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The Living from the Dead : Disaffirming Biopolitics Hardback
by Stuart J. Murray
Part of the RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric series
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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.
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
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- ISBN:9780271093413
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780271093413