CAMPBELL, T. C.

Improper life: technology and biopolitics from Heidegger to

Agamben. Minneapolis: University Minnesota Press, 2011.

Loc. 80-81
Heidegger puts forward his questions and answers about technology more generally
as a way of unearthing a relation between life and techne.

Loc. 98-99
If the biopolitical is riven by technology's inscription in thanatos, then how useful can
it be for writing a "critical ontology of ourselves"?

Loc. 102-103
Foucault locates a possible genealogy of bio-power in bos's capture by the self
through the test.

Loc. 136-137
to the degree we speak about biopolitics today, lurking beneath is a conception of
technology deeply indebted to Heidegger's ontological elaboration of it.

Loc. 198-199
The effect of this transformation is violent: proper writing is torn away from the hand
by the very forces released in fact by the hand.

Loc. 217-218
the condition for communication in the modern period will be precisely this move
from proper to improper, where proper connotes not simply a hand that writes but
what belong to man as properly his own.

Loc. 232-234
we find an implicit alliance between improper writing born of technology and a
political form in wich the identity of the one who writes is that it awards a power to
the collective capable of persuading men and women that they more properly belong
to a collective.

Loc. 330-332
Heideggers reading of proper and improper writing provides us with a paradigm with
which to understand how improper writing dean-chors Being, creating a form of life
enthralled to technology to such a degree that it loses its individual features