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Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy.

This is the first section of a talk – see other uploaded clips for the remainder.
With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

Philippe Theophanidis sent the following information to Foucault News:

This lecture by Roberto Esposito is not so much about Foucault than it is about Esposito’s own work. The lecture, which was given at the Occidental College on November 29, 2011, is actually titled “Immunization and Violence”. It is the English translation (by Thimothy Campbell) of a chapter of Esposito’s book Termini della politica. Comunità, immunità, biopolitica first published in 2008. The text of the lecture is available online as a PDF. More detail about it can be found on Philippe Theophanidis’ blog Aphelis.

It remains a very interesting text and one of most succinct introductions there is to Esposito’s philosophical work. And the video on YouTube is one of the rare video recording of a conference or lecture in English by Roberto Esposito.

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