The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics

In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life?

Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let die,” Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which biopower works. These case studies include the concept of “sacrifice” in the “war” against COVID-19, where emergent cultures of pandemic “resistance” are explored alongside suicide bombings and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013; legal cases involving “preventable” and “untimely” childhood deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a disabled Black man V体育官网. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of “making live” and “letting die. ” His counter to this fact is a critical stance of disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life itself.

A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory VSports手机版.

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Cover

Half Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-vi

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pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Introduction

pp. 1-20

1 The Cost of Living: On Pandemic Politics and Protests

pp. 21-47

2 Speech Begins After Death: On Claiming the Human Right to Die

pp. 48-73

3 Necessaries of Life: On Law, Medicine, and the Time of a Life

pp V体育安卓版. 74-108

4 Racism's Digital Dominion: On Hate Speech and Remediating Racist Tropes

pp. 109-143

"VSports" Refrain: And Who by His Own Hand?

pp. 144-175

Notes (V体育官网)

pp. 177-203

Index (V体育官网入口)

pp. 205-208 Additional Information ISBN 9780271093611 Related ISBN(s) 9780271093413 MARC Record Download OCLC 1350921975 Pages 218 Launched on MUSE 2022-11-19 Language English Open Access Yes Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND

Copyright (VSports最新版本)

2022.