Beyond biopolitics
Subtitle: essays on the governance of life and death
By: Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, eds
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780822350033; 9780822350170
Subjects: Death; Life (Biology); Political aspects; Biopolitics
Description: Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the economy, and a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. In Beyond Biopolitics, prominent theorists seek to account for and critically engage the tendencies that have informed neoliberal governance in the past and are expressed in its reformulation today. As studies of military occupation, the policing of migration, blood trades, financial markets, the war on terror, media ecologies, and consumer branding, the essays explore the governance of life and death in a near-future, a present emptied of future potentialities. The contributors delve into political and theoretical matters central to projects of neoliberal governance, including states of exception that are not exceptional but foundational; risk analysis applied to the adjudication of "ethical" forms of war, terror, and occupation; racism and the management of the life capacities of populations; the production and circulation of death as political and economic currency; and the potential for critical and aesthetic response. Together, the essays offer ways to conceptualize biopolitics as the ground for today's reformulation of governance. --- Book Description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : beyond biopolitics : the governance of life and death / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse; title: National enterprise emergency : steps toward an ecology of powers / Brian Massumi; title: Human security/national security : gender branding and population racism / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse; title: "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices of profiling / Jasbir K. Puar; title: Strict scrutiny : the tragedy of constitutional law / Sora Y. Han; title: Necrologies, or, the death of the body politic / Eugene Thacker; title: Mnemonic control / Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman; title: Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman; title: Strange circulations : the blood economy in rural China / Ann S. Anagnost; title: Necropolitical surveillance: immigrants from Turkey in Germany / Çağatay Topal; title: From the race war to the war on terror / Randy Martin; title: "Seeing" spectral agencies : an analysis of lin+lam and unidentified Vietnam / Una Chung; title: Here we accrete durations : toward a practice of intervals in the perceptual mode of power / Amit S. Rai; title: Fascia and the grimace of catastrophe / May Joseph; title: Blackness and governance / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.