Living on Borrowed Time: Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo

Introduction by Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo 1

Part One 13

Conversation I
The credit crunch: an outcome of the Bank's failure, or a fruit of its outstanding success? Capitalism is not dead 15

Conversation II
The welfare state in the age of economic globalization: the last remaining vestiges of Bentham's Panopticon. Policing or helping the poor? 34

Conversation III
This thing called 'the state': revisiting democracy, sovereignty and human rights 45

Part Two 97

Conversation IV
Modernity, postmodernity and genocide: from decimation and annexation to 'collateral damage' 99

Conversation V
Population, production and re-production of human waste: from contingency and indeterminacy to the inexorability of biotechnology (beyond Wall Street) 108

Conversation VI
Secular fundamentalism versus religious fundamentalism: the race of dogmas or the battle for power in the twenty-first century 127

Conversation VII
DNA inscription: a new grammatology for a new economy. From homines mortales to DIY 'post-humans' in the advent of genetocracy 141

Conversation VIII
Utopia, love, or the lost generation 157

Notes 172

Index 191