pg. 247

“What must live and what must die.”–pg. 254

How can the power of death, the function of death, be exercised in a political system centered upon biopower? –pg. 254

New revelations uncovered in Flint

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/revelations-flint-michigan-water-crisis-36623059

EPA faces fallout

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/464013711/epa-faces-fallout-from-flint-mich-water-crisis