Deleuze and Law [electronic resource] : Forensic Futures /
Braidotti, Rosi.author.
Colebrook, Claire.author.
Hanafin, Patrick.author.
Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on key legal cases (such as the Terri Schiavo case in the US), political events (such as the post 9/11 internment camp) and new cultural phenomena.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Deleuze and law : forensic futures / Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin -- Legal theory after Deleuze / Claire Colebrook -- The time of law : evolution in Holmes and Bergson / Alexandre Lefebvre -- Rights of passage : law and the biopolitics of dying / Patrick Hanafin -- The Terri Schiavo case : biopolitics, biopower, and privacy as singularity / John Protevi -- Vitalistic feminethics : materiality, mediation and the end of necrophilosophy / Patricia MacCormack -- Locating Deleuze's eco-philosophy between bio/Zoe-power and necro-politics /Rosi Braidotti -- Is there life in cybernetics? : designing a post-humanist bioethics / Joanna Zylinska -- The silent scream--Agamben, Deleuze and the politics of the unborn / Melinda Cooper -- Points of departure : the culture of US airport screening / Lisa Parks -- The spectacle of war : security, legitimacy and profit post-9/11 / Ian Buchanan and Laura Guillaume.
Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on key legal cases (such as the Terri Schiavo case in the US), political events (such as the post 9/11 internment camp) and new cultural phenomena.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Political science.
Political theory.
Modern philosophy.
Critical theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Philosophy of Law.
Political Theory.
Modern Philosophy.
Critical Theory.