"Living animal with the additional capacity for political existence"
The word 'life' in ancient Greek has two meanings 'zoe'(the simple fact of the all living being) and 'bios'(the way of living to an individual or a group).
Bios was previously used more preferable in the political context, then the word 'zoe'
came in to play in the sphere of modernity.
In the sovereign sphere, 'Homo Sacer' is a 'bare life' who can be killed and yet not be able to called 'sacreficed' and furthermore no accuses for the one who permitted that committing homocide.
With sovereignty in its territory, the line has been drawn to exclude the outsider and include the insider as a political element. Because man is a living being that comes with language which separate himself to his bare life and in the same time maintain himself in an inclusive exclusion which lies in the indistictive zone as both an object and a subject of political power.
As i reading the materials, first point i see is city or nation-state in this capitalism world compete in the international level to attract the investment into the country whether for the national interest or the high-ranking elites interest. Then comes the Bre-X that cooperate with Indonesian elites, conjuring itself by crating the dramatization to its own story, then this strategy flash me to more self-familiar context, the celebrities world. Celebrities is a great example for this in my opinion, they tend to generate their popularity through the news or even more 'scandal' because this scandal bring their names in the paper which effectively keep them at the top of the list. Some company had nothing like the Bre-X, they create the imagination of the piles of gold to facilitate their stock market. No offense to the no-talented celebrities nowadays, just like it that they make a scandal to get on the news, to be seen in the media, and to keep money flying into their pocket. The Bre-X create their own 'encouraging' or 'shocking' story to make a
belief in their product to, again, popularized their brand and enlarging
investment. Even this dramatization keep the Bre-X alive longer than it should be but the magical world doesn't last forever, if they don't own the real 'thing'.
"The investment drama of the Bre-X story shows how articulations among globalist, nationalist, and regionalist projects bring each project to life."
According to the global warming which is the hot global issue, the reading implies that we all connected through the air and water and we need to save it. The dichotomy arise between the belief that forest should serve economic and state-administrative interest and the belief that nature deserves protection for itself. The point that relates to our course is that the national park which can create the sense of belonging in that nation-state to confirm their citizenship.
Form both readings, they clarify the perspectives that i've never thought of before...
"Why the sun does set in the sea?
Also at dawn, it does rise up from the sea.
Or is it true, as English think,
That the shape of the earth is like an orange?
And does the sun, standing still, never move?
Amusingly, the earth itself rotates,
Even the three worlds are so huge.
How dull I am not to understand how it can be."
by the Siam interpreter who familiar with the western ideas
The questions about our nature, especially on the astronomical matter, had been asked out of curious by Siamese widely through out the time. The King Mongkut was an expert on the calculation and the concepts of the stars, who happened to raise a new concept against the old belief and support the western concept of the earth.
Clashes between two ideas arose from the two different believes of the world nature; Thai indigenous astronomy based on Traiphum and Western astronomy. This is what happened when two culture widely different in the modernized matter. It's almost like a war that both sides tried to win the argument, and dominated their believes. Luckily, the journey of the king who fighting for his own belief did shown in the experimental day at Wako, after since the old belief for example that the earth was flat was swept away. This is one example of transnational phenomenon that there's relationships in one territory and when another relationship from outside penetrating in, then the different is created and the conflict is possible. The idea of nation-state whether is an offspring of the making of map or vice versa is still questioned.
