FROM NORMALIZATION TO CUSTOMIZATION

The Biopolitics of development. Reading MF in the postcolonial present

Sandro Meezadra, Jualian Reid, and Ranabir Samaddar

C 1. Intro: Reading F in the Postcolonial present

1. But while Fs thought has been inspirational for the interrogation of colonial biopolitics, a well as
governmental rationalities concerned with development in postcolonial era, his works have too often
failed to inspire studies of the forms of political subjectivity that such regimes of power incite.

2 how this degraded view of political subjectivity came about, particularly within the framework of
the discourses and practices of development

2. Why and how it is that human life in postcolonial settings has been depoliticized to such dramatic
effect?

2. Biopolitical claims to improve the living condition of the poor function paradoxically to
legitimate the demolition of slum settlements, the very spaces of habitat that many of the Indian poor
people call home, displacing them for infrastructural development projects or other urban renewal
programmes that serve the neoliberal economy. An